It has been brought to my attention that Duke feels he is being misrepresented as a sopping-wet rat in my last post. In the interest of fairness, here's what he looks like when he's dry. The scruffiness is off the charts. Look at this guy. Every hair on his head is an independent contractor going its own way.
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You can give Duke a bath, but you'd better be prepared for the massive guilt trip that he's gonna lay on you for it...
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That looks a lot like frost damage. It looks like the damage is only on the older leaves and the new leaves are OK, is that correct? Any chance this plant has been exposed to cold weather? If that's what happened, the plant will probably grow out of it. Once the new leaves have grown large enough, just prune off the frostbitten leaves.
Talk to the flower farm folks and see if there's something she can do as a "subcontractor" for them. Maybe planting seeds in starter trays or something, then selling the seedlings to them wholesale. Depends on how they run their operation, I guess. But that way she'd have her own business that she has to learn to manage instead of just being an employee. Getting paid by the piece rather than the hour teaches you a lot about how to work efficiently...
We are now in the midst of Autumn which means it is finally Spinach season again. So far we have managed to baby Lettuce through Summer but Spinach is proving to be a seasonal crop for us. Each of these beds has over 260 seedling and we harvest weekly with scissors, thinning them out and they come back. We don't bother sorting the leaves and generally sell all that we grow.
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Spinach is a light-dependent plant, which means that once the days get longer than a certain number of hours (12-13 for most varieties), they'll start to flower. Temperature doesn't matter much, unlike with lettuce that bolts above a certain soil temperature. So summertime spinach is nearly impossible unless you use some kind of blackout material to limit the light hours or receives.
I hope you're having a great day, but if it's not so great, here's a couple of fat old #donkeys making out to cheer you up. And if it's already an awesome day for you, here's a couple of fat old donkeys making out anyway.
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Norton Commander! The 80s were a magical time of wondrous technology. Would've given you bonus points if it was running on OS/2.
Wow, that's a little freaky how similar they are. Here I was thinking she was unique, and you've got a duplicate!
You know how cutting off posts square and even is almost impossible? How you get a raggedy-ass cut if you try to use a circular saw because you can't ever line up the multiple cuts needed to get through a 4x4 or 6x6 post? Get some scraps of angle iron and bolt them together like this to make a jig to guide a Sawzall blade. Clamp it on to the post using the long bolts, slide the saw blade into the guide (use washers on the short bolts between the two pieces of angle iron to act as a spacer for the blade), and it's a perfect, square, smooth cut every time. If you're careful squaring it up, and getting it securely clamped, it even works on round posts.
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Junebug isn't especially useful around the homestead, but damn, she's photogenic...
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