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Picking up sticks, mowing, moving mulch from ground tree stumps for today. Tomorrow will be weeding the garden and trimming the hops, with a 30 mile bike ride in the morning. I’m going to need another weekend.
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Which trail you riding broskiPicking up sticks, mowing, moving mulch from ground tree stumps for today. Tomorrow will be weeding the garden and trimming the hops, with a 30 mile bike ride in the morning. I’m going to need another weekend.
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Going to jump on at the riverfront in Millvale then head to the point and onto the GAP trail. Once I hit 15 miles I’ll head backWhich trail you riding broskiPicking up sticks, mowing, moving mulch from ground tree stumps for today. Tomorrow will be weeding the garden and trimming the hops, with a 30 mile bike ride in the morning. I’m going to need another weekend.
Plan to start biking to work a couple of days a week too. Will park at Millvale then bike across the 31st st bridge. May loop around Herr’s island once or twice just to get some miles
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My wife got an orchid from one of her students at the end of the last school year. It bloomed for a few months and we just continued to water it...very infrequently. Like sometimes a month between waterings I've almost thrown it out a couple of times, but the leaves have remained green.
Well today there are 4 buds on it, ready to bloom. Pretty resilient little plant. All it takes is to fill the pot with 1-2" of water and let the root ball soak for 1 minute. Drain the excess water out, and it's good for at least a few weeks.
Well today there are 4 buds on it, ready to bloom. Pretty resilient little plant. All it takes is to fill the pot with 1-2" of water and let the root ball soak for 1 minute. Drain the excess water out, and it's good for at least a few weeks.
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I water my orchids once a month. I fill the pot with water and let them sit in it for 15-30 mins. I forget about them half the time and it can be hours. They are all healthy and thriving after several years
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My gf has an orchid that’s about a 14 months old. I water it every few weeks and give it orchid food. I haven’t got new buds since the originals fell off. This post has given me inspiration though. I will prevail
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Had the same issue with an orchid we had years ago, KtK. Green stems and leaves but no blooms for a long period of time. Finally just gave up
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My wife was off today and returned back home after being gone for an hour or so with a trunk full of flowers, hanging baskets, and other things to plant. Tis that time of year.
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Love it. My wife is trying to become a hummingbird lady. We've had a cheapie feeder for years and they come. She got some expert level feeders, birdbaths, etc. So now we wait
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Hummingbirds can be a pretty nice bonus to the summer. I think it’s a good idea.
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We did flowers in pots yesterday. I tilled the garden as well. Im trying preen this year because every time I do a garden I legitimately end up with 7 foot tall weeds in what feels like a week and a half. Hoping the preen can keep it manageable.
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Looks like it might not rain on Sunday. My lawn is getting so long I'm waiting for a velociraptor to pop out of it and eat some game warden that just said "clever girl."
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No mow May… just keep growing it!
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If you let grow for too long, Vince Vaughn might show up and no one wants that.Looks like it might not rain on Sunday. My lawn is getting so long I'm waiting for a velociraptor to pop out of it and eat some game warden that just said "clever girl."
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Got 'er mowed today. It was slightly damp but not too bad. Mower only got plugged up 3 times.
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This year is absolutely bananas for our peaches. Last year was pretty great but I bet we have twice the baby peaches on the trees this year. We got within a few degrees last month of not having any.
It sucks because you have to go out and pull so many of them off the trees. If you don’t thin them out you won’t get nice peaches because the tree can’t provide nutrients for them all to grow enough. I’m coming in with hundreds of tiny peaches in my pockets and just have to pitch them.
It sucks because you have to go out and pull so many of them off the trees. If you don’t thin them out you won’t get nice peaches because the tree can’t provide nutrients for them all to grow enough. I’m coming in with hundreds of tiny peaches in my pockets and just have to pitch them.
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Not a velociraptor, but I did have to stop mowing in order to shoo a garter snake out of the mowing path and off my front lawn. No step on snek.
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Anybody got any leads on places in/near the city for native ferns? Preferably not south of the city (for obvious ease-of-driving reasons), but I mean, would still take the recs.
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We get all our plants at Petitti in Youngstown. They are pricy but high quality. They appear to carry ferns. Not that near the city I know.
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Ah okay. There's some place in Washington that's legit, but we were greedily looking for something even closer if it existed, hahaWe get all our plants at Petitti in Youngstown. They are pricy but high quality. They appear to carry ferns. Not that near the city I know.
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Got out my trenching shovel to clean out the tiny ditch I have on the uphill side of my property that channels rain water out to the street instead of turning my upper yard into a swamp. Toward the back of my house, there's a part where the hill up to my neighbor becomes too steep to mow, so it's overgrown along there, and the plants were hanging over the ditch. I accidentally scooped up what might have been the same garter snake I ran into last week. It wasn't hurt, but it was really pissed off and even reared up and was snapping the air at me. I was like, "Okay, I see you're mad, and I know that's supposed to scare me off, but you're like ten inches long and that's adorable."
No shovel snek.
No shovel snek.
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Put a raised bed garden in my yard for the first time at my house.
Just thrown together this year, tomato seeds, cucumber, and zucchini.
Cucs, no luck, tomatoes mostly good. Zucchini going crazy. Any idea how to handle the jungle those plants are becoming (zucchini)?
Just thrown together this year, tomato seeds, cucumber, and zucchini.
Cucs, no luck, tomatoes mostly good. Zucchini going crazy. Any idea how to handle the jungle those plants are becoming (zucchini)?
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Give them a separate bed and/or some lattice to climb.
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Typically just prune the **** out of it. The new growth is good so get rid of the big leaves blocking the light from the new leaves. Like, I get rid of 1/3 of the foliage every week or two
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Thx, definitely too big to move, pruning will be doneTypically just prune the **** out of it. The new growth is good so get rid of the big leaves blocking the light from the new leaves. Like, I get rid of 1/3 of the foliage every week or two
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