The varieties in bold are currently being offered in the 2024 SSE Yearbook. They also list a "Polish Paste" which although it doesn't say 'giant', refers to fruits up to 1 pound in weight.
I don't know whether or not it is possible for me to send seeds to you from the U.S., but if so, would be...
Oh, how I wish we shared a back fence. I too love baking, but you take it to a new level. :drool Somehow I doubt you'll have any trouble selling your creations.
Not particularly, and I avoid them now. But when I was walking along the road on Whidbey Island, I might walk through a puddle on purpose - just to keep passing cars from doing so & drenching me.
That reminds me of my snow spiders.
The warmer weather has awakened a mid-winter surge of box elder bugs, which are really good at getting into the house. Most of them come into the basement, so I try to keep that door closed. But they fly & follow light, so if I leave the basement door open, I...
Mine are all the miniature roses we discussed recently. Maybe larger roses, with thicker canes, are more succulent? It's crazy how deer can get past those thorns... makes my mouth sore just thinking about it.
@SPedigrees , at one point when I first moved back to Wisconsin, I had an unfenced garden in an open field behind my job. White clover volunteered freely there, and I allowed it to grow in the pathways. Rabbits mostly passed everything else by & ate the clover... deer just nipped off leaves and...
Dogs are a lot like children; they bond to us, love us, and depend upon us just as deeply - and are just as hurt when abused or neglected. Good dog owners - like those here - love their dogs as family. It's sad that their lives are so much shorter than ours, and that we have to say goodby to...
I agree that animals learn, and in my experience, scent deterrents only work for a short time, if at all. Taste deterrents work a little better; but the more effective & potent the substance, the less likely you would want to apply it to anything intended for food use.
The fact that deer learn...
I remember when I lived in Puget Sound, 90 miles from Seattle. Winters were really wet, sometimes rain-drizzle-fog-repeat. After awhile, I stopped caring whether I was wet or dry & just became a duck. It hardly ever froze, but I'll take a dry freeze over cold wind-driven rain anytime.
Oh, how I wish I could train or encourage birds to eat ear worms! If I do nothing, they will infest the majority of the sweetcorn crop, and nothing attacks them. Most of their damage is confined to the tips; I then open the husks, and shake them into a bucket of soapy water as I pick. But since...