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    What did you do in the garden today?

    Never heard about seedless butternut squash. I need to look for it. I heard about 55% honeybee colonies died in the past winter, so it's possible there's less bees this year to cause pollination problems. Although we seem to have increase numbers of bumblebees this year.
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    I have a similar zapper to kill gnats around my house plants. Life saver! Haven't tried it for mosquito control yet. Looks like a good idea.
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    Yeah, fungus diseases are tough to fight. Every year, I grow Momotaro tomato which seems rarely having disease issues. It's also early and crack resistant. The flavor are great too. The other tomato types always have some problems, but I still looking for more trouble free ones with good flavor.
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    My black raspberry season is almost over. I think the wild black raspberries in my yard are not very good (no berry flavor and sour), so birds barely touch them and I just feed them to chickens. Not even all chickens like it.
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    I'm trying to use aspirin to prevent tomato diseases. Here's some information...
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    I have the same problem with my garlic too, except for elephant garlic (which is actually leek). Not sure what's the cause. I'm thinking cold and raining spring?
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    What pesticide do you use for Japanese beetles? I don't want to use too nasty stuff, so nothing seems working for Japanese beetles. I applied milky spore in my yard and it worked really good, but it cannot stop the beetles from neighbors' yards. I just use trap and hand catch rest of them. I...
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    I haven't see Japanese beetles yet. I'll get my trap ready this weekend though.
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    My winter squash (Sunshine Hybrid Kabocha) plants are loaded now. And my persimmon tree has flower buds for the first time after 4 years in ground! I'm very excited!
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    No chicken in my flock wants hornworm. All my chickens looked at it and turned their beaks away. They even don't want earth worms. Right now, I get lots of complains about no strawberries for a while and not all chickens love raspberries. They are just too spoiled.
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    Hopefully, the peace would be there for a long time. It must be hard for you and your family. Never heard about melon cucumber before. It looks nice. I guess you have fig wasps there? Then you should have great figs to eat! There are lots of nice figs from middle east. I'm considering to add...
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    The non-stop rain for last 1.5 months caused no strawberries for several days so far. Now it's so hot, some of my young fig plants are fried to death. Water melon plants are struggling too from the cool rain- super hot weather cycle. Most cherries rot and fell with only 3 left on my tree. On the...
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    Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

    Welcome. You are not too far from dheltzel and can get some very nice breeds from him. Check his website: http://welbars.com/
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    Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

    Dennis, just want to let you know my 5y old olive egger from you is still laying 5 eggs per week this spring. Very strong and healthy!
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    Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

    Actually, Brownie was the few brown sexlink chick you made from Wheaten Ameraucana x Cal. grey. At that time, all your PA blacks were boys, so I got her. the I only have her photos in my old computer and need to dig them out. She grew up being mostly black with some brown feathers around her...
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