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  1. wooden_pony

    Any uses for sheep fleece?

    You could always put it in a mesh bag, like the white ones you can buy for socks and elicate small item to wash them in. Hang it in those bags for the birds to use as liner for thier nests. That is what we use to do.
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    Name that flower.

    :lau :yuckyuck :lau
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    Name that flower.

    Flower one is a Rose. Number two I have no clue. It looks like an albino pineapple with a curly top :D But I know it is the center of a flower. Both are beautiful pictures. Did you take them Beefy Burt?
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    What Are You Planting Today, This Week, This Month?

    Today I planted..... Sugar Dots sweet corn. They have been growing for the last two weeks in my garage. Melting Sugar snow peas Bush, Blue Lake Beans Alaska Peas Jack O' Lantern Pumpkins Mini Jack Pumpkins Gold Rush Squash Dixie Hybrid Squash Zucchini Black Beauty Eggplant Red Sweet...
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    My soil building questions and issues. Am I loving my dirt too much!?

    Hey Rob, Summer rain?? What is that? :hu :gig Just teasing you Pat it is just funny because we do not get rain here in CA during the summer time.
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    My Crabapple Trees In Bloom

    Hummmmm so pretty Miss!
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    Corn and Pole Beans.

    Yeah the mini jack pumpkins grow UP the corn. They do fine since the pumpkins are so small. We grow them for the kids to bring to school and share with their friends. One plant per corn stalk. Yes silkie that was more then likely your problem. I am able to grow the long season corn so it gets...
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    Corn and Pole Beans.

    Jordan, I just put them in a bowl of water overnight. Similar to how you soak dried beans before you cook them. Soaking helps them sprout faster. You can grow what ever you want up the corn. You just have to make sure what ever grows up the corn the vegtables does not get to heavy for the...
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    Corn and Pole Beans.

    Thank you mamaspider, I could not remember what it was called. I had him add winter squash to his corn so he would have the three sisters. :D
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    Corn and Pole Beans.

    OK Jordan here is what I do and it has worked really well for me.... Soak corn seeds overnight and then plant them. After a week or two, when the corn is at least 4 inches high, soak and then plant the pole bean seeds plant about 6 inches away from the corn. We also plant winter squash or...
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    Twisting Weed

    OH Spanish Needles! We were just talking about them last night. They are not nice, they can twist into the fur of an animal and then burrow into thier skin. Our sheep were the worst! We would have to cut the skin on the sheep to get them out. They are very pretty in the Spring when all the...
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    Corn and Pole Beans.

    Yes Jordan we do it all the time here. You have to plant the corn first or the beans will take over the corn stalkes. Make sure you plant the corn close so they can pollinate with eachother easier. I normally plant a bean on every other corn stalk because I plant the corn so close together...
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    My cool weather garden

    Very nice Miss! I have to get out and till my gardne but my tiller is like fighting with a bull it is so big LOL I clean the whole yard on Sunday just to get ready for planting. I need to get out there before it hits 90 this weekend yucko :(
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    Looking for Woolly Thyme cuttings

    tiffanyh, I have TONS of woolly thyme growing here at my place in between the flagstones. I was just looking at it today thinking it needed a "hair" cut. Let me know if you want some I do not mind wrapping it up in damp towles and a ziplock baggie and shipping it to you. :)
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