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@teamneu instead of using zip ties I use metal rebar ties and a tie tool. You can find them at building supply stores. It's cheaper (if you use a lot like we do) and I don't like putting used plastic into the landfill.

I don't use twine on my t-posts, I stretch welded wire fencing between them and let the beans climb on that. At end of season I just pull everything off, and any thing that lingers can be torched. I have seen bean growers in Appalachia use twine between t-posts, though. It looked like they...

Just two varieties of beans yet to sprout, one of them being the Nyimo. Besides the control pot, I planted more at the end of the towers where they will receive late afternoon shade, hoping to further mimic the light on the equator. I will plant one more group in the full sun. The 8 foot...

My most prolific year of peppers I grew them under a 50 percent shade cloth structure.

You wouldn't want to use it on any lawn that you might dig up later and turn into a vegetable garden. Metals compound over time in the soil if I'm not mistaken.

I just use keyboard shortcuts to copy (ctr c) the image on my hard drive and paste (ctr v) my photo into the body of a TEG post.

The City of Austin sells Dillo Dirt, and it was maybe the first in the nation to market and sell composted sewerage sludge. I used it one year for my garden, but the next year decided to move it to the front yard for my flowers. The link has a list of what was found in it, probably not much...

I always plant one seed per cell. I don't like thinning.

Our last two dogs Gilbert & Sullivan chose us. One day they appeared in our backyard, playing with our dog. We thought maybe they got in when we were moving the tractor. So we tossed them out and shooed them away. An hour later, they were in the backyard again. We walked the fence, and...

@Smart Red we have a huge number of dung beetles here that clean up after our dogs. I love watching them rolling the balls off to their homes using their hind legs. One person's trash is another person's treasure!

I can see why--that's some mushroom. I'm surprised no one put a pair of underwear on it!

@journey11 your link is quite interesting! It appears they are false puffballs and in the same family as the stinkhorns. We have both oaks and juniper, but these are popping up in the meadows around them. Other folks get morels and I get turds:idunno

Most things in the puffball family are edible. Probably like the Stinkhorn mushroom (which grew at my last home, looked like a neon phallus smelled like something had died) it was"edible but not recommended" LOL. They do look better when they dissolve into a heap of spores like a pile of cinnamon.

With the recent rains they've been popping up everywhere. We don't see that many mushrooms in the Southwest. I had no idea what it was, so I Googled 'mushroom that looks like a turd' and sure enough, there it was...I present to you the Dog Turd Mushroom (Pisolithus tinctorius). Apparently...

And a Swiss Cheese flower. Actually, it's a Mexican White Primrose that something ate through while it was still in the bud. I thought it looked interesting!

Here's my wildflower field of bluebonnets and star gazing chairs.

Only on this forum can it go from drought tolerant ground cover to indecent exposure in just a few posts LOL. Hopefully the original poster is still with us!

I paid $100 at a local junk store for a rusty one panel wrought iron gate that was dented, no frills, just straight up and down rails with a rusty chicken on the front.

@Ridgerunner Are the upright trees just past the meadow in the foreground hickory then? If those are oaks, they aren't shaped at all like any of ours. @Bluejay77 it's quadruplets on the Imbotyi Chaphaza today :)

That's the thing about middle age; you can still do all the things you once could when you were young, it just takes a lot longer to recover! Hope you get your nap.