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Garden Report 21.02.02

Blooming: mini daffodils, hyacinths, various roses on south facing, dead nettle, camellias, rhododendron, fruitless plum, yellow pompoms, some of the hedge berries (blackberries, blueberries, misc. Vaccinium/Gaylussacia), rosemary and drum roll please (!) those tenacious straw flowers I shoved into the hedge!

Pruning: roses, ferns, fruit trees and anybody else that looks like it needs a haircut or whacked back. I’m in the mood.

Harvesting: only rosemary as needed fresh but in a week? 2? or 3? pea pods from plants planted in the grow closet in Autumn! few lettuce leafs from closet as a snack, and Russian kale from grow box in veg patch that No One but me likes (even the chickens complain!).

Moving: all those small clipped twigs stored in a heap from this summer that are semi composted and loaded with worms -- they are now being shoveled into the aviary 1) for chicken’s digging pleasure in hunting worms and crawly bugs (exercise/hunting skills/enrichment); 2) soil is saturated to where straw does nothing but mats down and remains swishable wet to the point the girls can’t/won’t turn it; 3) keeps the girls up off the soaking wet soil and warmer healthier feet.

Miscellaneous notes: Need to get help again to finish fruit trees pruning and get some one lined up to spray the apples. I’m not sure I want to still and looking for alternatives. Got a handy dandy soil test kit but I have little faith in it no matter what the nurseryman said. When you ask where the expiration date or batch number is and are told ‘don’t worry about it’, I worry about it! My basket person is MIA so all those whips and splits I am going to turn into a fence of sorts by pounding holding post and stack the brush as compactly as I can, horizontally but traveling upward in small footprint as not to waste space. As they rot, I will tamp down, and each year add more (?) IDK. Sounds like a plan but will it work, be practical and accomplish my goal. Time will tell. Anxious to get Africa in order to do straw bale planting experiment of mushrooms.

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How to Get Started Gardening (Without a Green Thumb)

Tomatoes on the vine If you are on the fence about starting a garden in 2021, and have watched all your neighbors jump into growing everything under the sun, then read the following guest post from Carrie Spencer of TheSpensersAdventures. The images are property of TheGardenDiaries. Gardening can seem intimidating when you’re just starting out. Fortunately, most plants are very forgiving, so you…

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Soil As An Evidence

Soil As An Evidence Question:- Why soil is considered as an Evidence? </br>

Answer:- Every type of soil has unique properties which act as an identification markers that's why it plays important role in criminal investigation. Forensic scientists..............

Question:- Why soil is considered as an Evidence?

Answer:- Every type of soil has unique properties which act as an identification markers that’s why it plays important role in criminal investigation. Forensic scientists consider soil as any earth material that may lead to the conclusion or can help to reconstruct the crime scene and can be way to reach to the criminal. it can be stick to the…

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