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Deluxestogie Grow Log 2022
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Cottontail?
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Homegrowngoodnes
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Mmm stew
Eastern Cottontail.
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We have cottontails (imported from the U.S. for hunting purposes in the 70’s) but I can’t tell the difference… ours have a hare-like color, maybe we have some westerners here.
pier
Edit: nope, I checked and the cottontails we have are Sylvilagus floridanus, i.e. eastern cottontail. Very different color though… must be the consequences of spaghetti-based diet LOL
pier
Edit: nope, I checked and the cottontails we have are Sylvilagus floridanus, i.e. eastern cottontail. Very different color though… must be the consequences of spaghetti-based diet LOL
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Some years I have dozens of cottontails on this 1 acre. Some years, foxes and hawks keep the bunny count low. And of course, most summers there are two or three rabbit road-kills being pecked by vultures per mile of road. Even with those big eyes, they never look before crossing.
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Moments ago, while driving to my corner store (~1 mile away), I saw a fresh roadkill at an intersection where everybody supposedly drives more cautiously. It was a coyote. Score one for the rabbits!
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I have not used a long handle garden hoe for several years. I purchased one yesterday. (A genuine, American Craftsman® tool, with the word, "CHINA3" stamped into its forged steel head. It's guaranteed to outlast Bob.) I used it yesterday evening, and again this morning. I have to say that it is not the right tool for the job, when weeding untilled garden beds. The correct tool is to till the beds prior to planting! So far, I've managed to weed 3¼ beds with my shiny, new, long handle garden hoe. Only 4¼ beds to go.
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So far, no watering and no hornworms.
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Homegrowngoodnes
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Hopefully you don't bite your tongue lol
My local hornworms have advance reservations to arrive on 20 June. Check-in time 2:00 am. So I'll be spraying BT weekly after that.
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Oh, man! Pandemics, supply chains, employment vacancies. Even my hornworms are late. No sign as of this evening.
Sounds like I've been on top of things. I haven't. I just spent a week away from home. My son and his family drove up from Alabama, and we spent a week together in a mountain cabin near Damascus, VA. Wonderful time.
I arrived back home Saturday evening. It's now Tuesday evening, and it's the first time I've gone out to the garden since before I left for the trip. I was going to spray the tobacco with BT this evening, but I'll wait for some sign of hornworms. Somebody's got a lot of weeding to do. All the tobacco looks reasonably healthy. I ate my first ripe blackberries tonight, picked the last of my garden peas (They've concluded that their work here is done.), and primed the seco leaf from my bolted bok choi.
Still lots of tree branches to clear from the yard because of last week's storm, before I get to mow again.
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Sounds like I've been on top of things. I haven't. I just spent a week away from home. My son and his family drove up from Alabama, and we spent a week together in a mountain cabin near Damascus, VA. Wonderful time.
I arrived back home Saturday evening. It's now Tuesday evening, and it's the first time I've gone out to the garden since before I left for the trip. I was going to spray the tobacco with BT this evening, but I'll wait for some sign of hornworms. Somebody's got a lot of weeding to do. All the tobacco looks reasonably healthy. I ate my first ripe blackberries tonight, picked the last of my garden peas (They've concluded that their work here is done.), and primed the seco leaf from my bolted bok choi.
Still lots of tree branches to clear from the yard because of last week's storm, before I get to mow again.
Bob
At 8:00 am this morning, while sitting on my front porch, I heard the sound of a cottontail rabbit galloping. I see them scurrying silently through the grass, in one direction or another all the time. But my "gravel" driveway has become stretches of packed sod and silt (thanks to nearby construction with an inadequate silt barrier). It was on this dry, compacted surface that the adult rabbit galloped. And I could hear it, like a galloping horse wearing a plush toy on each hoof.
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I ordered some stuff from Walmart, and they emailed me a FREE portrait. How nice!
Computer in my lap. Cheap stuff from Walmart wrapped in ballistic armor packaging.
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Computer in my lap. Cheap stuff from Walmart wrapped in ballistic armor packaging.
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A back ache awakened me today while it was still dark outside. Somehow, in the blur of my sleepy mind, I recalled having checked the forecast for this morning, to decide if it would be too cloudy for something. Cloudy? Something? The planets! Would it be worth getting up at 5:00 am to look for the alignment of the planets in the pre-dawn sky! (The forecast had predicted 25% cloud cover.)
I checked the clock. 5:00 am. I dressed in the dark (don't want to spoil that night vision), then groped around my back porch for my headlamp that can shine a red-only beam. I put on a sock hat and a thick fleece vest (never know how chilly it might be at 5:00 am). In the darkness, I went outside, averting my gaze from the scattered insecurity lights of neighbors, and walked out toward the paved road. (I was over-dressed for the lovely, 60°F morning.)
Half-way down my driveway, an unseen raccoon growled at me from one of the big maple trees in my front yard. I growled back, and continued to the road. (It must have been that unblinking, red eye staring at him that encouraged the raccoon to concede this particular confrontation.) The sky was mostly clear, in a soft shade of pre-dawn blue. There were patchy areas of barely discernible haze.
This sky map has to show the interior of a spherical dome, so the planets appear on a curve. In reality, they were stretched out along a nearly straight line.
I immediately identified Venus and the fingernail Moon. Jupiter was obvious, but Mars was missing. And I did not have a clear view of the sky where Saturn should have been. Almost directly overhead, the unmistakable, steady light of sun reflecting from the solar panels of the International Space Station slowly cruised from zenith toward the northeast. Looking directly at Venus, I could detect a faint presence where Mercury should be. [Only the planetary alignment, and the exact knowledge of where it should be allowed me to be confident about it.]
Even though Mars and Saturn were missing in action (one behind haze, the other behind towering trees), I wish to thank my back ache for getting me out of bed at the proper time on a stunning, summer morning.
As I type this, I sip on a mug of black coffee, puff a delicious cigar, and squint into the morning sun.
Bob
I checked the clock. 5:00 am. I dressed in the dark (don't want to spoil that night vision), then groped around my back porch for my headlamp that can shine a red-only beam. I put on a sock hat and a thick fleece vest (never know how chilly it might be at 5:00 am). In the darkness, I went outside, averting my gaze from the scattered insecurity lights of neighbors, and walked out toward the paved road. (I was over-dressed for the lovely, 60°F morning.)
Half-way down my driveway, an unseen raccoon growled at me from one of the big maple trees in my front yard. I growled back, and continued to the road. (It must have been that unblinking, red eye staring at him that encouraged the raccoon to concede this particular confrontation.) The sky was mostly clear, in a soft shade of pre-dawn blue. There were patchy areas of barely discernible haze.
This sky map has to show the interior of a spherical dome, so the planets appear on a curve. In reality, they were stretched out along a nearly straight line.
I immediately identified Venus and the fingernail Moon. Jupiter was obvious, but Mars was missing. And I did not have a clear view of the sky where Saturn should have been. Almost directly overhead, the unmistakable, steady light of sun reflecting from the solar panels of the International Space Station slowly cruised from zenith toward the northeast. Looking directly at Venus, I could detect a faint presence where Mercury should be. [Only the planetary alignment, and the exact knowledge of where it should be allowed me to be confident about it.]
Even though Mars and Saturn were missing in action (one behind haze, the other behind towering trees), I wish to thank my back ache for getting me out of bed at the proper time on a stunning, summer morning.
As I type this, I sip on a mug of black coffee, puff a delicious cigar, and squint into the morning sun.
Bob
Bob
GreenDragon
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Sounds like you had a great view. Nasa has a site that will tell you when the ISS can be seen from your location: https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/
I was able to track it through my 8" scope for 3 minutes recently. Makes me smile every time.
I went to that site prior to posting this morning, to verify that the ISS did indeed pass overhead this morning, though I had little doubt. The conditions were perfect (pre-dawn, clear sky overhead) and the brightness, speed, direction and the quality of the reflection were what I have witnessed in the past, though shortly after sunset. I think that's the highest overhead that I've seen the ISS. It's got to have direct sunlight while I have none.
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Oh man! Hands and knees. I just seriously weeded my tobacco bed alongside the back of the house: Ainaro and Prilep 66-9/7. The plants look presentable, despite cricket feasting. Everything I just cleared away grew from seed, since the bed had been nuked with glyphosate in the spring.
I didn't use a hoe, since I wanted to yank the grass and weeds up by their roots. When the tobacco gets a good head start, it shades out the weeds. But this year, my timing was off.
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I didn't use a hoe, since I wanted to yank the grass and weeds up by their roots. When the tobacco gets a good head start, it shades out the weeds. But this year, my timing was off.
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