Post G24-014: Creeping Charlie puller and other garden items.
By chogan@directresearch.com
/ May 4, 2024
Creeping Charley is a weed, also know as ground ivy. When mature, it forms masses of thin vines (stolons),...
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Post #1967: Friday/Saturday this-n-that. Part 3: Vegetative propagation via air layering.
By chogan@directresearch.com
/ April 27, 2024
The set-up: Yardwork postponed is yardwork delayed. I would have gone done a bunch of gardening tasks yesterday morning,...
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Post #1966: Friday/Saturday this-n-that. Part 2: The soothing sound of … water hammer?
By chogan@directresearch.com
/ April 27, 2024
This is a brief anecdote on how yesterday's laundry morphed into today's tense, once-a-decade plumbing maintenance task, replacing the...
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Post #1965: Friday/Saturday this-n-that. Part 1: A state of decaffeination
By chogan@directresearch.com
/ April 27, 2024
It's a flannel shirt day for sure. Overcast, cold, with occasional showers. Perhaps even an un-tucked flannel shirt day....
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Post #1964: Scraping the bottom of the barrel, for artichokes.
By chogan@directresearch.com
/ April 25, 2024
This post is an anecdote about a shopping incident that snowballed. And, incidentally, how to assemble a whiskey barrel...
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Post #1963: Changing light bulbs at the rate of 1/year.
By chogan@directresearch.com
/ April 23, 2024
Back in August 2023, I changed a light bulb (Post #1840). I changed another light bulb today. Thus validating...
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Post #1962: Fire drill
By chogan@directresearch.com
/ April 21, 2024
I happened to glance at the fire extinguisher in my garage today. As shown above, it has lost pressure,...
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Post G24-012: Gang aft a-gley. Shutting down the Great Potato Chit-Off.
By chogan@directresearch.com
/ April 20, 2024
I think the takeaway is that I obviously want to chit my potatoes. Sometimes, you do your best to...
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Post G24-011: Replacing a lost watering can rosette.
By chogan@directresearch.com
/ April 19, 2024
I, like many Americans, have a plastic watering can with no rosette. Rosette being the term-of-art for "sprinkler head". ...
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Post G24-010: Growing ginger in Virginia? This needs a rethink.
By chogan@directresearch.com
/ April 15, 2024
Ginger and I have had a difficult relationship. It's not because I tried to murder her, early on, shown...
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