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To: ApplegateRanch

I hope you haven’t mixed up the Tea Tank with the Potable tank or I will have to report you to I’m here to Help You.gov and has cuddly-animals.ag signed off on your destruction of the endangered pinecone fuzzy wuzzy bettles?

And why ARE you planting pine cones in your wheat field?


84 posted on 08/26/2011 8:27:09 PM PDT by tubebender (The voices in my head may not be real, but they have some very good ideas)
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To: tubebender; ApplegateRanch; Red_Devil 232; rightly_dividing; fanfan; Gabz; JustaDumbBlonde; ...

As we drove into town last week, my husband exclaimed at a neighbor’s house, “Well, look at that! I wonder who dumped all those cucumbers in the gutter?”

I believed him because my cucumbers are dreadful this year (bitter). But, on our return trip, we looked a little closer and saw that the pine tree on the curb had dropped a whole load of cones as the result of some gusty winds.

So, we don’t have a neighborhood vandal after all.
My other problem is my bumper crop of tomatoes. I have so many ripe tomatoes! I brought in 50 this afternoon, and I have just as many still hanging on the vines outdoors. Despite neglect and unfavorable weather, my tomato crop has not disappointed. I nearly had a heart attack hauling them in in a big trug tonight. I would have picked more, but the mosquitos were eating me alive.


87 posted on 08/26/2011 8:48:22 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: tubebender
The soil is a bit on the basic side, so the acid from the cones helps balance it; and it also adds much needed organic matter to the clay-loam (heavy on clay, light on loam) soil dirt.

The other half of the garden has a 2 or 3 year head start, and looks & acts like soil now.

I had a good weekly source of chemical free grass clippings from a motel, but that dried up early last year...but we make do with our 300 acres of pine cones, not even counting the 1,000+ acres of government cones adjoining.

The occasional revenooer, Mormon missionary, and Jehovah's Witness helps out the compost situation, too. (Shhh!)

95 posted on 08/26/2011 9:08:17 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch ("Public service" does NOT mean servicing the people, like a bull among heifers.)
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