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3155. thoughtful - 6/29/2005 1:30:52 PM criminis are baby portabella mushrooms...pack a wallop of flavor.
 3156. concerned - 6/29/2005 3:54:55 PM What a dry spring and hot early summer it has been in the upper midwest. I actually have had to water my plantings & some saplings this year to ensure they don't succumb to stress.
OTOH, I have some good news to report with regard to the colorado blue spruces and even some of the western hemlocks I planted this year. Most of the (bare root) blue spruces are showing new growth and some of the hemlocks are also. Also, I am succeeding in keeping the deer away with bitter pellets and occasional applications of Deer Off. Also, my Southern Magnolia is turning it around, having suffered only moderate leaf burn over the winter with no shoot die back and growing six inches so far this year (for the previous two years, it had suffered major die back and leaf burn). And I came across a web forum where somebody not far from me (slightly northwest of me) is having good success growing a Southern Magnolia of the same cultivar as I have (Bracken's Brown Beauty - most others have failed for him). He says his flowered last year and the secret to survival in Zone 5 is not to get them too small and keep them going until they're about five years old. He says once his got established it made it through a northern Illinois winter without any leaf burn. I'm not sure I'm quite ready to accept that yet since even some conifers such as arbor vitae get leaf burn, but it'd be great if my Southern Magnolia actually became that hardy. Souther Magnolias, I find out, are also pretty unique for a flowering tree because they supposedly bloom more or less continuously throughout much of the growing season once they become established. 3157. judithathome - 6/30/2005 1:02:05 AM Good news on your trees, Con'ed! 3158. Jenerator - 7/2/2005 8:12:07 PM Cool wesbite, Jex.
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A few weeks ago, my mom and I had a garage sale of mostly my stuff. We planned on having it for two days, but the weather stopped us the first day.
Knowing that the experts hit 'em early, we set up shop at 6:30 am. By 8:00 am, we had made $250. Then the rain moved in and we made $50 more as we were packing up.
The biggest sellers were some old candy/gumball machines that my husband had from his grandparents, circa 1900 and an old rocker. The couple who bought those tried so desperately to not appear as dealers, but we knew. They kept asking us about old tools that we may have had laying around the house.
I know that those are verycollectible right now.
We had a 1960 Broyhill cabinet for sale for $30, but no one even looked at it. We wound up calling Goodwill.
The only time I got really angry was when the females tried to haggle me about clothes prices. I had some beautiful pieces I was getting rid of from St. John and Cache for $1-$5 a piece and they were trying to bring them down to $.50. I wouldn't budge and they wouldn't buy!
I wound up selling them all to other people. Oddly enough, it was the Vietnamese who were trying to bargain the most. Is that a cultural thing?
Anyway, despite the weather closing us down, we were happy to make some money that's going to the baby's room. 3159. arkymalarky - 7/2/2005 8:23:58 PM Mose sells her clothes to a place in Hot Springs called "Nearly New," and it's very handy. I don't know how much she's made, but they send checks when they sell the stuff. 3160. judithathome - 7/3/2005 12:28:23 AM Is that a cultural thing?
Maybe they just didn't have much money.
3161. Ms. No - 7/3/2005 12:33:10 AM Finally found a market where I can get Kaffir Leaves and Galanga. I'm still trying to perfect my Tom Ka Gai recipe and have decided that I don't like any of the "make do" versions that entail using Ginger and grated lime peel.
The checkout clerk at the Bangluck Market looked at what I was buying -- Galanga root, Kaffir Leaves, White Basil --- and said "Oh, you make Tom Ka Gai?" and I said "Well, I'm attempting it. I've been looking for Kaffir leaves all week. If it doesn't turn out right I'm coming back and asking you for instruction." She laughed and told me to bring her a sample.
3162. thoughtful - 7/5/2005 10:05:53 PM Help from another gardner please....we planted our tomaotes and the plants look extremely healthy. They started blossoming in early June and so far all but one of the blossoms have dried up and fallen off. We have one tomato. Any ideas why?
In past years we had a fungus attack the plants and they'd start dying from the bottom up, so someone suggested we plant them in pots instead, which we did. I'm afraid we made the soil mix too rich and that's why we're getting what we're getting.
Neighbor suggested that overnight temps have been largely too cool and it takes a certain amount of heat for the blossoms to set. He also suggested we may not have enough bees pollinating them, but we've not had that problem before.
Any suggestions? 3163. judithathome - 7/5/2005 10:58:57 PM No suggestions but I do recall someone...a neighbor? another poster?...talking about beating the tomato plants to make pollinate. 3164. thoughtful - 7/7/2005 1:52:29 PM well, i looked on the net and found an article that blossom drop is related to temperature variations and there's very little one can do about it. It's a shame. I was so hopeful having gotten blossoms on the plants so early. Our growing season is short and I so look forward to that first juicy tomato!
Well maybe we'll get some real tomaotes yet.... 3165. PelleNilsson - 7/8/2005 8:25:02 AM Construction Mania
The supports are made up by volumes of the Swedish National Encyclopedia.
3166. Macnas - 7/11/2005 10:35:45 AM What'cha making there Pelle? 3167. PelleNilsson - 7/15/2005 1:31:18 PM Sorry, Macnas, I didn't see your question until now. It's a gangway to connect the floating landing stage with the shore. It was easier to build it here than bringing all the pieces of wood over in the boat and building it there. 3168. thoughtful - 7/15/2005 2:13:28 PM Just make sure you don't build it so large that it won't fit out the door!!
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3169. Macnas - 7/15/2005 3:51:46 PM Ah, I see faith.
3170. Magoseph - 7/16/2005 4:08:26 PM My son's "Lake Room" is going well.
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