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Unhappy cucumbers in a greenhouse with aluminum framework
it is a hot summer. I have a greenhouse with aluminum framework. So far I always had good crops of cucumbers and tomatoes. Not this year. I have already noticed that cucumbers do not want to climb the Aluminium support poles. I touched the poles. They were so hot. No surprise. I covered Aluminium by winding threads round…
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A Palestinian Gourd
I read an article in Modern Farmer about a Palestinian gourd- I’ll include the link to it. I grew just one this year and I’m pretty excited. The vine looks like it’s preparing to take over the world, shading out my butternut squash and duking it out big time with my monster loofah plant. The flowers are surprisingly…
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Favorite Recipes for Swiss Chard
I have Swiss Chard coming out of my ears. I can easily pick it every single day. I love it but nothing sounds really great. I guess I could always make it into a powder. Does a dehydrator work for this? Does anyone know? It is starting to get hot again. Mostly in the 90's.
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Zucchini pruning and pollination
It’s not yet zucchini time in my garden but for you folks having a great summer, I found this useful video on pruning and pollination of zucchini’s. And I did learn something today. All this time I thought my tiny zucchini fruit had calcium deficiency and rotted and dropped off, seems it was mostly a pollination issue. I…
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The Vegetable Seller
We've discussed Medieval vegetables on the forum before, so I thought some of you might enjoy this. The focus of the article was on the restoration of a 16th. century painting- but I was enjoying looking at the 16th. century vegetable selection.…
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Does Saw Palmetto help Wrinkles?
Before Covid the skin on my face had few wrinkles. During Covid I got wrinkles! I have tried at various times using Coconut Oil. My granddaughter (17) says if you use Saw Palmetto (don't buy it here in the US). How does it help, where do I purchase it, does it work or do I need to combine it with something else?
