Category: Random
Me talkin to myself
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It’s almost prehistoric. And by that I mean big. It loves sopping wet soil. We have some of that in our back yard. Beside the gunnera is Craig, who is 6 feet tall. The gunnera could have him for lunch, if it were a carnivore. Fortunately it’s not. We don’t do anything, just make sure…
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As a boomer who grew up on the edge of a treed ravine that went down to the Humber River in Toronto, I was absolutely a free-range kid. In the summer, we wandered freely in the woods. The only absolute rule was to stay away from and out of the river. My mom sent me…
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Six years ago Craig built a couple of 4×8 raised beds for a tidy vegetable garden where we could grow tomatoes, tomatillos, squash, raspberries and, sometimes, garlic. He chose 1×6 redwood planks because they outlast by several years most other woods available in our Pacific Northwest region. But for the upright posts on either end…
