Fall Strawberries
I really like the color of these strawberries I propagated last this summer. I still have to figure out what I am actually going to do with these.
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We had a good rainstorm the night before and my wife was returning from a neighbors house and noticed a bunch of worms crossing the street. Since she knows me and our girls so well she grabbed a couple Ziploc bags and we proceeded to have a worm hunt. Our older daughter didn’t want to touch them that morning but I was really proud of my wife who procedded…
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Small facelift to site
As you may be able to tell I have been doing a little work on the site. I finally got around to moving from Blogger to WordPress, I never had any real problems with Blogger, I just have a few things I want to do with the site that requires me to self-host and WordPress was the way to go. I am still doing some clean up so please…
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How to determine your seed germination rate
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How to fertilize/side dress tomatoes/peppers in your garden
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Are Poinsettias poisonous?
Sorry this one is busted, if you really want to you can eat a Poinsettia this Christmas though I have heard it tastes really bad and may give you a stomachache. Apparently this myth started over 100 years ago when sadly a child was found dead next to a Poinsettia plant and was a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time for the plant and…
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Something is coming out of my compost bin!!
Noticed this plant before thinking it was a weed growing next to my compost bin, but today I noticed it was actually growing out of a small slat in my compost bin. After a little more inspection I realized the distrinct tomato plant look and smell. Guess I was wrong to think those green tomatoes I threw in last fall were too immature to have viable seeds…
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