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11-06-2013, 06:40 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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they should make graphene hexagon panels
that conduct electricity
super strong too
and make giant geodesic grow domes up there  |
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04-09-2015, 10:11 AM
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Spot Preserver
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Mansfield
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Its almost time again for the garden. Who's growing what this year?
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Make America Great Again.
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04-09-2015, 05:09 PM
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brocolli doesn't mind snow or cold period!
neither do sugar snap pea's
but check out this utuber video
great idea as weeds always win in the end
four day carrot germination
https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...ur+day+carrots |
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04-09-2015, 09:04 PM
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Retired Surfer
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Sunset Grill
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started turning over my three compost piles. saved all the kitchen waste in the barn over winter, and started adding that to the three working compost bins. Heat it all up again with the first lawn cutting.
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04-14-2015, 08:10 AM
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Spot Preserver
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Mansfield
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Put in the spinach and broccoli yesterday.
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Make America Great Again.
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04-20-2015, 09:41 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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pre soaked my sugar snap seeds (6 packets) yesterday (started in the moon sign of Taurus)
planted them PRE -swelled today because it's going to RAIN HARD
and that vibration on top of them from the drumming rain says "grow peas grow"
i'll count how many days it takes for them to pop up.
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04-22-2015, 04:04 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 3,594
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Wood Chucksters are already out ,beware
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06-23-2015, 02:01 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Narragansett
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Quote:
Originally Posted by vineyardblues
Wood Chucksters are already out ,beware
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House lot across the street from me just cleared for construction, and I seem to have acquired a family of woodchucks. They ate my kale, parsley, and sunflower plants and started on the zucchini plants. I have a beautiful patch of arugula, which they haven't touched - must be too peppery. |
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04-23-2015, 06:43 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Melrose MA
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Raven,
What seeds do you pre soak and which do you leave? Never tried it before. How long in water?
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04-23-2015, 07:00 AM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Georgetown MA
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I can tell you I have had good luck pre-popping Peas and Beans. I put them in a single layer between a couple of wet paper towels in a Ziploc bag for a couple of days until they swell and "pop" and then plant them.
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"If you're arguing with an idiot, make sure he isn't doing the same thing."
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05-03-2015, 05:17 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Libtardia
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Quote:
Originally Posted by The Dad Fisherman
I can tell you I have had good luck pre-popping Peas and Beans. I put them in a single layer between a couple of wet paper towels in a Ziploc bag for a couple of days until they swell and "pop" and then plant them.
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I bed you did this in high school with some other seeds 
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04-23-2015, 07:30 AM
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i put mine in a big zip lock and pre-soaked em overnight
making sure to pour off the water come morning leaving
it open sitting side saddle in a tupperware...
i was a little P.O.'d because my pea inoculant which was granuler
ran out @ half my row... Hate when that happens.... grrrrr
so now i'll have to poke some holes near the row and water in some inoculant
to make up for the lack of it.... surprised to see it @ Hd's half off sale on burpee seed rack ... 68 cents each for everthing
but i didn't buy some while there because the container i had felt heavier.
fingers got sooo cold after planting them like i was just making snow balls...  |
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05-03-2015, 06:30 AM
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my sugar snap pea's are breaking thru today yay  |
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05-03-2015, 05:16 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Libtardia
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So are mine  .
My hops vines are exploding as well... Chinook is growing about 3" a day it seems. Centennial are growing slower.
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06-23-2015, 08:36 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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dammit
F-ING MICE & F-ING Hornets... well the mice chewed on the lid
of the big green flip top trash can that i had full of shade cloth
just enough so the friggan yellow jackets had a perfect entrance.
they had a nest in there and when i got near it and jiggled it
out they came in a cloud and i got stung 4 times....  |
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06-25-2015, 06:50 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Here and There Seasonally
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Raven
F-ING MICE & F-ING Hornets... well the mice chewed on the lid
of the big green flip top trash can that i had full of shade cloth
just enough so the friggan yellow jackets had a perfect entrance.
they had a nest in there and when i got near it and jiggled it
out they came in a cloud and i got stung 4 times.... |
Rub a fresh cut onion on a yellow jacket sting, near instant relief. Cherokee remedy. |
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine
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06-23-2015, 05:48 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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one thing about wood chucks
they are time sensitive ... just like dogs
i've found...creatures of habit always leaving
their dens @ the same time of the morning.
knowing this from timing them.... i waited for one.
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06-26-2015, 06:14 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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made a paste of baking soda and water ,,, worked great
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07-01-2015, 08:13 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Reading Mass/Newburyport/merrimack river
Posts: 3,743
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meat tenderizer works good on those things too.. but I also am partial to the baking soda remedy..
I HATE YELLOW JACKETS.. evil little beast made a den under a bush next to the front door.. I got stung a bunch of times last year... so dug around the bush at night.. and yanked it out with the wheeler... rotto tilled the area and exterminated the little stinging missals...
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A good run is better than a bad stand!
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08-01-2015, 04:23 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Hyde Park, MA
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Picked a bunch of cukes this morning, and they were as big as a zucchini! We've got blossoms everywhere!
Now if my peppers and tomatoes would do the same I'd be all set!
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I am a legend in my own mind! 
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08-01-2015, 04:29 PM
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picked my first big tomato Finally
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08-01-2015, 07:11 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Melrose MA
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Picked 4 tomatoes so far and have a blue ribbon sized one maybe 2 or 3 days away. Slugs crushed my squash and zuchini, now my second plantinging is starting to flower. Waiting a couple weeks then will put in kale / spinach and maybe something else for the fall. What does everyone here do for fall crop?
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08-01-2015, 07:33 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JamesJet
What does everyone here do for fall crop?
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see next post |
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08-01-2015, 07:33 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JamesJet
What does everyone here do for fall crop?
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sugar snap peas and broccoli |
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08-01-2015, 11:12 PM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Georgetown MA
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Got my first cukes this week....waiting for the tomatoes to explode
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08-02-2015, 07:20 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2002
Posts: 8,718
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I picked cherry toms this morning and have some early girls within days.
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08-03-2015, 07:34 AM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,542
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Been picking Zukes and herbs for week. Just waiting on the tomatoes.
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No boat, back in the suds. 
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08-08-2015, 10:09 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Hyde Park, MA
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picked a bunch of huge cukes this past week and I'm going to try making sour pickles with them.
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I am a legend in my own mind!
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08-17-2015, 06:42 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2002
Posts: 8,718
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Two tomato plants are too many right now!
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08-17-2015, 07:17 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Melrose MA
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Tomatoes good, cukes so so, and squash that will start going gang busters soon I hope. Peas long gone but did really well, strawberries were weak raspberries were way too much but amazing and beans just finishing up. Have one Brocolli that must have over wintered as something that never really took off last fall and did well this year about to get some of that too.
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