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Haven't been around for a while except in garden. He is getting worse and I no longer listen. If the radio is on it just puts me asleep. Art would keep me awake many nights but Snoory, sadly, is good for a nights sleep. I understand he is loosing listeners and is way down from years ago. Tuning arou...

I have two beds along the south fence that are now starting to get shade so they will cool down first going toward fall. I am planting there in the one and the other one is open trench for kitchen waste that gets put in then covered. By spring that bed will have composted most of it and be ready to ...

Didn't plant any corn this year as we have been pretty dry the past years and of course we get tons of rain from the early monsoon and corn would have grown very well. Next year I guess I will try again. Picking peas, tomatoes and the usual salad veggies. Onions and potato patches looking good. Gett...

Summer squash coming in now so got the first couple off this AM. Won't pack these as they will be in a salad but from the looks of the plants I'll be busy by the end of the week. Tomatoes coming in on some of the plants and others will be later this summer so spread out across the summer is just fin...

I see you are at low altitudes there at LAX so that would be true as it was for me when I was at 400-feet ASL back in PA. Here I am near 7,000 feet and things are different due to the dry and rapid evaporation. Even the extension advises evening watering because morning will just loose most of it to...

In for a cool lunch break as it is noon sun time or 1PM MST and the heat is coming on fast now. It is 86 here with a breeze that is just sucking the moisture out. I agree Fan, the potted ones need it a lot and us even more. I'm putting up supports for more hoop covers that will hold shade material t...

They should work and along with the flashy streamers I think I will have Bambi a little nervous for a while. I have seen those red blink lights for sale but at near $20 each too expensive. Since I can build things I may build a couple of them to put out as I have a few small solar cells to use to re...

Got a whole bunch of them and started hanging last evening in the trees, which are few around here, and off other things so they dangle and catch the light. I have solar lights in the garden and walk ways so the CD's should catch some light there and cause that flash the deer hate. I see my apple tr...

Sadly we are getting more and more junk in the food under the guise it is needed to produce as much as is needed. It's been shown over and over that proper land management will produce as much if not more and better quality food. Sadly that impacts the bottom line a little and cuts into the multi-mi...

These so called horse owners around me are more Yuppie than real ranchers so all the crap they can give the animal goes in it and junk crap comes out. They are too busy to graze the animals and really treat them well but they are within county limits so nothing can be done. I figured I would do the ...

I agree there. I take the pulled weeds and let them dry to the bone in this hot sun then they go back as a help for the mulch cover than get turned in when the beds get turned. I have noticed those beds I have done that with are getting less and less weeds every year so maybe the weeds that are thin...

Lots of horses around here but sadly they have every chemical known to man put into them so the manure is no good. I got a good load a few years ago and had it dumped in the north 40 and from there I took smaller loads to the garden beds. Hardly anything grew and it was hard getting things back and ...

I am going to try blueberries here in this soil but first they are going to live in planter pots and get upgraded in size for a couple years while I get the plot acid enough for them. Soil here is very alkaline so lots of work needs to be done to even bring it into the normal range for most plants a...

Weeds and more weeds here also on the CO plains. All the rain we had sure got them going and the hail that hit the plants I had in didn't phase the weeds at all. We have that dang bind weed here which is a sort of morning glory imported from Europe in the 1800's and followed the settlers here. It is...

Fan, sure understand the weeds. Here in CO it is the CO bind weed with roots that go up to 50-feet deep. It is an endless battle keeping ahead of them but I have found a way to tame them some. I did the beds deep and dig up as much root material as possible, one gets to recognize it after a couple y...