Posted on 01/11/2013 11:16:21 AM PST by greeneyes
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My shrubs outside are just wooden branches in the wintertime. I can’t wait to see them rejuvenate esp. the forsythia.
LOL! I like the second article better too! I think we are GMTA - I like the no fuss no muss approach as well.
We have a place between our garage and a fence where leaves collect. Before I had known about composting leaf matter, we were clearing that area out and actually dumped a LOT of what I realize now was prime compost! OOPS
I won’t do that again! LOL!
Eureka could be called the suburb of Benderville if y’all want...
http://www.weather.com/weather/tenday/Eureka+CA+USCA0360?locid=USCA0360&from=search_10day
Thanks, I’ll give her the recipe.
I planted boring boxwood along the front of my house just because I wanted to see green in the winter. LOL. I have plenty of stuff in the backyard that is just branches.
One of my favorite things to see in the Spring in addition to the green coming back to everything is the creeping phlox, hyacinths, and daffodils.
I’d be more likely to believe that Benderville was a suburb of the fictional Eureka, Oregon...the one that shares a universe with Warehouse-13. It just sounds right, somehow.
HaHa. I think that means great minds think alike? Easy peazy or lazy daisy that’s the way to do stuff. JMHO
Are you bragging or complaining.LOL
Apparently kale is trendy now. There’s a lot of recipes all over the Net. I’ve loved it for decades and usually only braise it a bit with oil or stew it with onions, oil and a bullion. It’s good cut up fine in salads. I’m partial to it in homemade vegetable soup. The flavor it lends is second to none.
I’ve mowed over the oak leaves for the past 3 years and I now have some low lying areas that are at least 2 feet deep. I guess I’ll just burn them off this year.
LOL! Exactly!
My other half sometimes says, “If it ain’t easy, it’s impossible!”
That is so wrong on so many levels, but it still makes a valid point for certain situations! - and I think gardening might be one of them! LOL!
Thanks for the links!
I read that if a person severs a digit, that if you will wrap it in cayenne powder and put it on ice, the cayenne will facilitate reattachment if brought to emergency room (with patient! LOL!) in a timely manner. Something about the pepper reportedly keeps the tiny capillaries and blood vessels viable.
Thank you for that advice...my wife is clumsy, and I leave the kitchen whenever I see her starting to slice a loaf of homemade bread...I do NOT want to startle her.
I keep my Sand Hill and Johnny’s catalogs, while burning the rest...
Was that in the southwest? Back in '88 there wasn't any snow as far north as Maine.
Last year, tomato's performed poorly, but we had a bumper crop of okra. We still have cabbage and brussel sprouts in the garden, but everything else has been cleaned out.
LOL. Oak leaves are sometimes just too plentiful to be appreciated. Thanks for the info about Kale.
and I think gardening might be one of them! LOL!
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I’ll second that! Gardening is one of the things that needs to be easy!
I never heard that. When a neighbor sliced through Hubby’s thumb with a chainsaw, it severed a tendon. They had to transport him to a St. Louis hospital for micro-surgery.
The nurse told me that this hospital was the only one in St. Louis so far that could have handled the surgery. She also told me that any severed fingers should be put into a cooler with ice, though you have to somehow protect it from frost bite. Anyhow she didn’t say anything about pepper, but I did know that keeping in cool was important.
I like the mortgage lifter for the big tomatoes and early girl. This year I will try some more stupice again. I have an heirloom that I really liked that I grow each year. I label it perfect size. LOL.
Hubby planted it, and the label wore off, so we don’t really know what it is. Any way, it’s a little larger than a cherry tomato, and just the perfect size to go on a little side salad, and grows well in pots.
Haven’t decided on the others yet.
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