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Like these petunia and gerberas.

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Gardening is hard work, watering for 2 hours each day, pricking tomato laterals, and mowing, weeding mulching etc. But the rewards are there also. Like growing flowers just for fun, how amazing God’s designing abilities are.

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Watermelons still growing, the one in the middle is the size of a soccer ball, about 10 Kg I reckon.

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Corn is nearly finished, freezed alot of corn as well as eating heaps. The late comers are still growing to finish.

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The timber support is to prevent wind blowing the tomato bushes over off their trellis

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And very extensive

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The tomato bushes are very high, way over my head.

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Rejects go here. You get tomato grubs, fruit fly causing brown rot, red back spiders, and some holes in them you can’t explain why. The difference between tomatoes you buy at the shops and the ones I grow at home is the amount of pesticides used. Mine are not toxic to humans, but the tomatoes come with yuck look to those not used to off_grid_living.

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My outdoors table (stainless steel, chopping board and bucket of tomatoes

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I reject any with fungus (white hairs) growing on them, the oven wasn’t too enough, quick enough to dry out the liquid in this one.

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Sundried yesterday

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Sundried 2 days ago

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Sundried 1 day ago

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I made a home made solar drier, to make sun dried tomatoes, with wire mesh, bottom sheet metal, glass and fly screens to keep flies off.

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↳ In-reply-to » so my friend gave me a bean. it grew into a huge beanstalk and now we have lots of beans, does anyone know what sort of beans these are? Media

@kt84@twtxt.net They look like Pinto Beans. Expensive to buy in the health food shops.

↳ In-reply-to » How does a 7-year-old child write such a lovely rhymical and rhyme poem?

And Lilly wrote this all by herself?

How does a 7-year-old child write such a lovely rhymical and rhyme poem?

What happened to the “mentions” tab?

↳ In-reply-to » Media Set up the scaffold for the 6 pulley system.

Thanks Lyse, took quite a while to figure it out, being six pulleys, it easily allowed me to lift the 250Kg tank easily.