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Careful growing New Zealand spinach. A spinach with new zeal which will take over your land. It self-seeds every year, grows like crazy, that is one vegetable I never have to worry about weeds. It crowds out even crabgrass. dcarch
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It's a very strange year here in NY for tomatoes: 1. Lots of rain, rain, rain, but not one single fruit has cracked. ( I have 85 plants) 2. Many fruits 1/2 ripe red and 1/2 green. (can't tell about GWR varieties π ) 3. Excessive green shoulders. 4. You know those funny looking donut peaches? Many tomatoes, big and small came out flattened ?! Also, many varieties are coming out not true to the variety. I figure that's problems of supply chain issues of the past few years. I have a computerized labeling and tracking system. I don't think those are my mistakes. dcarch
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Found this monster this morning. At first, I thought it was three or four tomatoes crowded together, then I was surprised. I was able to find only one stem. Just about three pounds. Picture shows next to a one-pounder. dcarch
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Because bacon is a very nice seasoning for tomatoes π dcarch
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My ultimate tomato sandwich: 1, remove skin. 2. Remove seeds. 3. thick slices into dehydrator and dehydrate halfway to concentrate flavor and to remove some moisture so bacon and bread do not get soggy. 4. make sandwich and enjoy. dcarch
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Actually it's this one, made with leftover electric conduits. Very effective to deal with heavy odd shaped objects. dcarch
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Yes, two methods considered. Hammer drill holes deep enough for rock splitting wedges. It took a while to drill granite at 2.5" spacing, 7" deep . If that fails, I would drill (diamond core drill) 1.5" holes( 14" deep). Holes at 8" x 8", then fill holes with demolition expanding cement to crack the boulder. If the above two methods failed, I may go with what heidith had suggested dynamite!!! π dcarch
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Some politician may say you have small hands. π€£π€£π€£ Is that your electric fence system? dcarch
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Done! Cracked the boulder into 5 sections, made a tool so I could grab the heavy pieces out from the deep pit without breaking my back. Moved the dirt back into the pit and planted the fig tree. dcarch
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That's bad news! I hope they don't visit NY. I built a large bird feeder. I am very happy that it is attracting a lot of birds. May be birds are not vegetarians. dcarch
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When I first discovered the boulder, letting it stay option was considered. However, I have very poor muddy soil which does not drain well. I also want to plant decorative (may be edible) flowering plants under the fig tree. So I need to go really deep and re-mix the soil with lots of compost, sand and crashed charcoal from the fire pit. dcarch
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That's a good spot visually in my garden, besides, it's not far from my electric fence system. I think squirrels like figs too. No explosives used. Those are Rock splitting wedges. dcarch
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There is a spot in my garden where I feel will be perfect for a fig tree. So I started to dig for the fig. About 18" down, I found this huge boulder. I estimate it weights about 500 lbs. I really like this spot so I need to fig ure out how to get this monster out from the deep pit. I decided I need to split the boulder into many smaller pieces. Today, I managed to split it into two. It got too hot. I will try again tomorrow. dcarch
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ScottyBoy, long time no see! dcarch
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I was visiting my sister in Canada. I asked her, "Sister, are you wearing contacts?" " No, I don't have contacts." "And you are reading news paper without eyeglasses? What happened to your reading glasses?" "After I have been eating goji leaves and berries for a while, I discovered that I could read normally without eyeglasses." Still I don't consider that a proof. I eat goji because I like the taste, and it's free. π dcarch
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"βPlacebos are extraordinary drugs. They seem to have some effect on almost every symptom known to mankind, and work in at least a third of patients and sometimes in up to 60 percent." The Placebo effect works on me very well. πππ dcarch
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I get huge supplies from my garden. You can buy them from Chinese markets, but they are not cheap and they are too old and tough. Not like the ones from the garden. Gogi leaves and berries are supposed to be very healthy, medicinal. dcarch
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I learned that I am stupid. I had not been able to find a sprayer that I like. I don't have a huge garden, but my garden is big enough that spraying on a hot summer day is not a pleasant task. Also, I need a sprayer with a long wand, and an adjustable spray head that can spray upside-down (bottom of leaves). So I made my own, very proud that a motorized sprayer which can do everything I want. I filled the 2 gallon sprayer with Daconil and gave all my (80?) tomato seedlings a thorough shower. Well, a day later, all the seedlings died. I didn't realize the sprayer had some weed killer solution leftover from last season. Good thing it was early enough. I was able to redo everything. dcarch
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For the first time, they are available in NYC Chinatown. The big ones at $9.00 a lb. I bought a few to taste, pretty good. Not so good that I will pay $9.00 a lb. I am sure the price will come down. Interesting about these mangos, you can eat them even when they are not fully ripe. dcarch
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When I make head on shrimps I also take out the digestive tracks, like Winoo's picture. dcarch
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Just when asparagus season is winding down in my garden, garlic scapes are showing up. Made smoked ribs, grilled pine apple and watermelon rind, on garlic scapes. dcarch
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I am truly sorry for many of you, those in all parts of the world who have to deal with this problem for now and for a very long time to come. I feel very lucky, before the pandemic, in trying to be environmentally sensible, I focused in making my garden more efficient; I compost 100% waste to minimize the use of fertilizers, I home-built a 3,000 watt solar system, and a 1,000 gallon rainwater system. This is helping to minimize the inflation pain somewhat. With food price not coming down soon, I am thinking of raising chickens . Here not far from NYC, hunting is not a good idea. Shelby, please help!!! dcarch
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Eye opening! Thank you. dcarch
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Finally I was able to find some fiddlehead fern. Made pan fried Bronzino with black garlic sauce to go with this dish. dcarch
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Thanks. The mochi coffee ice cream tasted nice. My challenge was to fine a way to make mochi shaped into a little spherical ball. That was not successful because the dough was sticky and the ice cream was melting fast. So I took a shortcut and made mochi ice cream sandwiches instead. dcarch