Proverbs 11:27
Posted on 07/01/2025 5:32:22 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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Proverbs 11:27
Love Love Love your pictures and your spirit Thank You!
Yeah, my wife and I have “run into” that latter problem several times, over the years. My most spectacular collision was in a Honda CRX 1.3, on I-24. I flipped the big buck OVER the car. Mostly. An antler came through the windshield a couple inches to the left of the (inside) rear view mirror mount. What fun.
Hmm, I might try to grow such cold tolerant lettuce in the fall, too. My attempt in the basement failed. :-(
Squirrels get ours (tulips). :-(
Yup, Frisbee Golf. My brother and I used to play a version of it around my parents’ house.
That's me, picking the last of the Cherries, today. If you ever find yourself in Wisconsin, do NOT miss picking the Montmorency (pie & medicinal) cherries in Door County! 2,500 acres of cherry trees!
https://hellodoorcounty.com/door-county-cherry-picking/
That’s a good vid, especially because... my vines don’t have that kind of stem damage. Instead, the stems just sort of shrivel up (as opposed to the usual “toughening” but-still-healthy appearance as they mature). The roots though sometimes generate a new stem: My one surviving Japanese cucumber is doing that, and so far the new stem, though not even 2 ft. long / tall, is flowering and attempting to fruit. The other one (Japanese cuke) appears to be dead. I have a few lemon cucumbers in pots and they are liking better this lack of rain almost every day, compared to the prior few very rainy weeks. (The lemon cukes in the ground appear to be all “shot”. They may have just drowned, as opposed to the Opo that is in a well drained pot with new potting soil this late spring.)
FWIW, whatever is happening to the Opo usually happened later in the year in previous years, to Opo, squash, or pumpkins, when soil moisture was modest.
I wish I had a solid/concise answer for ya! I think you need to build a Bio-Dome in your back yard. ;)
Could be! That’d keep the mosquitos out, too!
Among other things, July is National Bison Month. And that’s no bull!
;-)
This is much like the problem we are having with our old Subaru Outback. It’s just defying being tracked down! :-(
Word of the day here : Weeds.
The good rain we had recently has made the weeds grow like crazy.
🌱🌱🌱
I have some of my stratified catnip seeds sowed in a re-used 6-pack with brand new seed starter soil. 1/8” depth.
Looking around online, I see the recommendations for best soil temperature for germination at 60-70 deg. F. Some other online sources say 70-80 deg. F. I’ll have to monitor, but, IIRC my basement will average around 70 deg. F this time of year. Hopefully, that will be about right?
My brother’s answer on the tomatoes he’s growing ... not particularly helpful.
“Early girls and some big ones..lost the tags in a storm.”
“And that’s no bull!”
In my case, Monday a week ago, it WAS a bull ... a very large black Angus bull running loose on a winding, barely 2 lane, country road in the dark. Fortunately, I saw him silhouetted ahead as he crossed the road & was able to slow down & avoid him.
No mention of germination temp but it does mention they can't take the heat/humidity of the deep south.
With few exceptions, most things love the mid 70s
Sounds like “whatever the store had” — because they always have Early Girl and a few other standard varieties. Some big ones = Big Boy?
LOL! Well, at least he’s honest! :)
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