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Plantago a go-go
This discussion will be about plantain, and I don’t mean bananas. If you have been in grassy areas lately, you might have...
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What to choose
I knew someone who loved tomatoes as long as they were round, medium-sized (or large but not too large) and exactly red....
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How to make pickles
First of all, there was a committee meeting. The members of the committee were chosen by the pickle captain, who is...
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Gardening in containers
Not every ardent gardener has space for a garden, so clever humans along the way discovered container gardening. I’ve seen elaborate vegetable...
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Mint to be
Back in the first century, our pal Pliny the Rascal, philosopher and observer of nature, claimed in his Naturalis Historia that massaging...
HavingREELFun
Love is in the air, as the opening day of modern gun deer season was 11/13/21. Big day for some people in our area...
HavingREELFun
This week’s photo is all smiles because of my good friend Mike the Fly Guy with Mike`s fly fishing guide service.
Nagela Rasul from Dallas,...
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Planting potatoes early
“Oops!” was the first word of the report by Lou, also known as Al, head of the Potato Subcommittee, to the Food...
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We could call it Eureka Silverbeet
There is no Hungarian chard or Greek chard. There is a town in County Somerset, England, named Chard, so...
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Hello hügelcultur
Here’s what happened. I had begun reclaiming two beds overrun by spearmint by gouging out eight or more inches of soil and rocks...