Category: Gardening
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Where is Everyone? It’s beautiful on the River and not a soul in sight. Let’s take a Stroll in the Garden.
The new Peach Tree it was actually from two pits the sprouts were exactly the same size, I decided to twist the two together. A twisted trunk is my goal, but it appears what happened is one became dominant over the other, but in their competition did it make one of them stronger than the…
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Two years ago I planted a Peach Tree from a seed, it’s now beginning it’s third year.
The worm castings (manure) consist of mostly natural nitrogen in a form the plants can use as soon as it comes in contact with the root system. Separating the worms from the scat is an accepted course of action however I have decided to stop separating them.
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Everything is Green, now let’s get back to weeding the garden.
The Pecans are the last to lose their leaves and the last to put them on, finally they have started to engulf the branches.
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Wild Weather in the East, Mild Weather in the West, is there nothing we can do?
The Eastern United States has been taking a beating for the past several years, it’s no secret they are still recovering from Hurricane Harvey, Maria, and Irma.
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Now is the time to plant and wait, or wait and plant?
Bluebirds strip the fruit every year, they don’t wait for them to ripen, green fruit satisfies them.
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When does News become Olds? Is the 24-hour News cycle News worthy?
The 24-hour cycle has created an ocean of people obsessed with the news, the problem is there is not that much new news.
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Why are some birds out today, and not the mammals? Is it possibly a prediction of a different event?
Something is always going on along the slough, most of the time it is a subtle quiet sort of occurrence but always a “what in the heck was that?” moment. This morning was not any different, the female Red Tail Hawk is out and about again under this cloudy grey sky. Hunger is the most…
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Are you losing your passion? Feel like you want to quit? Why not take a break, and change things?
Being an outside guy it’s pretty hard to trek up the stairs to a dreary dark sky, granted the weather in my stretch of the woods is not typically challenging as it is in most of the country lately. One blog I wrote explained my belief that the weather on the West Coast is more…
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I planted Potatoes today, it’s good to be an optimist.
A bright sun greeted me this morning when I rose from bed and climbed the two flights of stairs to where the coffee is. There was frost on the pumpkin even though the temperature was well above freezing 47F (7.2C) with a slight breeze, Skunkpuppy was itching to get outside. I, on the other hand,…
Follow the Fork in the Road 