We were talking about that on Usenet, list servers, Yahoo groups and the Cafe. I've come to believe it'll never happen.
But, shoot a deer from the road and an MDC SWAT team will hunt you down, take your stuff and there will be a Facebook article about it.
I don't know what the answer is.
Welp, mother in law turns 80 next month, and now there's a trip to IA coming. And when there's a trip to IA, I like to get up to the Driftless Area. Like the brochure says, 'The glaciers missed us. Make sure you don't!' So maybe there'll be another Driftless trip report soon. Just booked a place in Decorah.
This will the first time in the last few year that I'm not 'guiding' someone, so that'll be nice
I had a small asparagus bed for several years. Don't remember the variety, but it was supposed to be all male or female -- whichever is the good one. It wasn't. I got a lot of enjoyment out of that -- always the first thing going each year. But it was a pain to keep clean and it would spread outside the bed like you're saying.
New Glarus, WI is a cool little town and that brewery is a good one.
They have a Beer, Bacon and Cheese Festival each summer. My sister is in the Chicago suburbs so we have gone up there with her a couple times. About 2 hours from her house. Pretty fun and lots of different things to try. Got talked into doing bacon/maple ice cream and it was very good. Never would have thought it would work with bacon but it did.
Have a friend that really likes Spotted Cow so I brought some back for him one year.
I do a lot of heirloom stuff in my small garden. I like Baker Creek and Seed Savers for those. Also Johnny's, Territorial Seed.
Here's a list of some of my favorites from a spreadsheet I keep:
Plant Variety
Bean (bush) Dragon Tongue
Bean (bush) Kentucky Wonder
Carrot Danvers
Carrot Scarlet Nantes
Lettuce (butterhead) Bunte Forellenschluss
Lettuce (butterhead) Tom Thumb
Lettuce (butterhead) Yugoslavian Red
Lettuce (crisphead) Webb's Wonderful
Lettuce (leaf) Green Ice
Lettuce (leaf) Red Salad Bowl
Lettuce (leaf) Slobolt
Lettuce (romaine) Forellenschluss
Pea Amish Snap
Pea Dwarf Grey Sugar
Pea Sugar Ann
Tomato (det.) Celebrity
Tomato (det.) Early Girl
Tomato (indet.) Black Krim
Tomato (indet.) Brandywine (Glick's)
Tomato (indet.) Cherokee Purple
Tomato (indet.) Sun Gold
Sand helps keep the soil broken up and makes for better root growth. I've seen it said to add ⅓ sand, but a little research on that is probably in order.
Good luck!
Did a double-take on that flag; I thought it was the stars and bars for a second. Those scandahoovians are sure proud of their heritage! And upper midwest folks are some of the nicest you'll find anywhere.
Great write up! Sorry Pat got flashed at the golf course.
Those brookies are beauties, and it’s cool that they’re native. Also cool the level of access available in the Driftless.
Now it's Toyota and Lebanon Bologna.
Months ago I saw something about Lebanon Bologna on another forum, so I Googled it. They have been after me ever since. I just searched that forum and the topic came up November 2020. Poor whoever spending all that money on me
Cool video!
We’ve got a mouse that lives in our compost bin. Wife said get rid of him but I said he’s just a mouse being a mouse and not hurting anything.
Now we’re losing garden stuff to mice so it’s gonna have to stop.
When I moved out here (west side) in 1990 it was a lot different. We built this house in 2000, but before they developed this neighborhood it was a wheat field. I brought my babies here to show them what a wheat field looked like. A friend of mine used to hunt quail along the fence line at the back of my property, and we used to find shells back there until we cleaned it all up.
30 years is a long time, but it boggles my mind the development out here. Our old vet owned land a little west of the SW corner of I-435 and 87th Street in Lenexa. He told me where I could find the key to the gate so I could run my Brittany out there. Here it is now. I used to park on Renner and go in where the Lofts are: