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This morning we had the first very light frost on the car roofs. The dozen plants that I planted that originated from Madagascar last spring for the garden tour are all toast and look like a pile of mush. :eek:

There are millions of acres in the arid far West and South West ( think of wroadrunner and whiley covote play there ) where fruit and nut trees just will not grow, if they do and produce fruit, the crops are too costly to produce to be economically viable as water and labor is very expensive...

For the ones there is no hope for ... they be gone pronto :smack :smackfor the sake of and better attitude of the rest of the employees. :woot :)

One of our daughter's friend from high school, breeds AKC Pit Bulls, and they are HUGE, like her male weighs in at 105 lbs. His body looks like a bull dog. She sells many puppies to Australia, Europe, Russia, China, Viet Nam, and Hong Kong. Price tag for a puppy with a Vet. health...

My son is now in charge of research building maintenance of the lower campus of Oregon State University, the maintenance contract had expired with another maintenance company so my son also took over their entire staff ( they would be without a job if they chose not to leave the other company's...

Thistle... you may be aware that quite a few feral horses carry Draft Horse genes. In the 1960's when I started to work for UCD Veterinary Medicine Dept. ... we got a shipment of 39 mustang mares from a very wild range in N. Montana for a PhD. research project. 2 of the mares were older...

On our ranch in Central California, I had a 6' tall cyclone fence on our front of the property with a hot wire on top of it ... one day , I saw a doe and her yearling fawn jump that fence from a standstill . It did keep our horses in and 2 legged riff raff out though. :idunno

HAPPY BTRTHDAY and MANY MORE !!!:celebrate :clap :ya :thumbsup

My wife's cousin in Min. owns and farms 800 acres . His operation is hog production. While he grows corn on most of his farm, he buys most of his corn and other grains from surrounding farms to feed his hogs. He manages to make a nice profit every year. My father, a Veterinarian, was a milk...

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I will try to post it again, somehow when I post my location, it disapears immediately after I press the button to post. :idunno H E Y !!! it finally worked !!!!! :weee

Ridge see my preveous post as to our climate , which is much wetter and `10-19* lower temperature this year ... Another thing that I forgot to mention is that last spring, at the advise of the "master gardener Dept. at Washington State University Extention located in Vancouver, Wa. ( our home is...

The company that my wife worked for had many employees as well as a full time mechanic on staff , so yes the thermostat has been changed.

There is an annual farm expo near Tulare, Cal. ( about 40 miles from my ranch, so we visited just about every year) that lasts a week. There are international equipment producers of every thing that you could think of. International farm groups and their scientists come by the buss load to...

Well, it finally got dry enough to dig , so I dug next to the first daylilly. That shovel full yielded a side shoot with a bulb in it... which was mushy. So I continued to dig up the main plant after encountering more mushy roots. So I dug up the entire plant and the results was more of...

For my 20 acre ranch in Ca.... several years ago , I got unsold barley seed ( for free ) from a seed supply warehouse for 3 years strait since the new seed was just shipped in . Enough treated seed to plant 3 times over. I planted them a couple days after the first seasonal rains came. Then we...

That method may work where you are .... but out here in the WEST where the temperatures get over a 100* for most of late spring to late fall. the seeds may germinate, but die shortly thereafter. :idunno

Mary... here is a hint to save money on home construction work... if you are in no real hurry for a specific job , such as a roof or painting, etc. contact a contractor that is a sub - contractor that works on building new home subdivisions. They might work on your project if and when they...

Bay... just for your information , you can buy a router bit for your application called bull nose bit made specifically to round corners using your router. Much faster and safer to operate. I have used the same bull nose bit for rounding corners on our kitchen island butcher block counter...

I don't think so because I redid this as well as all other beds and hills about 4 years ago , all of the other plants are doing great except for those that were susseptable to verticilium wilt that had succumbed last year. All of resistant flowering plants and ferns that I planted last year...