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geezerwriter

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  • Birthday 12/07/1942

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    Some'rs nawth/nawthwest uv Brookville

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  1. Many of us had our days brightened by her comments. I pray that she rests in peace.
  2. Our tomatoes taste fine but, aside from the cherry ones, we don't have a lot per plant -- but we have 50 plants, so we have plenty. I think I need to pay attention to lime and fertilizer in the fall and spring.
  3. If you don't have a lot, you can put them out now if you make hothouse covers and put them on every night and take them off every morning. I cut the bottoms off clear gallon milk jugs when I did that -- 30 years ago. I don't do that any more. The gain isn't worth the pain. But if you're worried about not having them in soil, you can do it. It's just gonna be work between now and June.
  4. We don't compost ... directly. All that stuff gets fed to chickens, including coffee grounds. They "compost" it for us.
  5. We use the powdered, but I found a few times where not everything dissolved in warm water. So I keep a mason jar with a plastic lid handy. I put the teaspoon of homemade laundry soap into the jar, hold the jar beneath the water running into the washing machine, get it half full, put on the lid, and shake the bejabers out of it, then pour it in, rinse out the jar and put it back on the shelf. Works fine. Soap also dissolves OK in hot water without that fussing. I don't use the homemade stuff on cold-water washing stuff (black slacks, etc.) because I don't want any residue. Woolite works well enough there, and I don't do that many loads.
  6. We have about 30, two roosters. They're still laying. About a dozen eggs a day. A dozen are one-year-olds, the rest are 2 and 3. They're fun.
  7. We have a bumper crop. Of course, one gets a bumper crop when one's spouse plants 127 tomato plants and, so far, has put up 95 quarts of tomato sauce. We had some blossom end rot (always do), but not really bad. The bumper crop of tomatoes is supposed, I guess, to make up for the NO crop at ALL of apples, pears, grapes, peaches, plums, due to that April freeze after the super-warm weather caused those trees to blossom early.
  8. A lot of them have now been carved up into housing for drug dealers oops, students!
  9. We don't. This was posted in order to torment us for the rest of our days. We are doomed to squirm.
  10. Yep. We had a story to that effect in the paper last week.
  11. Umm ... it CAN overwinter in wooden stakes, which are, by definition, organic. I slathered mine in bleach and water last year when I pulled them, and let them dry for awhile.
  12. On our drive through virginia we see a huge apple orchard off I-81 with trees that are no more than 12-15 feet tall. I don't LIKE tall apple trees. But I can't top off one; it's at least 40 feet high. The apples wither in the high altitude. I do trim grape vines and lilac bushes now, though I usually wait until just after the lilacs bloom.
  13. Out in the sticks between Brookville and Sigel, our deer control mechanisms go "Bark, bark!" and the deer go "Run, run!"
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