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the usual progression is to do your gardens for vegetables and then to put in rows of fruit trees/shrubs, nuts and other forage trees (nitrogen fixers) scattered around in the right proportion, by the time the trees get big enough to shade out the vegetable gardens you can also trim some of them...

yes, for us and tulips the fence we put up around the gardens out back have meant the difference between keeping the tulips going and not. the price for the fence was probably about $300 20-25 years ago. sadly the fencing used was not really the right kind and also the poles weren't either...

looking at the upcoming weather this afternoon i decided i should probably get outside and mow. luckily i can get that done in an hour and a half. this being my 2nd outing i persisted and did not take a break and got it done, but i was lecturing myself the last half hour to be careful because...

yo doofus...

<makes popcorn>

yes.

sadly RIP, but with a nickname like Mushroom i was always hoping i'd get a chance to say hi to him at some point also because someone said he might have had some of Robert Lobitz's records... now i just have to make up stories in my own head. :)

you certainly have the presentation and cooking skills for doing it but there is the business side of things that get many creative people in trouble. i think that is also a part of what a culinary school would teach (or i would hope it does!). :)

hardware cloth cages, but they're a pain in the butt to do.

a term to look up and think about mushroom alcohol...

i'm glad it's persisted for you. :) i've had it here now about 22yrs. i like garlic chives and green garlic as much as the cloves. there's no such thing as too much for me, but Mom doesn't eat it very often any more and she also isn't using it in cooking very often so i end up giving a lot...

there are different kinds of chard. try the multicolored blend and see if you like any of them instead. it may take some time to mellow. it depends a lot upon how much of what you put down and if you mixed it and how much rains you've had and what the subsoil is like and ... always so may...

try chard instead sometime. :) beets here were a good indicator crop for me and soil quality - at first i could not get them to grow very well, but after amending some gardens and improving the organic matter and worm counts they started giving a better result. however, once the groundhogs...

i don't think it really matters that much to the beans, but the garlic will not do great if it gets overgrown.

i like a desktop computer where when i'm done with it i can go do something else and not carry it around with me. the screen is much bigger and also i can control the software that's on it.