Gardening: Plants, Flowers, Veggies, Trees and All Things Green

[ccs29745]

I never burn pine in the fireplace. Creosote can def cause chimney fires. You guys who’ve had one are lucky.

They can be extremely dangerous.

We burn and sell ash, maple, oak, black locust (super dense and burns hot.) even some black walnut.

Ash is the best way to go because of the ash blight. Plentiful, burns hot, easy to split.

The trees we've been cutting down, I put by road for anyone to take. No one was taking it, so I put a 20 dollar sign on it and the pile was gone soon after. Didn't have the heart to tell the ladies it was free until after they loaded it and tried to leave like I didn't see them. Lol

 

[nock]

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Bitter melon and chicken in soup
or cut them in smaller pieces and stir fry with olive oil.
make sure you clean the seeds and scrap it inside

and don't forget a bit of garlic

 

[Lily13]

Our garden is done for now. I kept the colorful pillows out there to give me some interest, but the fountain froze over, so I had to bring it in. Only four more months and things start growing again. Can’t wait!

 

[Wonderer67]

What I like about January is getting all of the cool gardening and seed catalogs.

We’ve had poor pumpkin crops for the last two years, so I’m gonna buy a bunch of heirloom seeds this year. See if it’s the seeds, the soil or maybe a pest.

 

[ccs29745]

Pumpkins sucked this year. Changing some of the crops this year so I don't waste so much space