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Happy B-Day Major!

Well Weimaraners are one of those "velcro dogs." The dog might just be going nuts because it got separated from it's owner. Do you have a picture of your little sister to put in the kennel? Could help.

So sorry to hear Marshall! I'm nearly speechless, that's a horrible thing to go through. You might be nearly 60, but try to think of it this way - you've lived nearly 60 years and have likely been through all kinds of unpleasant situations. You can't let this knock you off of your feet! There...

I don't know of any that are toxic enough to kill a child, but then again I'm not an expert. There are thousands of species out there, so it's very likely that there could be at least one out there. You might want to go to a survival/mushrooming forum and ask if you really want to find out...

The mushrooms will do as much harm as the soil itself. Nothing to worry about. All that they do is break down organic material in the soil and put trace minerals and things back into the soil as they do so. I had millions of Inky Caps in the garden last year and nothing special happened, I...

Thanks for clearing that up. Was starting to get high hopes. Nature does do a lot of work it the garden, but there can't be a garden without seeds.

Alright then, I'll cast my vote for mulch. Yup! The weeds do give me a good idea about what my soil is like. I don't think that I'll have to worry about keeping my hands out of the dirt. I'll be helping at least one person out this summer. And I do have plenty of gardening neighbors to help...

You know that things are about to get serious when somebody brings a tiller like that out. Nice John Deere!

Neither! My parents won't let me intentionally plant anything in the garden this year since we are supposed to be moving in early August. (I'm might scratch up the ground a little and sprinkle some old seed on the soil's surface, shhhh....) So what I'm doing this is going entirely off of...

I would definitely try that using a standard yellow variety first. Something tells me that the smaller colored varieties like the ones that I have would be more bitter.

I've never heard of using phosphorus to scare birds off. How does it work? I could also use this to scare the birds away from my rare grain varieties too. If I could scare these birds away once and for all, I could actually get enough grain to cook with! They aren't exactly heirlooms but...

Birds beat me to them for the most part, the sunflower patch was practically a sparrow magnet when it was up. If only I had pictures of how many of them flew out of the patch each time I walked by. I made sure that I didn't buy any male sterile varieties. My other problem was the mold. Any...

Past, unfortunately. I loves my sunflowers!! I didn't get seeds from these last year, so I really hope that I can get plenty of volunteers and seeds before we move. I had one rare variety in the mix called "Il Torre" from Italy (originally from Adaptive Seeds, a company that you should check...

Definitely test the soil's pH before you start, and after if you really need to amend it. At our last house we made a bed for blueberries and assumed that we needed to make the soil more acidic before planting somehow, we didn't test the soil before we planted. We added loads of well-composted...

It's something in the evolution of the corn or something, I actually can't remember. Looking forward to that reply seedcorn. Corn can always be isolated with another variety of corn that is early/late enough to avoid the other corn's tasseling period. If the corn is grown in big enough blocks...

Jason - I like this and will take that advice for myself! I do agree on much of what you post. However, you might not want to bring yourself down to lower levels and resort to name-calling (or the closest thing to it, like Steve mentioned). It's rather unnecessary and doesn't help to get your...

Yup! Considered buying some Puramaize before. Problem is that it has some sort of patent on it. I don't know if I could get away with using it to breed something new or not, I know that I wouldn't be able to sell the seeds. Thanks for posting that. If TEG has some sort of resources/articles...

*Read this in your best valley-girl voice.* "So this totally ratchet guy like made what was like clearly the most awesome comeback in history! Like it was arguably so epic that the teacher like sent him to detention. Lololol it was hilarious. ROFL." Sorry, I had to... :D Didn't make too many...

A slightly late Welcome to TEG Yulan! :frow Magnolias are one of the best flowering trees out there! Don't grow any myself (we live on rented land so don't want to take the risk of leaving them behind) but I do see the occasional tree in somebody else's yard.

Exporting our surplus of dogs would get rid of the problem almost instantly. It would help to improve our reputation with other countries in the meantime as well - In a minimal way, but I think that we could use that right now. We could always try opening up hardcore foodies to dog meat - not...