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Welcome from the "east coast Oregon" aka Vermont! My own canning has been limited to pickles and jam, but we used to freeze and store a winter's worth of vegetables from our garden. Now I just raise a few things, tomatoes and crookneck summer squash this year. Good luck with your foray into...

I have some tiny crookneck squash babies ripening under the deer netting in my raised bed too, and a lot of green tomatoes also. The season of plenty lies just ahead!

Love dandelion greens. I don't mind the bitter taste, although others have told me that boiling a bit of bacon with them will mitigate the bitterness. Two things I never see mentioned here are fiddlehead ferns and young (wild) milkweed stalks. Not sure if I've ever eaten the former, but the...

Flooding struck here yesterday, brought on by the remnants of Hurricane Beryl, and inundated towns to my north already devastated by last summer's flooding. This weather event occurred on the exact anniversary of last year's historic flood. So terrible to see farms again losing their crops...

You're preaching to the choir here I think. When I get depressed about the damage we're inflicting on all non-human life, I find the best therapy is to walk around my own little 2+ acre sanctuary and watch the pollinators at work on my plants, both wild and deliberately planted.

I don't even like mums as a general rule, but those red flowers are gorgeous. Boat gardening, a new category!

Fascinating! Few persons have ever used their lives to experience and give so much as this man. The natural world will be poorer when he's gone.

I'm so sorry to hear of, and see pictures, of this horrible destruction. That's just awful.

Welcome from rural Vermont (the Green Mountain State)!

Oh that poor lamb stuffed into the bucket! She looks as miserable as a dog having a bath! Hope all their health woes are in the past now.

That's fascinating. Who knew how important the blue LED would be. Without it, all the (white) light bulbs in my house would still be incandescent. Electricity, it's fascinating.

Pretty good set-up. Looks like you're well prepared for the coming inferno.

This explains it best for those of us not techy enough to grasp the finer points of LED lighting. https://hitlights.com/blogs/premium-led-strip-lighting/numbers-and-leds-what-does-2835-3528-and-5050-mean

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Mine would love to have this tall trellis to explore (and conquer).

I have the purple version of bee balm in one of my now abandoned perennial beds.

The same water supply as you have? Beware you don't also catch it, whatever it is! It sounds really nasty.

You probably have tested them for giardia, but if not, it's easier to treat than coccidia, in case both infections are present. Have you used sulfa drugs for the coccidia? Poor little guys with undeveloped immune systems are easy victims for these evil microbes. :-(

They seem hard to kill!

The only info I have about this rose is this from an online purchase order back in 2014 when I bought 3 of these plants: I'm not sure if Seven Sisters was the name of this rose variety or the name of the nursery I purchased from. I'm also uncertain how correct this info is, since this...