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Square Foot Gardening: How to Get Started for $50 (Infographic) - Frugaldad.com
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Common Sense for College by Frugal Dad. Teaching your Kids Financial Literacy. Tips and Tricks for College Students. Find a Cheap College. Square Foot Gardening: How to Get Started for $50 (Infographic). Square Foot Gardening: How to Get Started for $50 (Infographic). April 30, 2012. My 2008 post, How to Build a Square Foot Garden. April 30, 2012 at 1:04 pm. Question. Do you garden this way? Do you get rid of your soil after each plant is done as mentioned above? What do you do with that soil? He’s...
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Blue Jay Barrens: Tadpole Feeding Frenzy
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Friday, May 1, 2015. This is a typical Wood Frog tadpole dispersal pattern. Each tadpole is engaged in a random search for food. They nibble their way across the pond bottom, check every surface of submerged plant material, and even turn belly up to skim the film of pollen grains from the water’s surface. Occasionally, an especially appealing food source will cause a pile-up of tadpoles. These tadpoles are all competing for some tasty morsel hidden from view by the mass of tadpole bodies. My discussions ...
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Blue Jay Barrens: Harvesting Draba Seeds
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015. This could pass as a Martian landscape, but it is actually a portion of the seed I harvested today from my container grown Draba cuneifolia. I decided to try using my shop vac as a harvester. My shop vac is a bagless model, so I took a clean sweeper bag and modified it to fit the inlet pipe on the inside of the shop vac dirt chamber. Then I directed the sweeper hose towards the plants and the seeds quickly disappeared. I just hoped everything was ending up in the bag. Draba seeds...
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Blue Jay Barrens: March 2015
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Monday, March 30, 2015. The bulk of salamander and Wood Frog egg laying at Blue Jay Barrens occurred between March 13 and March 17. In the two weeks since egg laying began, air temperatures have ranged from a low of 10. F Water temperature has not suffered such wild fluctuations, due to the constant inflow of relatively warm spring water. Despite these varying conditions, development of salamander eggs is progressing at a rapid pace. Once the lower surfaces were covered with eggs, the salamanders began a...
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Pamela J: You are so right Mr. President. It IS puzzling.
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Thursday, November 27, 2014. You are so right Mr. President. It IS puzzling. It is a little puzzling that I do this every year, but . it's nice once in a while just to say, 'Happy Thanksgiving.'". About pardoning a big turkey at the White House. Update: 12/2/2014: Little did I know last week that the Obama girls would inspire TurkeyGate. In case you've avoided Internet "news" lately you might not know that a lame Congressional staffer had to quit her job over a mean-spirited Facebook comment. There is so...
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Pamela J: Georgetown mystery.
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Tuesday, December 23, 2014. She used to live in Georgetown but I don't think she drove 4 hours from her current home in the northern Appalachian Mountains to put it there. On the other hand, my sister - an obsessive mushroom forager - is whimsical and prone to unplanned, riotous acts so who knows. Here's the church in October:. Posted by Pam J. It is beautiful, but the fungus is.um, unusual? December 23, 2014 at 8:24 PM. Oh, how I wish I had done that . ha! December 24, 2014 at 3:59 PM. Nowhere Near the ...
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Biotope Design: October 2011
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Sunday, 30 October 2011. Black Locust Savanna at Iron Bridge Prairie. The savannas in the prairie region mainly consist of Bur Oak,. But here at the Iron Bridge Prairie at Midewin. It is a small savanna or rather open woodland of Black Locust,. The Black Locust is a lovely tree with ornamental branches and a open, loose crown with a scanty leafage that allow some light to pass to the ground and permit a rich understory of grasses and forbs. The Iron Bridge Prairie. And Wild Bergamot,. Saturday, 29 Octobe...
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MObugs: November 2013
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Monday, November 25, 2013. When is a spider not a spider? When it is a Harvestman (a.k.a Daddy Longlegs). These spider-like arthropods are in the order Opiliones. These arachnids are common to abundant in North America as well as worldwide with over 6500 species identified. Most of us grew up playing with daddy longlegs, after all they were everywhere and easily captured and never tried to bite. Their long legs would tickle your bare skin as they climbed up your arm or leg which. Other myths associated w...
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MObugs: December 2013
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Thursday, December 26, 2013. The Elderberry Borer or Cloaked Knotty-Horned Beetle as it is sometimes referred to ( Desmocerus palliatus). Was the word of the day. It was all too easy to accidentally cut a larvae or pupae in half. This was enough to bring you to tears, to have worked so hard to find one, only to realize you destroyed it before you could get it out of its pupal chamber. Often we would work for as much as an hour before finding a single specimen. Tuesday, December 3, 2013. Time is of the es...
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