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I believe you may be referencing Snow peas, Dahlia? These are simply a fragrant, beautiful AND poisonous flower! I have snow peas too and they are all you describe. Stir fry’s the only way we eat them.👍 Mike

About now the sweet pea shoots are real spindly so i decided to fix that now rather than wait another 3 or so weeks (when they get planted out) and really have a mess! Each year it’s like knitting sweaters and quite a chore to keep from damaging the fragile stems while planting. Hopefully this...

Our borough road’s supervisor told me “We have areas where the frost is still 12ft. Deep” so i changed my plan to chop a hole and pour cement around a pole to hold up a beehive. Instead i cut the pole off and welded some junk to it then poured a 5in thick base around the pole. At that point i...

If i didn't know better; id believe the first picture was my younger Brother, George! Mike

The lights can be viewed on Amazon, they come in numerous sizes. I went with this size as the best overall fit in my 3 grow areas. They come in narrow/long versions as well. Previously my “starts” were fueled with HO T-5’s and after a very short time fixtures need parts replaced and bulbs every...

These lights can be configured several different ways. 6 of mine have the driver’s mounted right on the light and are being hung both vert and horiz. 4 of them have the drivers remotely mounted so i could position all the rheostat along the one wall. This gives me full control of each light...

As i finish up this years seed campaign i wanted to say a word about these (new to me) Mars Hydro LED’s. In the past i’ve run much larger Lush led’s; somewhat successfully on garden starts but those dinosaurs are either on or off; no rheostats back then. These new ones can be dimmed from 0 to...

Only 6 - 10/20’s remain in the house now and im happy to get the Early Figwort’s into natural light. I am also excited to see one of them beginning to flower!! I’ll try to get a good picture of the tiny blooms if something worthwhile happens? Mike

Well, the wood is all treated lumber and seems to do pretty well at not “growing” fungus or moss. The white panels are FRP fiberglass panels, like youd build a shower out of. Comes in 4x8 sheets, is easy to work with and last forever. I built the wood frames then lined the insides with the...

Chaos before order! Gimme a week and it will be how i want it! Mike

Drip irrigation has worked very well for us, it last forever, is pretty much maintenance free and is easily customizable to cover any layout. The volume delivered is controllable and exactly on time; day after day! All of these attributes make it fully automatic. I try to get folks to see how...

Each year re-commissioning the Greenhouse is a looked forward to event which is happening right now. It begins by removing all the horizontal and vertical trellis giving me access to all the interior surfaces which are hand washed with a sponge and a bucket of hot soapy water. The next day...

Those are Redwing’s and we get the “sets” from Dixondale in Texas. They are the only Onion i’ve ever seen with an adaption to Lat.65 and do very well for us here at Lat.62 they keep better than Pattersons or any other we’ve tried.

Im sure the bees will utterly detest those! 🙄 Mike

Thanks for the kind words; i’m both honored and saddened though! Honored that someone else is paying attention and saddened; knowing the long, steep hill you’ll be traversing if you truly want to “do better”! 50 years ago we didn’t just decide; “Gee, let’s be weird” but we were driven into this...