Posted on 05/24/2008 11:30:31 AM PDT by decimon
Prayers up for your friend. I lost my best friend, Cathy, to cancer three years ago. She was only 47, left behind three wonderful kids and a lot of friends who really miss her every day.
As for growing cocoa, you’d be closer to the right climate than I am. Those trees only grow within 15 degrees of the equator, so you can see how precious they are to the daily survival of some of us, LOL!
It needs 65 degree temperatures year ‘round, eighty inches of rain a year, a shady spot and high humidity. Picky little buggers!
About the closest I can get up here is a Kentucky Coffee Tree, but it really doesn’t grow coffee beans. There is a tree called Katsura that grows up here; when you scratch the bark, it smells like chocolate! No lie! I’m trying to find a grower for the garden center. I’m working on a “Chocolate Garden” for my customers, which I think will be a big hit in the future. :)
I equate the word victim with poor planning.
Diana, you are such a wealth of knowledge when it comes to plants!!!!
I’ve been fighting these HUGE white grubs in my garden and flower beds this year. Best I can tell, they are the larvae of the Japanese beetle.
Every morning, with my first cup of coffee, I go out and check and there are a couple dozen in each flower bed, and in the garden. If I had time to go fishing right now I’d collect them and use them for bait — I bet the bass, crappie would love ‘em.
I can’t use poisonous stuff in my flowers, I have two dogs and a cat (my garden is fenced and I’ve used Seven Dust there).
I have Jerry Baker’s Backyard ??? Problem book, with the natural, non-lethal cures. However, he doesn’t have anything (I could find) for this problem. except a spray made from dishwashing soap, a few other ingredients.
I did use his formula for slugs and snails, a mixture of beer, yeast and sugar buried in a dish. That stuff works, I killed a ton of slugs.
You have any suggestions?
I live out in the boondocks and certainly there is nothing wrong with self-sufficent lifestyle. However, as we all know the oil supply is nowhere near running out so this womans motive was based on false assumptions. To this day I suppose she still is unware that Canada alone has at least enough oil to last for another 150 years.
what I find most interesting here is look at what one story she heard caused her to go and do... how easily the sheeple can be steered by information whether true or not.
BTW: I checked out the PeakOil forums, largely populated by liberals and greenies. One poster recommened “Das Captias” by Marx as a good read and essstential for ones library. Also they said take your pick of the Holy Bible or Koran for a inspriational source. Both are good : P
Bump.
It is interesting how many people are beginning to understand that we are staring at trouble.
These people look to me like they are living off a pretty fat retirements. If you call a fat retirement conservative, then I guess so. Nevertheless, I wonder if this fella split all that wood or just paid for it. Same goes with the garden and green house.
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