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To: greeneyes

How much are you bench pressing. Can you do chin-ups too.

Back to the garden, corn, silver hull peas, squash, broccoli, etc are all up and starting to thrive with the warm weather. The silver hull pea seeds were given to me by my stepdad more than 2 decades ago. He bought them in Texas, a sizeable Baggie for one dollar. I keep them in the freezer and germination was close to 100%. I have planted a couple of long rows every year and yet I still have plenty for. Ext year.. Who says old seeds don’t retain their life quest.

The Peonies are also in full bloom, beautiful and fragrant.


7 posted on 05/19/2017 3:53:20 PM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed)
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To: Neoliberalnot

That’s interesting - so you are planting 20 year old seeds that you kept in a freezer? Were they vaccum packed?

I am not doing much. Just started the weight training last week. May switch to incline press, because the regular style hurts my back too much, and laying flat makes me feel like I am suffocating.


16 posted on 05/19/2017 4:09:35 PM PDT by greeneyes
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To: Neoliberalnot
Our tomatoes are the best we've seen. We started from seed on March 2nd or 3rd. Peppers a few days later.
All the tomatoes are Roma varieties, half will be sandwich size for slicing, the other for pasta sauce.

Radishes, my favorite snack, were also very productive. We had lettuce spontaneously erupt from the corner of one of the raised beds. Wife picked this and we enjoyed a wonderful salad with radishes and green onions (plus a store bought tomato and a cuke from a local Mennonite farmer) for dinner earlier.

Thunderstorms are moving through the Lake of the Ozarks area tonight. So far, no hail. We saw some damage near Springfield on TV news. No injuries reported.

20 posted on 05/19/2017 4:22:50 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Neoliberalnot

Do you save seeds from those silverhull peas?


30 posted on 05/19/2017 6:32:19 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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