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The onion seed has sprouted nicely in the greenhouse with our several days of sunshine. Boom! Encouraged, pak choi and cabbage seeds are now in a flat of soil. Additionally, some very special lettuce seed will have a chance to make their start. This is a bit early but will allow for...

Corn Earworm / Tomato Caterpillar, Helicoverpa zea https://bugguide.net/node/view/5718 HOSTS Beans Corn Eggplant Pepper Peas Tomato

I can't quite bring myself to refer to them as "bad" without implying some sort of morality on garden plants. Perhaps, given most of our annual struggle with weeds, we can say that those are bad. Still and yet, with my appreciation of harvesting some weeds, I'm inclined to think of those as...

It is a new experience for me. There have been a few years when I haven't had one square foot of garden. Probably more often, I have had a little more cool and comfortable green lawngrass to walk on and got busy to but in some garden beds for flowers and veggies. More years than both of those, I...

James Taylor & Joni Mitchell for Carole King's Tapestry.

Here I am, retired comfortably to the lazyboy after breakfast and some minor chores. No, I'm not out scraping ice off the windshield on this frigid morning and heading off to work. Breakfast? Sure, I'll have a second one soon — so nice to have the "coffee break" here at home but I do miss the...

On 8 February 1865, Gregor Mendel delivered the results of his experiments with peas and inheritance at a meeting in Moravia. Dutch and German researchers would "rediscover" Mendel's work in 1900. Remarkably, Charles Darwin did not seem aware of Mendel's writings when he presented his own...

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Sale signs. Business signs. Highway signs. Protest signs Responding to @baymule 's sheep farmers' pants comment ^ ... misunderstandings that show up on signs. Never . reaching . an . end.

Swan Island Dahlias to be featured in forever stamps from the USPS :). https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2024/12/new-postal-stamps-will-feature-oregon-farms-famous-flowers.html @Shades-of-Oregon @Dahlia cc: @Rhodie Ranch @peteyfoozer @Blueberry Acres @Branching Out...

Almost missed it and could not go far! Here are the ones in the US (& a couple on the border with Canada ;)). LINK ⛰️ LINK

Does your gardening reflect a different ethnic cuisine than what was on the table during your childhood? I didn't know what we were eating at Chinese restaurants when I was young. And, those years continued through the earliest years of my own gardening. Once I knew, I began to wonder why I...

It's that time of year! The Johnny's catalog came over the weekend. Emails are steady. Want some details details details ..? Mostly a market growers direction, however, check out the article and look at that lefthand sidebar if'n you'd like. Whew...

Language has always interested me altho I'm poorly suited for it – having impaired hearing from an early age. It may have something to do with having only one book in my childhood home other than the family bible. The dictionary was always there for the most simple of research on any subject. As...