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  1. raiquee

    THE OFFICIAL GARDENING AND PRESERVING CHALLENGE

    Noticed the radishes are starting to bulb up! Going to try transplanting them, as they pooled when it rained. Sooo doing home-made seed tape in fall! Got about 6" of the garden weeded around the onions before the toddler got sand in his flip flop and had a meltdown. Then his baby brother woke...
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    Trespassing?

    We bought our house from the In-laws, and my FIL always listened to what the religious people would say, be pleasant, take their handouts and then recycle them. Well, then we bought the house and they retired. So, this little lovely lady appears on my doorstep. Knock knock knock. I ignore it...
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    THE OFFICIAL GARDENING AND PRESERVING CHALLENGE

    5/10 - Planted about...30ish strawberry plants into my strawberry patch. Also noticed my seeds that I started in a flat outside have started sprouting. Yay! Radishes are getting bigger, as is all the seedlings. Had to take out a baby bunny the other day, was digging up my garden! :somad Where...
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    What did you do to save $ today?

    Hubby bought me a pressure canner!! :weee Which in hindsight was $200, but It's the All American Canner, and it was on sale for $200, and I took the free shipping (even thought I wanted it faster, as it's my mother's day gift...) so I saved $30 on shipping...annnnd It will save us money in the...
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    THE OFFICIAL GARDENING AND PRESERVING CHALLENGE

    Oh, So I thought I would attach pictures of my gardens. These are from last year. Side Garden- I grow "hot" stuff in this one. Toms, Peppers, eggplant, etc. Weed Garden- I grow spring/fall veggies as well as veggies I can't kill no matter what! Beans, squash, cukes, zukes. I had an "Ah-ha!"...
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    THE OFFICIAL GARDENING AND PRESERVING CHALLENGE

    Hey all! I found radish and spinach/arugula seedlings! I am happy cause I was worried about them! I found my sprinkling method to SUCK as far as spacing them right. Next year, doing tape!! (I found a blog that said you could use toilet paper and adhere the seeds on by making a flour/water...
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    THE OFFICIAL GARDENING AND PRESERVING CHALLENGE

    Ahh, I forgot about this thread!! Ok. April 9th, I started seeds inside. Following got planted: 33 Tomato Mariana (paste tom) 15 Grape Tomatos 15 Cherry Tomatos 6 pickling cukes 6 Rosa Bianca Eggplants 6 Bush Baby Zukes (mainly for the ducks) 6 watermelon (sugar baby) 6 Nadia eggplants 6...
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    THE OFFICIAL GARDENING AND PRESERVING CHALLENGE

    Oh, sorry GUYS. Here is a picture of my garden plots, during june of last year before we planted. Here is what I lovingly call the "weed garden" as it was last year... We put up that lattice, and planted about 6 blueberry and one grape plant against it last year. To the left, there is two...
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    THE OFFICIAL GARDENING AND PRESERVING CHALLENGE

    Okay, heres my list.... Spring: Red Butterhead- Skyphos Carrots- Mokum Bok Choy- Joi Choi Radishes- French Breakfast Spinach- Corvair Mesculin Mix- Mild Plant asparagus crowns (6 total) Strawberry plants (25 plants) adding to my strawberry patch Summer: Cucumbers- Pickling- Alibi Cucumbers-...
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    Tom cat repellent?

    A BB gun? ;) I can't say there is anything that will work real good for cats outside, seeing as the products they sell for cats inside don't work real well either!!
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    THE OFFICIAL GARDENING AND PRESERVING CHALLENGE

    May I join the challenge ladies? :) I have two small gardens...one is 12x25 foot....the other is...3x25ish? I have things that come back in the 12x25 (raspberries, blueberries, grapes, strawberries, rhubarb, sage, chives, soon to be asparagus...) I have a lot of goals this year..here they...
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    Immunization Records Question

    Abi) Start on it as soon as you can too. School likes to wait until the last minute to tell you things you need, and I was SCRAMBLING to get in to get ANOTHER tb skin test and read right before I went out for clinicals! Not something I wanted to do when I was doing finals. Also, make a copy of...
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    What are you planning to plant?

    Herbs) Basil Thyme Oregano Dill Chives Rosemary Italian flat leaf parsley Tarragon Sage (from last year) (May do some tea stuff too) Spring garden: Mesculin mix Spinach Lettuce- Buttercrunch, maybe some mini-heads of lettuce carrots- Nantes Radishes - Watermelon radish and french breakfast...
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    what jobs work around kids' school hours?

    You'd be surprised at how flexable retail jobs are. Not the best jobs, but jobs none the less!
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    Immunization Records Question

    Ask your school, but when I had to get immuzination records, I had a HECK of a time. Mainly the doctors office where I got them all said they destroyed my records! :somad I called the state registry and all they had on file was a flu shot 2 years ago. I ended up calling my high school (as...
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    Energy drinks.....

    Wifey- Oh, he buys the off-brands luckily, otherwise i'd kick his bum out. We got a dollar store here and he can usually get them between 1.15-2.00 a can. I like it when he gets the Arizonas tho for a buck. That's hard to argue with. BB- Hubby has a lot of bad habits, like smoking and drinking...
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    Energy drinks.....

    Ok, so my husband has an OBSESSION with energy drinks. I keep telling him it's going to shrink his weenie, but he doesn't listen. :rolleyes: Point being, these things are pricey!! Like...2 bucks a drink! I would love (and he would love) for me to make it at home, but hes not sure I can make it...
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    Attention Sausage Makers!!!

    Oh no, I didn't mean it like that! :lol: I was just thinking of linked sausage and was confused. Then I thought of like Salamis and stuff that they hang individually and got it :) Just a duh moment!
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    Free's piggie thread...new pics p 19

    I am way excitied. 1st- liverwurst. Share recipe. 2nd- are you going to start a new thread, or just continue on this one?
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    Attention Sausage Makers!!!

    http://www.sausagemaker.com/casingaccessories.aspx They are about half way down. Different ones and the pliers to apply them. I had to read your question a few times and go "Huh?" before I got what you were saying! :lol:
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