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No corn this year.

Raccoon is raiding my entire garden while I sleep now. It WILL NOT enter that trap. I may have to move on to something more drastic. All my raspberries gone. Dug up my new raspberry plants. Digging in all my garden beds now. Dug up several fertilizer stakes from various fruit trees. What I...

Creami? Scapes? Hmmmm... It's all Greek to me. 😂

My guess is June Bug.

Just had a young family out to visit. Had a lot of fun with the kids outdoors. I was cleaning off my porch before they arrived and pulled the papasan cushion off of the lower cushion on the frame. I was too busy to stop and take photos, but as I pulled this very large and heavy cushion off, a...

Grind into powder in a processor if you want more calcium released sooner. Feed to chickens and sprinkle over garden soil. It's a fabulous long-term calcium additive that will benefit for years to come for such a small amount of work.

Put the traps on your mean neighbor's property? 😂

Yes, all the time. However, I stink at getting things to root, so I have no good advice. Someday I hope to be able to make a good go of it.

Oh, gophers... I don't miss them at all! Everything we planted had to have a cage around the roots.

It's gorgeous! I've also read that duckweed is an entirely edible, high-protein, human food source. Great for during times of food shortages!

" 'Splain, Lucy!" 😊

They are really pretty. I hope you get a few years out of them, because they are lovely! Pallets are harder to come by for me than they were before the pallet craze hit. But I got a few projects in before they disappeared, at least. LOL

Here's what I was told about bitterness in blackberries. I ought to be an expert by now... 😂 It's in the core, for the most part. That's why raspberries aren't bitter, they are tart when unripe. Not enough water. Not enough sun. Too many berries on one plant stretch resources. Not left on...

I've wondered the same thing. Is your friend planting 'burpless' cucumbers? Those are the only ones that do not have a bitter note for me. They have low cucurbitacin content, which is the chemical responsible for the bitter taste in cucumbers. It is naturally found in the entire family of...

On another blackberry note. I don't like the bitter quality that plagues so many blackberries, and I find that the wild ones tend to be more bitter. But a couple of years ago I decided to tend to some of the wild ones as a test. So many friends said that they get sweet berries from the wild...

Yup. Took me about 3 years after moving from California to go from the first pic to the second.

I'm on my 3rd of 4 days off from my full-time job. Last month's PTO, I took time off to work in the garden and, instead, spent half my time dealing with replacing a refrigerator. This month's PTO I spent half my time dealing with a busted water line. I'm a little afraid to ask for PTO next...

Wow. I know what you mean about the blackberries! Here, where the pastures were overgrazed by a prior tenant's cattle, the blackberries took over and were solid canes over 3 acres. I have no idea how you'd get rid of them, other than spraying the whole lot and killing everything. They...

I was spraying along the house night before last and walked right into a 5' black snake. I said hello and kept working around it. They are so pretty and good to get those mice that keep finding my house!

I don't know definitively about the grape vines, but I've never seen one kill a tree in the way English ivy can. I don't think the tendrils turn into trucks that grow and choke. If they are wild grapevines, I have many of those here. They are not worth cultivating as far as I've been able to...