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What did you do in the garden today?
:lau I prefer to walk around the garden during daylight hours when I can see it. On the other hand, I always find more work that needs to be done. Maybe I would be better off enjoying the garden at night when I can't see anything! -
What did you do in the garden today?
:clap :love That's great! Love to hear success stories. And yes, what works for he works for me. Happy Wife, Happy Life! -
What did you do in the garden today?
:lau Yeah, well, my birthday was like 4 months away! It's one of those presents like the Christmas I got a new extended showerhead from Dear Wife that was lower, I guess, for my convivence. I did not realize that the showerhead was too high for my comfort! But I was wrong! Anyways, I guess I... -
What did you do in the garden today?
I'll have to look into that. Dear Wife just got me a Ninja Air Fryer for my birthday, and it has a dehydrate mode on it. So, maybe I already have the expensive part of that process. It would be nice to have a number of options of what to do with excess eggs. Thanks. -
What did you do in the garden today?
:idunno I'm happy with just one use of the pickling juice from the can of pickled sliced beets or leftover juice from a jar of regular pickles. I don't trust my sanitation is impeccable. Also, since there is no cooking or heating in the making of these pickled eggs by just packing a jar with... -
What did you do in the garden today?
Never tried. Dear Wife sells most of our excess eggs to friends. But we keep the smaller eggs for ourselves. Every once in a while, we have enough for a batch of hard-boiled eggs and then I will pickle some. -
What did you do in the garden today?
When we have excess eggs, I like to make pickled eggs simply using a can of sliced pickled beets... I just pack a jar with the eggs, sliced beets, and the pickling juice from the can. No recipe to worry about. Pickled eggs ready in a day or two. I like the pickled eggs and the sliced beets... -
Show Me Your Pallet Projects!
...up the job and make it a lot easier. For anyone considering their options, here is a comparison between the HAPT50SP on sale and the AP700 I own. ****************************** Here’s a side-by-side comparison of the 3PLUS HAPT50SP and your Air Locker AP700, both solid punch nailers built...- gtaus
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Show Me Your Pallet Projects!
Yeah, I don't prune my determinate Roma tomatoes, for example. But I over pruned my indeterminate cherry tomatoes last year. Good idea to prune those lowest branches on both types to keep them off the ground.- gtaus
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Show Me Your Pallet Projects!
It's a small setback. I have 9 plants in that bed, and 4 of them were topped off by the deer. But those plants are still alive. :fl Trying to make lemonade out of lemons, I am thinking now I will have tomatoes coming into harvest at different times this year. Staggered harvesting might work to...- gtaus
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Show Me Your Pallet Projects!
:tongue Speaking of pruning, last year I watched a YouTube video and learned how to remove the suckers from my tomato plants. So, I removed all the suckers and only had the main stem growing up the string. I did not like the end results of the super thin tomato plant. I did get tomatoes, but...- gtaus
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Hügelkultur Raised Beds
:barnie Deer in the Gardens Again - More Damage Had to play a little catch up today on getting things done quickly. One of my hügelkultur raised beds has nine SuperSweet 100 vine tomatoes in it. I have a wooden trellis frame up and around that bed. I made some wood framed panels with... -
Show Me Your Pallet Projects!
:barnie Deer in the Gardens Again - More Damage Had to play a little catch up today on getting things done quickly. One of my hügelkultur raised beds has nine SuperSweet 100 vine tomatoes in it. I have a wooden trellis frame up and around that bed. I made some wood framed panels with...- gtaus
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Show Me Your Pallet Projects!
Good to hear from you. There are lots of pallet wood project ideas on this thread and I am sure some of them will be of interest to you. I really appreciate when others can offer pallet projects that they are working on. I'm doing mostly garden projects, which I share, but it's mainly more of...- gtaus
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Show Me Your Pallet Projects!
...thinking about options I still have available to me. Here is a little something I learned from Copilot when I posed the bean question to it... ********************************* You're in Zone 3B, which means your growing season is short and your first frost typically hits around...- gtaus
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Show Me Your Pallet Projects!
:idunno Not sure what you mean. I live in northern Minnesota, zone 3B. I have never heard of a cover crop for the summer and growing something in the fall. As far as I know, we only have one growing season here. But I could be wrong because I really don't have much experience gardening. Unless...- gtaus
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Show Me Your Pallet Projects!
...buckets of pallet wood (or any other safe lumber) bits and pieces to use for something. IMHO, it's better than burning the wood in a fire pit. *************************** HT-marked pallet wood is generally safe for garden use, including hügelkultur beds, as long as it's clean and...- gtaus
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Hügelkultur Raised Beds
...buckets of pallet wood (or any other safe lumber) bits and pieces to use for something. IMHO, it's better than burning the wood in a fire pit. *************************** HT-marked pallet wood is generally safe for garden use, including hügelkultur beds, as long as it's clean and... -
Hügelkultur Raised Beds
Thanks. I decided against using the plastic to make a ring around some soil to plant in. Instead, I just dug out a hole in the grass clipping on the mound put a couple shovels of compost in the hole, then put some squash plants in the compost. I think that will work fine. If not, I like the... -
Hügelkultur Raised Beds
Exactly, it's a good hobby for me at my age. Keeps me active and out of other trouble. I like working with pallet wood because I can custom make my raised beds, or planters, to any size or height I want. I have made a number of pallet wood flower planters for Dear Wife, all different sizes...