DUCKS for THEE in 2023

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I get this call yesterday from the local Champaign-Urbana (IL) rag about how our town cleaned up after the derechio a couple of weeks ago.
Here is what the reporter published:
 

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And that’s how you do it! What a lovely story about your town and the peoples in it.

Longview! There is a Longview,Texas. My parents moved there when I was 2 years old. They moved the family to Houston when I was 8 years old.
 

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Kid across the street texted me about yardwork this week. He came out Friday and put in 5 hours, chopping burdock and saplings from my fencelines and piling it up.
Saved Me HOURS of work. I am very greatful!!
He has done really good work over the past 5 years.
 

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First tomato harvest, on Wednesday. Got Lots of big and green ones...should be ripening soon.
I have milked these with DH, even though they were sliced and eaten up with hamburgers.
Guess you didn't KNOW that tomatoes are a dairy food group.
Tomato, 1st harvest, 07-25-23.jpg
 

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NO pictures yet, but I harvested all of my garlic. 19yo came over this week to work. I had him cutting burdock, but there were bees hanging around and he's allergic, so I switched his job to my big garden.
I harvested ALL of the garlic there, and had him rake up weeds, etc. and dig up the huge weeds that are shallow rooted.
Everything got piled up where I burned the last pile.
I gave him a big garlic bulb and he found 2 more and announed that he would keep them! :lol:
Don't muzzle the ox.
Eldest DD has been given free rein to try one of those "__________ w/20 cloves of garlic" meals.
Some of the bulbs have some cloves sprouting.
I will separate them next week and plant THOSE first.
Dunno how long these will last--all are hardneck--so I will try freezing.
BTW, THANK YOU, @flowerbug !!
I didn't get a big harvest, but ALL of the "seeds" are huge compared to the seeds from the other garlic that I grew.
I have saved both. When they are dry I will store them.
 
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