Rebecca Branham

My carrot problems here in the PNW has been slugs eating the young plants.  I've found seeding carrots during time periods of lesser slug activity helps.  And adding bonemeal helps solve the not filing out problem.  I can have lovely greens that don't have much underground.

At a former garden, I had everbearing strawberry plants that were called a "crown" variety.  They were entirely runnerless (unless stressed---then there would sometimes be some runners.)   To reproduce, they made another plant(s) right along side the original = every 3-4 years you had to dig up the clump that was now 50+ plants.  The original and older center plants had deteriorated, thus forming the ring/crown of younger plants.
This past spring, I wanted to establish a strawberry bed.  I spent hours on the Internet and couldn't find anything but alpine strawberries that were runnerless.  I've raised red and yellow alpine strawberries from seed before---totally different from what i was looking for.
Does anyone recognize what I've described?

YouTube has a couple of videos about manual hay balers.

Revitalized old post.  Writing to comment on the stinky compost.  It smells because it is too wet; it is anaerobic.  Anaerobic bacteria are not the ones you want.  The stinky compost will have to dry out and become populated with aerobic bacteria before it is useful.  Actually, before it is not harmful.
The solution is to also put in dry carbonous material when filling the bucket---to balance the wet nitrogen rich vegies.

I make ghee because I can't tolerate the cassein protein = I discard the bottom-of-the-pan stuff.  Am writing to just say it's not necessary to skim the foam during the process, because it is the water boiling off and will soon be gone.  When the foam is all gone and you can see the bottom of the pan through the clear ghee, it's time to pour out of the pan.  If all the milk solids haven't settled, straining will catch them, but you have clarified butter.  More cooking will get you to ghee.

I've experienced gophers not crossing a bed of daffodils to get into the garden....

My question would be to ask you about her diet.  How much research have you done on the topic?  Wet food vs dry food.  Any raw?  Grain free isn't enough, because some brands use potato and tapioca starch.  Carrageenan and gum free?  American pet food rules say if the food contains more than 25% fish, vitamin K must be added (because vitamin K isn't available from fish) and the only approved (synthetic) vitamin k supplement is bad.

I'm sorry you all are having such a difficult time.  It sounds like you are investing lots of effort and energy into reversing the flea situation.  I wish you all a success!

Until it freezes, you could be bringing fleas into the house from the yard on your shoes.  I went through the flea fight with my indoor cats---even in a 3rd floor apt. in a cement block building!

I've never been able to get the little brown thingee they give you for priming the new filters to seal sufficiently around a faucet to work.  I found a turkey baster accomplished the task.  Slow, but it worked to fill the filter with water.

Cooked pumpkin/squash seeds will grow.  Numerous volunteers in the compost pile.

When my tree collards get too tall to harvest, I make cuttings and start over.  I cut the stem tip about 6" below the first/smallest leaf---usually trimming off all the other leaves---to cause less stress to the plant when it has only that small leaf surface to support.  I plant the cutting up to it's leaf(s) in a one gallon pot, cover with an inverted plastic bag (for humidity and to not need to water it) for 2 months.  By that time the new plant has enough of a root system to be planted out.