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    Any Home Bakers Here?

    I’m planning to make some lemon jello loaves, lemonade, and some banana bread if I feel up to it/have time. And steak, which reminds me I need to get that out of the freezer!
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    I tried some of the Swiss Chard in a salad for the first time. Definitely need to grow that again; now that it’s established it seems to be doing well too. I don’t think I’ll be getting much if any more lettuce this summer - I did a harvest of the Brentwood to go with the Chard, and the green...
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    It looks more like a Giant Leopard Moth to me. Still a pest, admittedly. It is pretty though!
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    I wish I could get garlic to grow, that sounds like an amazing bread dip. :drool
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    Stories like yours are why I’ve avoided buying seeds from Amazon so far. :oops: If it helps for next year I believe Fedco carries that variety.
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    prayer warriors (following Jesus Christ, everyone welcome)

    Yeah I’m not super fussed if he gets kicked out of the US, just that the guy doesn’t get brutally murdered in Bangladesh. No one deserves that.
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    prayer warriors (following Jesus Christ, everyone welcome)

    A member of the church I follow on YouTube has an immigration hearing coming up in a couple months; his current situation is not great, and it will get worse if he’s sent back ‘home,’ please pray for his safety and well-being.
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    Harvested another handful of peas, I think the rest will stay on the plants for seed. The babying under the cloche appears to have helped, my squash plant is starting to bloom. I’m a little surprised, given it’s only about six inches across total!
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    What is the leafy green on the bottom?
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    The Honey Factory

    I got curious and did a quick search, found this. Has anyone actually tried it? I’m assuming the various miticides work better or no one would use them, but with all the supply chain shakeups over the last few years I thought it might be useful information if it works.
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    Feeding Wild Birds

    The barred owls were having a lengthy conversation today. This is the first time I’ve had confirmation that I still have more than one of them in a while.
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    Dropped down to the 60s overnight and isn’t supposed to top mid-70s for the next few days. I put the cloche back over the squash plant. At this rate it’s going to stay there until it gets too big to fit under it. :hmm
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    Extra toe

    Is she a silkie? I believe those are supposed to have extra toes, it’s just a facet of the breed.
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    Harvested another tiny handful of peas this morning. Until this year I didn’t realize just how much of a water hog my peas were, they’ve usually done decently well but this year they have been so happy with the near-constant rain and their planter is the only one drying out despite daily...
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    Your 2025 Garden

    I snuck out before the heat hit this morning and grabbed some lettuce. It’s definitely bolting but it didn’t taste too bitter yet. I also noticed leaf miners in one of my kale pots. I couldn’t figure out why it was only that one but it’s the only single pot in that area. The big planters all...
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    .5 oz of sage harvested today, .9 oz of tarragon, I thought I measured the kale I harvested too but I guess not. 🤔😅 Didn’t get to the lettuce before the heat hit. I also saved back the ends of some of the tarragon stems for an experiment; I buried the ends of two branches in damp soil and then...
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    Favorite "meal in a jar" canning recipes

    If you have a crockpot, take the bones, skin and any other bits of the chicken you don’t want to eat and stuff them in the crockpot and cover them with water. Cook it for about a day and then filter out the solid bits to make stock. (I admit I don’t know if or how well it could be canned, I...
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    Feeding Wild Birds

    Saw the female hummingbird this morning while I was out harvesting herbs.
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    What does everyone do with their kale? I tried some of the smaller leaves off mine today. I was going to use it in salad initially but now that I’ve had it raw I’m thinking cooking it with some garlic and butter might be better, it tastes like slightly-more-bitter broccoli. 🤔 Also how well...
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    I had that same reaction when I saw a Golden Digger Wasp last year. 😆 But it’s apparently a good bug, and only stings when provoked, which I was in no way interested in doing! Speaking of good bugs, I need to have some words with the hover flies. They’re slacking; I saw some aphids on my pea...
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