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    Official SS Poll: What is your primary reason for gardening?

    true, dry beans do take up space to grow and do need picking and shelling but they are not that hard to do. i use them as a cover crop (which at times fails if i don't get around to weeding them soon enough), but i also grow rather wimpy bush beans that if i would instead grow pole beans they...
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    2025 Resolutions

    i have continued regrets about getting rid of some old paperwork. don't give in to these modern bits of ideas about how sane people should live. be strong. you'll need it to move those boxes again sometime...
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    What are your go-to tips for making the most of your harvest each season?

    sometimes it pays off nicely to have scattered some radish and turnip seeds around. yesterday when walking by the cosmo patch which i'd also put in some extra radish and turnip seeds i spied some reasonable looking radishes and pulled one of them out to bring in for a snack. it was rather hot...
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    the little wild kingdom

    the weather forecast is telling me that today is a good day to putter about inside: " A slight chance of rain and snow showers. Increasing clouds, with a high near 44. Breezy, with a northwest wind 17 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. " while they may...
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    Coffee's Ready, Come and Sit on the Porch

    whuh!? top 6-7 acres of got thru?
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    Memes That Make You Giggle

    it's one of those myths like growing up and Santa Claus (sorry if this is a spoiler for some people). there is no proof in my observational experience that growing up ever happens to anyone.
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    the little wild kingdom

    for those who don't care about computer stuff and/or don't wanna know you can skip this post... :) otherwise i now assume you have given consent to be geeked at a bit about what's up... i run Linux and i did my once in a great while update of my computer system and upgraded my Debian stable...
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    the little wild kingdom

    finished back corner as good as i felt like it today. needs a bit more fine tuned weeding but i'll be back out there next week so i can do that then. nice day out in the mid-60sF but pretty windy.
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    the little wild kingdom

    hahaha! yep, it's a good thing i enjoy gardening... :) if i didn't i'd have gotten out of here years ago somehow. i forgot to mention the field to the south that they replanted with grasses which has been blowing tumbleweed like chunks of grass that has seeds in it which is getting caught by...
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    the little wild kingdom

    well, err, ... :) the small garden i need to weed is the least effort thing i'll need to do, after that i have several projects that i'd like to do that probably won't get done but we'll see what happens. they are old gardens with rocks that need to be redone because so many weeds are growing...
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    What's for dinner?

    took some chow mein noodles out of the freezer this morning so they were ready to be warmed up for dinner. worked out perfect for me. :)
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    What's for dinner?

    nummy turkey! :)
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    Memes That Make You Giggle

    i find the term standard deviants amusing...
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    the little wild kingdom

    tomato garden mostly done other than filling in the trench all the way, but i have a neighboring garden with some weeds in it that i can use that same trench so leaving it open for now until i get to that one - possibly will be able to get it done tomorrow. seeing plenty of worms in this garden...
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    Memes That Make You Giggle

    humidity?
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    the little wild kingdom

    i could get outside for some dirt therapy today for a while and start in on getting the tomato garden cleaned up. tomorrow will be even nicer weather (warmer and not so windy) that i hope to be able to finish it - that would be nice. :) Saturday the forecast is for rains and into the low 60sF...
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    Coffee's Ready, Come and Sit on the Porch

    oh but it was so purty yesterday with sunshine and sparkles!
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    What's for dinner?

    today was mushroom and onion pizza for lunch so dinner will likely be some warmed up veggies we cooked up last night.
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    Are we living our dream?

    i keep asking Mom to not buy junk and bring it home but she does anyways. i try to avoid it and not eat it when it is here but it being here is a challenge i sometimes fail.
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    WHAT ARE YOU CANNING TODAY?

    oh man, don't get me started... i pretty much cannot garden with or around Mom for very long because she'll start in on things and no i'm not incompetent, etc. so... yeah... i'm already revved up and i'm not continuing this rant because it would be as long as this website (or i feel sometimes...
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