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    From David Smith@954:895/30 to All on Sun Jun 18 11:38:56 2023
    Anyone having any luck with a garden this year? Mine was doing pretty good until my neigbor's horses got out and ate my pea plants! I'm hoping they will come back but maybe a little too late for them.

    Anyway, we picked green beans yesterday and canned 6 quarts so I'm pleased with that! Harvested some potatoes yesterday as well. I have some peanuts in the ground that I hope will come up but the weeds are slowly winning the battle there!

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  • From Mike Dippel@954:895/1 to David Smith on Sun Jun 18 18:49:42 2023
    On 6/18/2023 11:43 AM, David Smith wrote to All:

    Anyone having any luck with a garden this year? Mine was doing pretty good until my neigbor's horses got out and ate my pea plants! I'm hoping they will
    come back but maybe a little too late for them.

    Anyway, we picked green beans yesterday and canned 6 quarts so I'm pleased with
    that! Harvested some potatoes yesterday as well. I have some peanuts in the ground that I hope will come up but the weeds are slowly winning the battle there!

    When I moved to Florida in 1981, I thought that I could grow my own vegetables and
    have ripe grapefruit and oranges. Unfortunately, it is difficult for me to have my wn
    garden.

    The complex where I live has a Garden Club, but it takes a membership and some members are known to steal your stuff. Bad, bad.

    Mike Dippel

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  • From David Smith@954:895/30 to Mike Dippel on Fri Jun 23 11:42:40 2023
    When I moved to Florida in 1981, I thought that I could grow my own vegetables and
    have ripe grapefruit and oranges. Unfortunately, it is difficult for me to have my wn
    garden.
    The complex where I live has a Garden Club, but it takes a membership
    and some members are known to steal your stuff. Bad, bad.

    My biggest thieves seem to be the varmets. Between the neigbor's horses who keep getting out and the deer and rabbits I can't seem to grow any peas!

    ... I put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing changed.

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  • From Mike Dippel@954:895/1 to David Smith on Fri Jun 23 15:06:18 2023
    On 6/23/2023 11:47 AM, David Smith wrote to Mike Dippel:

    When I moved to Florida in 1981, I thought that I could grow my own vegetables and
    have ripe grapefruit and oranges. Unfortunately, it is difficult for me
    to have my wn
    garden.
    The complex where I live has a Garden Club, but it takes a membership and some members are known to steal your stuff. Bad, bad.

    My biggest thieves seem to be the varmints. Between the neighbor's horses who
    keep getting out and the deer and rabbits I can't seem to grow any peas!

    Sounds like you live in the country? I live in a gated area of the city that abuts a State
    Park. The park has all kinds of varmints, including wild boar. When I first moved in, I
    noticed that the lawn was a little sparse, and I love a beautiful lawn. Turns out that the
    boars hunted grubs shortly before we moved here, and they tore up the lawn.

    We do see them on occasion if the area is dry and they decide to cross back into our
    area when the water recedes a bit.

    We do have the occasional deer, armadillo, an occasional panther but that is rare.

    Mike Dippel

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  • From David Smith@954:895/30 to Mike Dippel on Sat Jul 1 11:27:30 2023
    Sounds like you live in the country? I live in a gated area of the city that abuts a State
    Park. The park has all kinds of varmints, including wild boar. When I first moved in, I
    noticed that the lawn was a little sparse, and I love a beautiful lawn. Turns out that the
    boars hunted grubs shortly before we moved here, and they tore up the lawn.

    Yep I'm way out in the country here. I have about 6 acres of land a lot of it is overtaken by bamboo but I have about a 2 acre area for a garden. I've been growing sugarcane in most of it for years now with the intention of getting equipment to make syrup. I carried a bunch of it to other places to make syrup but last year the early frost got it all before I could do anything with it. This year I decideed to plow most of it up and try gardening. Unfortunately this year was mostly just learning what not to do!

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  • From Mike Dippel@954:895/1 to David Smith on Sun Jul 2 00:31:32 2023
    On 7/1/2023 11:32 AM, David Smith wrote to Mike Dippel:


    Yep I'm way out in the country here. I have about 6 acres of land a lot of it
    is overtaken by bamboo but I have about a 2 acre area for a garden. I've been
    growing sugarcane in most of it for years now with the intention of getting equipment to make syrup. I carried a bunch of it to other places to make syrup
    but last year the early frost got it all before I could do anything with it. This year I decided to plow most of it up and try gardening. Unfortunately this year was mostly just learning what not to do!

    Any market for the bamboo? Seems like there would be, and it tends to grow fast.

    Mike Dippel

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  • From David Smith@954:895/30 to Mike Dippel on Wed Jul 12 16:52:08 2023
    Any market for the bamboo? Seems like there would be, and it tends to grow fast.

    If I could find one I could be rich! The variety I have is very invasive. I know they use bamboo for a lot of things but haven't found a way to actually market it

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