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Y'all are funny. And inspiring, so I have to get busy. It's cold (52--that's cold to me) and raining, so it's inside work today. I got a good buy on garlic last week and need to get it peeled and chopped for the dehydrator before it all starts sprouting. Of all the things we grow, I don't...

Take back that dirty word! Hurricanes! Bad word! I can live with the heat and humidity, but I hate hurricanes! Glad to have you both as "neighbors!"

I think I'm a latent self-sufficient person. My husband started bringing it out when we got married 4 years ago. I lived in a zero-lot-line house in the Dallas area, and was considering a condo for LOWER maintenance (wanted free time for hiking, camping and canoeing, hence no yard work). Life...

I like finding ways of making my own stuff, but continue doing it ONLY if my homemade product meets or exceeds the quality or effectiveness of the store-bought stuff. I don't have any experience with the homemade deodorant, so can't comment on the above recipes, but I find Dove very effective...

I should have phrased it differently...I'm east of Houston, about an hour east. Grew up here, moved away for many, many years. Moved back. Started life over. :-) I love raised beds. I couldn't talk my husband into building the garden that way, but his way works, too. I do my herb beds...

I'm on the east side of Houston, but we're probably still close enough to be called neighbors! I have plenty of creativity...just never any time to do it! I always wonder what it would be like to start and finish a project without any interruptions. :)

Oops...I didn't realize you were in zone 9.

Aren't your growing conditions the same as mine? You're in southeast Louisiana on the Gulf Coast and I'm in Southeast Texas, near the gulf, also. We have a walnut tree, and it grows just fine here. Unless I'm mistaken about your general location and your growing conditions, I'd think if we...

I'm coming in kind of late to this thread, but Market Basket is a local grocery chain in my area that contracts with local growers for some of the fruits and vegetables they sell in their stores. What I recall seeing there that was locally produced is okra, butterbeans, corn, peas. They sell...

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I can see already that this forum is going to a bad, bad influence on my work efficiency!

You have no idea! We probably are. I used to laugh at my Daddy...we couldn't go anywhere without him running into someone he was related to, or was related to someone who was related to someone! I remember going to a family reunion when I was about 12. Some lady I'd never seen came running...

Everyone is so friendly here! What a great place!

I've always heard that local honey helped the immune system. My husband kept bees back before I knew him, but we don't have them now. He plans to get back to it in the future. In the meantime, I only buy honey that is local. As for the goldenrod, I recently read about its benefits for...

I think I've found my Tribe!

They must be brothers. Mine leaves his tools leaning against the trees or in the garden. Drives me crazy, knowing that the dew or the rain will rust them, so I pick them up when I see them. My front porch ends up looking like a workshop. Oops...some of that is mine! :lol: I just have to...

I don't have current photos that show how the plants have filled out. I was lucky to even find these photos...my digital filing system isn't very good, to say the least. Mostly herbs and edibles, but there are a few things not edible. The boards on the beds are from lumber milled from a...

Thanks! Someone in my neighborhood put that table on the street for garbage pickup. It had a tile top that was busted out. I was going to salvage the legs or the hardware from it when I had the idea of using it in the garden. My family made fun of me picking up the table (I get those genes...

I love my green grass! You can keep the snow! The bananas are my husband's province, but it seems the stalks full of bananas had produced by August. Very green, not mature, as in the photo. Then we start sweating it out as to whether they have enough time to mature before the weather gets...

Okie-dokie, I have enough posts now to add photos! Here are some pics... Here's part of my herb bed. That's last year's garden...right now it's pretty barren, with only a few things in it. I wish my herb bed looked this good right now! On the other hand, my lavender has taken off from the...