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Thinking safe thoughts and good juju. Hope you get everything locked down in time.

Oh wow! Does he think it has something to do with Agent Orange? My Dad was in the Navy during Vietnam, but got DD’d for fighting with a superior officer. Anyway, the first time I heard anything about Agent Orange was from him. He told me that all sorts of things were being put in their bodies...

That sounds like a great system! Maybe our 4 yr. old will be more willing and able to help out next year. Our 2 older sons have moderate to severe mental disabilities. Big reason why we want to grow some pot, as they are doing better with CBD treatment, and the good stuff is expensive. May be...

Been a long time since I checked in. Let my garden go last month. Got busy with back to school stuff with the kiddos, and didn’t have extra time to spend in the beds. We had a drought and didn’t water either. Can’t believe the cantaloup is still putting on fruit after that amount of neglect...

Cooper's hawk? Doesn't look like a red-tailed hawk to me. Heard an egg-song-esque commotion from my girl's run, and caught a pic of this bird when I went to see if anyone laid. There's times I'm okay with not free ranging my girls, and this is one.

Well, a critter or critters have decided to start chewing up cantaloups in the garden. My chickens get what's left of those, so I guess it works out ok. Lol!

We occasionally see hawks in our neighborhood. But mostly, we have resident Mississippi kites.

Can I save seed from bell peppers that aren't all the way red? My peppers have been struggling to ripen, and the plants are getting pretty heavy with fruit. I just cut the ones that are doing the color change, but most are still pretty green, some have soft sides, and are wrinkly from heat damage.

When I lived in Chattanooga, I found out that some butterflies love poop! I was kind of horrified, but at the same time fascinated by their fascination with it. The swallowtails, I nicknamed "poop butterflies" because I constantly saw them on a fresh pile of dog poo.

Butterflies love our place! We have trouble growing proper milkweed, too, though. We have honeyvine milkweed, which they like just as well, and that really does grow like a weed here. I thought it was bindweed/morning glory at first, but then I saw the flowers and pods. Smells really good, but...

My husband shoots squirrels with his air rifle, and occasionally his slingshot. Boys!

I'm weird, but I actually like squirrels. I know they can be a pain in the ass, but they are also really fun to watch. My Grandpa (may he rest in peace), loved squirrels, too. They would eat right out of his hand. My severely autistic son, I call him Red Squirrel sometimes, because he has...

My poor garden took a hit with the heat. A couple of my cantaloups were sunburned. I hope they're still good.

We are an ADHD, Asperger's, autism spectrum full house. Almost all of us just need to calm the hell down and focus on one thing at a time, but it's hard to do. I'll be very excited to learn about the different strains, grow, and learn how to process in different ways. I've always loved geeking...

That is ingenious! Raising pigs on hemp and cannabis. I bet their prices are high...:lau Sorry, couldn't help myself.

Oh, I know they will have their hand in everyone's cookie jar. How else would they get by? Lol! I don't know that we will go into the business, but the regs they came up with were ridiculous, even for homegrow. No smokeables at dispensaries, a pharmacist on staff, high tax, nothing over 20% THC...

This is sort of off-topic, but in a way related to gardening. I live in Oklahoma, which is right smack in the middle of a big political hooha over the medical marijuana initiative. My husband has been working tirelessly collecting signatures, because he's very pro-natural medicine, and anti...

Oh my gosh! I hope they get them all out soon. That's scary!

My luck is such that I would go to great pains to make this "tape", and end up with sprouts all willy nilly anyways. Lol! But the theory seems sound enough. I'd probably go with maybe 2-3 seeds per dot, and then thin once or twice depending on the germination rate. My last carrot plot had way...

Well, you can buy it, but some people make it. You can use long lengths of toilet paper as your "tape". Apparently, all you do is make a thick flour water paste as a glue and stick the seeds onto the TP spaced to the correct spacing, then fold it over and dry it. Then you lay it out in rows in...