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    Quiz: 7 Surprising Things Hiding in Your Kitchen That Your Garden Will Love

    7 for 7. I try to keep things in the house for the garden.
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    Coming Home

    Welcome to Sufficient Self. It's nice to have you here.
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    Organic gardening 2025

    Okay so my husband said that I am referring back to motherhood. That's why I am cradling the pumpkins.🤣🤣
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    Organic gardening 2025

    I'm actually thinking that after I get enough of the cradles made I can make a trellis for the vines and just try to make sure that the pumpkins sit on the cradle. I'm just basically experimenting with the cradles and maybe the trellis could be for a different variety. I grew a pumpkin that was...
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    Organic gardening 2025

    They take too long to ripen on the ground so I am doing an experiment with the cradles.
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    Organic gardening 2025

    My first of many pumpkin cradles. It's about 16 1/2 inches tall and 17 1/2 inches long
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    Newbie

    SNOW=S@@@ NO ONE WANTS. Compliments from my oldest daughter 😁
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    Can You Survive a Gardening Winter Without Buying Seeds?

    1.c, 2.a, 3.a, 4.c, 5.b, 6.a, 7.a, 8.a, 9.c, 10.c. I don't really care about looking at catalogs so I prefer to buy in store.
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    Newbie

    No, I'm positive it's not the same lady LOL.
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    Newbie

    He will be driving a semi truck. Delivering lumber and possibly windows.
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    Newbie

    My husband had a job interview today with Sierra Pacific and they said they will contact him on Monday. He will start at 30 an hour for 30 days and then go to 31.50.
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    Newbie

    My chickens decided to go try to dig out all the potatoes in the big pallet bed but I put some sticks in the small one so they attempted to dig those up but they gave up.
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    Newbie

    Even though it's not quite garden season I went ahead and planted the potato seeds from last year.
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    Newbie

    I can remember when we were going to visit my husband's family in Hanford and OH what a nightmare that was. The fog was so thick you probably couldn't cut through it with a chainsaw. I'm good with staying at home on the bad days unless my husband is home and then he can drive, that's why he's a...
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    Newbie

    I've just been getting rain and wind. The mountain areas North of us are fairly clear. Donner pass is almost always shut down or at least people are stuck putting on chains. I tell everyone that I might not have been born in California but I was raised here and we don't know nuttin about that...
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