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    Ancient apple tree survival help

    Well. Define ancient. These were planted when I was a young teenager. I'm 67 now. I never heard anything about the trees or any apples they produced. I had forgotten about them. My dad passed over 20 years ago, so I know that no one has so much as looked at them since. They're in a heavily...
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    What Did You Do In The Garden?

    More direct answer for you. Keets are the name for baby Guinea fowl. Like kits for rabbits, or kids for goats.
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    Watermelons

    :lol::lol::lol: Hope those melons do good enough to make all this worthwhile. I didn't know they even add tx to out of state orders! Making me lose faith in my fav local seed company. Glad to help you northerners any way I can.....gotta make sure you stay up there so you don't invade us again.
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    Is anyone else stress gardening?

    Fantasy gardening indeed! I sometimes live in fantasy land and even I can't dream THAT big! Although that sounds exactly the way some city folk imagine life to be like, out here in the country.
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    Watermelons

    @seedcorn I called Park's this morning. Spoke to a customer service rep named Steve, very pleasant young man. He was flabbergasted at the error. This is their first report of the problem. SOLUTION: 1. If you have placed the order CALL their toll free# 1-800-845-3369. If the order has not been...
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    Watermelons

    I researched this further. The information I gave is from their 2020 catalog. Page 89. And you can see (from my posted picture) that the price is 3.50/pkg of 10 seeds. However, the same catalog, page 11 DOES list them as 5.95 for a pkg of 10. I discovered this after business hours today...
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    Watermelons

    WHAT?!. Park has been in business for over 150 years. They're a stand-up company. Do you refer to shipping costs included? Yeah, it's $3 whether you buy one pkg or a bunch. That sucks. But the base price is $3.50 for 10 of those melon seeds. They're not cheap but they're fair. That was from the...
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    Watermelons

    Never tried these.....but just saw in the Geo. W Park catalog. Maybe worth a spot to try? The top picture is the Mambo.
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    Watermelons

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    PI DAY Pie!!!

    I made Himalayin possum stew tonight. Because I found him a layin in the road.
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    Xerocles head in the clouds and feet firmly in the mud.

    I finally did it. My garden is officially begun. I planted the Blackberry, I planted the blueberry. And I planted sugar snap peas and lettuce. Oh yeah, and cilantro. The indoor plants have me a little worried. Okay, okay, everything about this has me a little worried. But more specific, a few of...
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    Talk to me about "no till" gardens

    I'm not being an A$$ here. It just struck me as funny. You don't disturb more than 10%of the soil below the surface. The earth is 8000 miles in diameter. That means you never disturb more than 800 miles deep? I want too see your tiller. Was that supposed to be 10 inches?
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    Questions to Ponder

    It's been a long time since I did much on facebook. But I thought if you "unfollowed" someone, you no longer SAW their posts? So the rest of the world will see her pitiful attempt at your caricature, (unfortunate), at least YOU won't be subjected to it? Covid 19. IMHO, BS. All forms of the flu...
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    Xerocles head in the clouds and feet firmly in the mud.

    I guess it's safe to say my garden is progressing. Nothing IN it yet, but some prepwork done. Some tomatoes and peppers in a germination flat. The bug patrol (runnner ducks) supposed to arrive today. So they should be big enough to start their job by the time the bugs get going. Graph paper...
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    Xerocles head in the clouds and feet firmly in the mud.

    ?? I undestood it was easy? Drake willl have curly tail feathers? Is that wrong?
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    Xerocles head in the clouds and feet firmly in the mud.

    This is purely academic, since I am not even able to sex sex-link chickens....but are ducks harder to sex at hatching than chicks? Just wondering why I was unable to order sexed. I don't care at all about fertile eggs; besides Runners are notorious NON broody anyhow. So why keep a bug eating...
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    Xerocles head in the clouds and feet firmly in the mud.

    Ok. The runner ducks are officially ordered. Couldn't get sexed. Wanted 3 hens. Ordered 5 straight run. Be in on the 13th of March. Any bets on how many drakes I end up with?
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    Xerocles head in the clouds and feet firmly in the mud.

    The tub is moved. Well, 99.9%. Done in the rain. Slaves? You mean they worked, without pay, even when they were too tired. For someone else (in this case the ducks)? Yep, that kinda describes it. HEY!! I LIKE your idea! Screw the ducks. I'm gonna build it up with blocks high enough to build a...
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    Xerocles head in the clouds and feet firmly in the mud.

    I started moving the old bathtub for the ducks today. It had been sitting for so many years it had settled a few inches into the ground. And vines and roots had begun to claim it. So I had to dig it out. It was about 300 ft from the garden. And weighs about 350lbs. I know how the Egyptians felt...
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    sunny south NJ

    Welcome from South Carolina. Last year was my first attempt at container gardening. it was a flop. Hmmm. Similar to former attempts at "in the ground" gardening. But I'm stubborn and don't know enough to just quit. Come on in and join us in failed attempts-or laugh at our foibles and try and...
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