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    Coping With Life's Changes

    Yeah driving is over rated. I didn't get my license until I was 18. I had a bike and could ride everywhere I needed to go - school was only a 17 mile ride. Here's a life change for my family. We have munchkin #2 due in only a few weeks.
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    Bee keeping

    So Randy the German bees are more productive and build better hives and the Italian ones constantly run late and go hungery in the winter right?
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    Bee keeping

    Anyone here keep bees? I've been looking into this for a while and want to jump. Well the real thing I'm waiting for is to make sure our crumb-crunchers aren't allergic to stings. I've spent the last few days reading about Warre hives. I stumbled on these after thinking a topbar hive would...
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    What to plant at first of July?

    I am now pulling about 2/3 of my garlic. The heads are not as big as I hoped but the plant is brown and dry. I was hoping to plant broccoli where the garlic what but I think it will be too hot for too long to plant broccoli now. What should I plant now? Green bean packet says 57 days and I...
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    Newbie from Colorado

    Welcome flako. Beyond your lawn and hacking back over growth have you thought about what you want from your yard? When I moved in to my place I added a bunch of low maintenance ornamental landscaping and shade trees. Now I wish I had put things else where and put in fruit trees rather than...
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    harvest tracking

    Anyone else track their garden harvest by weight? I tracked my harvest last year in great detail - date, weight, item harvested. This year I am only keeping a running tally of the weight harvested. Last year my goal was twofold: to figure out how much it cost per pound grown and what veg...
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    Can you please identify this mishroom/fungi?

    I'll just chime in here. Becareful going by color on a computer screen with differences in monitors. I've run into several cases where the same photo displays differently across different computers even different laptops of the same model and age.
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    Recipe Let's see your bbq's, and recipes.

    So mikiejack, what was the first meal? We're grilling mackeral and zuchinni tonight. Never have cooked mackeral but the sale price was really good.
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    My veggie garden

    I pulled rhubarb for the first time yesterday and made a crisp with it off food tv. Neither my wife nor I could finish a serving of it. Though and fiberous and the chunks never cooked down like i expected. Rhubarb gets one more chance in the kitchen then it goes and frees up garden space...
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    Recipe Let's see your bbq's, and recipes.

    Randy, few questions on this. Do you smoke them with the dry rub from raw or bake and chill first? Just using the smoker as the last step? Use the smoker for both steps? Is there a non-pork rib you do this with? I want to do ribs but my wife doesn't eat pork. Thanks
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    Recipe Let's see your bbq's, and recipes.

    I run a Weber kettle and an electric smoker. So far this year we've burnt over fifty pounds of charcoal. That bbq looks like it is just begging for a paella. Search recipes for paella. We cook at least one of these a month but usually more. Last week did rainbow trout and eggplant for one...
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    Large planter advice.

    My wife just pointed out that I had the year wrong. This is in the third season. Anyway there is no rot taking place in it. I checked for rot by digging back early this spring.
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    Large planter advice.

    I like the multiple box thing you posted MJ. I may use part of it if I can figure out where to put one. Here is my bed: This is a 2x4 frame with exterior 3/8" ply in the center. I then lined the edges with blue tarp. I am sure the tarp extended the life of the wood but am up in...
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    Large planter advice.

    I can take some and post them this evening. It was dark out when I got online last night.
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    Starting beans / pests eating bean starts

    I have this great raised bed where I have been composting in place and the soil has done really well for me. I started with straw bale gardening then merged into lasagna and last fall mixed in several inches of shredded leafs. This resulted in a lot of worms in black soft rich soil. This also...
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    Large planter advice.

    I did just this on a slightly smaller scale. Mine is 4'x7' and about 18" tall. I have it on a paver patio set over a concrete pad. I used 2x4 untreated to build a frame and filled the inner area with 3/8" ply. I then sealed this off with linseed oil and fastened it with exterior deck screws...
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    Pepper seedling failure

    Im going to keep what I have going and buy transplants tomorrow. I've saved this seed from last year which I got from a friend who's been cultivating this variety for about twenty years by seed saving.
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    Videos-Educational/Informational

    University of Illinois Extension - Veg Gardens While this is not a video site you can't really beat a good university extension site geared to backyard veg gardens. http://web.extension.illinois.edu/vegguide/default.cfm
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    Videos-Educational/Informational

    Red Worm Composting This is an informational blog on using worms for composting. He has linked information with keywords rather well and is easily searchable. http://www.redwormcomposting.com/
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    Pepper seedling failure

    This year I started 16 bell pepper plants in mid March. These were started in peat pots with commercial starter mix. In the last two weeks I've transplanted them into the ground and containers. They were hardened off well. In the last two days plants that had been small but doing well otherwise...


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