It was hot out, but my overgrown Callery Pear Tree still needed trimming. My kids were gracious enough to help me out - so kids - Thank You! Last time we trimmed this tree we broke a window, which still is only partially repaired. We fared much better this round.

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I keep saying I need to write this down..... So, here it is!

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Propagating Tomatoes Is Easy!
I saw a beautiful tomato plant full of fruit and ripened early - so what did I do? I asked for a cutting. Pop it in water, wait a couple of weeks, and you have a tomato plant that will grow very quickly in your garden.
Boy do I have plans for this one! This tomato is going to go in a pot either hanging in my gazebo or sitting on my wine barrel growing vertically. Maybe I need another cutting so I can do both! I guess I will have to propagate my propagation.
Happy Gardening!

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One way to resolve my rat or squirrel issue was to simply pick my avocados and put them in my refridgerator. Most of these were picked on May 21, 2024. As you can see we have thirteen reed avocados in my drawer here, and we have three more that our in our fruit-bowl in the ripening process......

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I was doing a little looking back at my gardening pictures and I saw my first planting of two of my avocado trees in 2014, the Reed Avocado and the Hass Avocado which I have been enjoying the fruits this month.

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This book is Fantastic. Here again is another thing in my life that I wondered why I never had heard of this stuff before. I heard about this book many years ago but I never got around to reading it. I guess I still have a lot of catching up to do.....

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I have always thought that you couldn’t really exercise while you were fasting. This was because I didn’t really understand the body glucose and ketosis mechanisms. Well, after 20 hours, this is what actually happened.....

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The white powder or spots you are seeing on your zucchini leaves is most likely powdery mildew, a common fungal disease that affects zucchini and other cucurbit plants.

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When I started hearing chatter about the dangers of AI over the past year, I thought people were going a bit overboard. I thought the reality of AI actually doing what we see in Science Fiction Movies being rather ridiculous, but now that I listened to an intelligent discussion……

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The financial community is starting to figure out that the Federal Reserve has not reversed directions yet to lower interest rates, and that there is not much clarity that they will do so. This is causing interest rates to continue to climb along with some other factors

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