Gardening the Garden

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So I could have been growing the little Belgian endive hearts with the leftovers of my endive plants.  I sure wish I had known that.  And now, here I am in California without a garden.  I’ll have to save that knowledge for when we return to [...]

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We have a real fake tree!!!  We actually bought a new tree last year after Christmas and haven’t ever put it up!!  It’s supposed to look exactly like a douglas fir that you would take off the lot!!  The neat thing is we can make it really full or not quite [...]

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Someone here wrote a few months back that fruit is nothing more than nature’s incredibly efficient method for packaging sugar. This is quite brilliant. There are, of course, nutrients in fruit, but nothing that can’t be had many other places.
Our ancestors ate any damn thing [...]

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Got a little tendril under your little leaf to take care of have you? I can help you out…<snip OK, I thought we all agreed to keep the sharp objects away from Paula?
<snigger

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I believe there are several plant enthusiast in here. If this is indeed, a [...]

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Quite a few of my things are getting too big to wear comfortably, so I’ve been putting them away out of sight. Today, I couldn’t get any more things in the bag and I’ve had to transfer them [...]

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Size – about 18 inches tall and wide Flowers: yellow with fused petals, slightly tubular Stems: SPINY … bristling with spines leaf: classic lobed oak-leaf shape, with spines starting Seedpods: yes, and very spiny also. Pictures: not yet.  I was hoping someone could recognize a yellow-flowered spiny plant that [...]

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some fag named it.

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Holy Crap Paghat (said in an impressed way w/wide eyes and a smile) – what a completely informational post!! Thank you. Is this "internet knowledge" or stuff you studied in college? LeeAnne
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Pansy, or ponce, has indicated [...]

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – The American Horticultural Society has recently published a book titled "Pests & Diseases – The Complete Guide to Preventing, Identifying and Treating Plant Problems", By Pippa Greenwood. IMO, this is an excellent text, as are all the [...]

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Can anyone suggest a plant database for perennials and annuals available on CD? Thanks in advance. Direct reply would be appreciated. — Pull the weed to reply

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Can anyone suggest a plant database for perennials and annuals available on CD? Thanks in advance. Direct reply would be appreciated. [...]

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I did that "remove grass and plant maters" thing this year. It’s not my house so I figure by making a spot in the grass (mostly weeds and wild plants), then when we move outta here (hopefully this fall cause the landlady won’t clean out the septic tank. I can’t have visitors [...]