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There is some smoke in the air ... not too bad yet ! :rolleyes:

Baymule... In order to get a price quote, I would need your address. So, PM me your address. Also, the tree is now in a 2 1/2 gal pot with the soil that the tree grew up in . I did a fair amount of pruning to it already, but I could prune it down some to stiffen the soft upper branches for...

Bay... Bay... since you are now treeless in your front ... I had to take out a Japanese maple tree ,2 1/2 years old , 5' tall yesterday to make room for a air conditioner. It is green leafed and will grow to about 15' tall and spread at the top to about 15'. I potted it, and if you want it...

Baymule... I feel your pain :hugsas I have had severe arthritis in both of my ancles as well as my back for years. I have used all of the recomonudations posted here as well as many prescriptions from doctors and well as advice from my brother who was a pharmacist working at a major university...

Alasgun... I built 7 raised beds of varying sizes using 200- 800 lb. boulders as retaining walls. No cement was used to hold them in place. I filled them with dirt that I dug to form a meandering creek bed, then amended them with peat moss, fine mulch from forest floor, horse manure , lawn...

On our Cal. ranch, our front yard was over an acre. When we had a drought and killed the grass, I let it stay dead. I gave away the lawn motor. I then used a tractor to disc the former lawn all winter and spring to kill off any sprouted seeds, then I planted alfalfa instead to supplement feed...

Go for it in spades , I have nothing to loose here but everything to gain ( keep in mind that I DO NOT want to increase the mole population as they burrow through fern roots and kill them) ....... :hu :hu

I had to stop growing vegetable crops here at our current home due to the fact that this 22 year old entire subdivision ( over 100 homes) was built on a swamp land. (I gardened organically at our Cal. 20 acre horse ranch). The developer brought in truckloads of soil as fill in order to build...

Going back a half century, I worked at a major University and I was dating a lady that worked at a large agricultural research farm. They had 11 people with PHDs in chemistry, physics, geology, etc.. They had worked on roundup for 18 years BEFORE it was put on the market . I talked to them...

We have seen many posts for benefits of worms as well as how to make them happy , healthy and reproduce. So, I was wondering what makes worms unhappy, unhealthy and not reproduce so that we DO NOT inadvertently cause their demise? :th:idunno

I too am a cal. escapee !!! :weee After living through a captain moonbeam as well as gruesome as governors one has to stop the madness and pack up, sell out and leave the comm uneistic state to save our sanity. :old You see flowerbug... my family had to flee the Russian communist...

My post was a misprint of my finger hitting the wrong key... it should be 2035! Thank you digitS for catching my typo misprint. :he :thumbsup

When we still lived in Cal. , they built hundreds of huge windmills in the windy areas of the coast range. We lived more inland from there. My brother lives in the Napa Valley and we visited him and his wife on most holidays, so we passed many of them going and coming home. It was rare indeed...

Dirtmechanic... our electric company is Clark Public Utilities , they own and operate a number of hydroelectric dams as well as an array of solar panels for show and publicity purposes.Last week, I talked to their customer rep. at length and he stated that their solar panels produce a very small...

Flowerbug... when is the last time that you priced solar panels for you home ? As of today, we did for ours ... our monthly electric bill average for last year from our electric company currently is $96.97 / month. The solar company quoted a financed solar panel array on our house that would...

Happy birthday dirt mechanic :cool::weee:thumbsup

If you want to get ducks for you SIL that are egg laying machines ... get the Khacki Cambell ducks as they are the most prolific egg layers that even surpass the White Leghorn chicken. Years ago, I purched a dozen split run ducklings but kept a trio ( 2 hens and a drake) the rest we ate... top...

What type of quail do you raise and how many do you have ? How many eggs (each one ) of your quail lay per year to produce such bounty ?

Farmerjan and Seedcorn are spot on ... after spending 5 months in hospitals and assisted living, today my wife drove me to Home Depot to buy some plants ( I can't drive anymore and I can slowly get around in a walker or crutches ). At the nursery dept. there, we met a fellow elderly (...