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Pompano
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Periodic trimming is vital to healthy trees and shrubs.
It's a yearly chore, but pays off with great bonfires.
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I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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Barry A.
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Pomp-------do you just trim off the bottoms of your Mesquite, or generally prune all over? (Beautiful tree, by the way)
Barry
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Pompano
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Barry..we trim all thru the tree...lots of dead branches are in hard to reach areas. It all promotes good tree health.
We also trim the open range mangales in front to promote upward growth. They have the potential to become great shade trees. These are fairly recent
arrivals.
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Barry A.
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WOW, what a beautiful place----- -----thanks Pomp for the good info.
Barry
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Skipjack Joe
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Crappie
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Originally posted by PompanoFor those who are wondering.. 'crappies' is pronounce 'croppies'...just in case you were grossed out. 
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One of the most beautiful north american freshwater fish.
Dumber than mierda. But very good eating.
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Pompano
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Igor....
Golly!...I always thought these were the smartest of fish..and it took a master angler to catch them!
Kind of like Pintos!?
Just kidding,Igor. You are right. These guys are dumber than a box of rocks and easier to catch than a winter cold. But deeelicious in the pan!
A balloon is the ticket...
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Skipjack Joe
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Right about now, Roger.
Right about now they start to gather in these huge schools in our ponds in central valley, california. They get active here before the bass and
bluegills. Hiking down a trail with newly arrived grass and wildflowers to a pond for crappies had become a spring ritual for some of us.
But I digress, - bajatalk.
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BajaNuts
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Container gardening is a great option. Forget about the 50'x50' garden, build some raised bed if you like a lot of produce or go for pot gardens if
you like a few select plants. They also use less water than large ground plots.
There are some pot gardens that should not be left out in the open. Use discretion when choosing locations for your pot gardens.
Unglazed clay pots evaporate moisture much faster than glazed clay pots. If you want the unglazed clay look on the outside, look for a pot that's
been glazed on the inside. When you see the right pot, you will get a glazed look in your eyes.........and all will be well with the
world..............
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dianaji
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaNuts
Container gardening is a great option. Forget about the 50'x50' garden, build some raised bed if you like a lot of produce or go for pot gardens if
you like a few select plants. They also use less water than large ground plots.
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Agreed. i could never raise strawberries until i planted them in a raised garden...no more bugs eating them, easier to control. i am now raising
onions, swiss chard, sorrel, kale, fennel, peppers, lettuce. No more digging!!! It's so great to just go and pick my own salad.
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Bob H
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When I was a kid, growing up in Miami in the 50's and 60's, my Dad used to take all the leftovers of the fish we cleaned and dig them down all around
our trees and shrubs, guts, bones, everything leftover. We always had beautiful trees and shrubs.
My next door neighbor would throw out her coffee grounds out her kitchen window, onto the grass in the back hard - hurling it all over the place.
They had the thickest, greenest, back yard on the block! Must be good stuff.
For house plants - a friend of mine saves the juice from canned tuna and mixes it 50/50 with water and waters his house plants with it. They are just
beautiful!
That's my 2-cents worth.
Bob H
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Pompano
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Evolution of a garden
A few years ago...well okay, 25-plus years ago...I grew lots of luscious tomatoes, etc in that little white cage. Using a bubbler system with good
fresh water and natural fertilizer. (a little added goat manure is great) Had to enclose the container shelter within mesh to protect it from the
birds, rabbits, donkeys, and cattle that were looking for a meal.
(I guess I was 'organic' long before the term came into use. That term 'organic' still gets a chuckle from some older north country ranchers.
Dashing out to the 'organic shed' on a cold winter's day..scattering our free-range chickens, ducks, and turkeys, dodging the compost
piles....brrr...Hey, who's taken the Sears & Roebuck catalog!)
The Hydorponic Garden.
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There was a brief 3 day period when my cage was 'borrowed' for a community project. We took all the veggie buckets out with the plumbing. And used
it for...catching 'Lucky the Coyote.' Now THAT was an event. It's a whole different story, but I wrote about it on nomads and in my journal.
"The Coyote Capture Cage"
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Now back in use as a garden, but then as truly great veggies became more available from home delivery pickups from Mulege..and the 'Rolling Green
Store' driven by Pancho Anaya..I made that veggie cage into..a Bird Cage. I'd entice wild birds into the feeders when the door was open.. and then
pull the door closed with a long rope. Well, you know what happened then. I couldn't stand to see all those cardinals, orioles, vermillion
flycatchers, woodpeckers, doves, and quail ..TRAPPED. I took the door off then and just used the whole thing as a wild bird feeder. Put up perching
branches and all. Got tons of birds in there and cost me a mint in bird scratch at Manuel's tienda in Mulege.
The Bird Cage.
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Getting older and needing more sleep now. Damn birds chirping, peeping, clucking, and flapping thier stupid wings in the morning..who needs that?
What to do with the mesh cage..? Hmm...hey, I love HASSENPHEFFER!
Viola!
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The Rabbit Cage
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[Edited on 3-7-2009 by Pompano]
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dianaji
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pompano...that's so great!
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Barry A.
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Fabulous story------------many thanks for sharing, both your great writing, and your great photos. I am still laughing, and looking in total wonder
at your "place in the sun"-------
------a dream place, for sure. 
Barry
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Bob H
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Great story Pompano! Now, what I'd like to know ... what do you do with the rabbits? Do they end up on the BBQ? Or, are they just pets?
Bob H
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Pompano
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Rabbits and Radishes
The rabbits have disappeared. The door was found open...and the longears were gone from thier hutch. I suspect operator error is responsible after
a certain feeding session. There is a nitwit living here.
At this point I would say that the rabbits were more for pets then the main ingredients for some mouth-watering Hassenpfeffer. Yeah..those were
pets...just pets.
All is not lost though, I am thinking of some chicken buddies next.
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Here's a garden idea and how to use that old tin boat you dragged 3000 miles to the border and then over the potholed Baja road, punching in a few
holes enroute...damn &%#$ topes!
1. Dig a hole the size of your hull..not too deep, maybe a foot or so.
2. Drop the holed boat into it, fill it with good black dirt.
3. You will not find good black dirt here, so use the brown or tan stuff.
4. Feed a goat a bushel of dates and invite him to stand in the boat for several hours. Instant fine fertilizer!
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You might also improve those garden goodies by a liberal dose of this fine up-east product. Squanto's Secret.
An Old Indian trick.
This actually goes back to the old wives tale that Native Americans where the first people to use week-old ripe fish to fertilize crops. Not
so..don't believe that tommyrot. Swedes were actually centuries ahead in this practice. Unfortunately for the Swedes, when neighboring Norwegians
heard of it, they sneaked across the open border and dug up the fish...which was rotted, but being used to lutefisk, they reveled in their booty.
That is gospel.
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I once tried Squanto's Secret on some radishes.
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dianaji
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that's some fish...err rabbit tale!!!
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dianaji
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oops...meant radish tale.
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dianaji
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here's a great idea to grow tomatoes and other plants. i'd like to make one...
http://earthtainer.tomatofest.com/
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oladulce
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How do all of you composters and fish-in-your-plant holers keep the ants under control???
Composting would be a great solution to reduce trips to the dump as well as amending our crappy soil but I spend so much energy trying to keep the
ants at bay, I have no desire to attract them by saving food scraps. Even if your compost container or pile is away from your house, how do you keep
the ants out?
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dianaji
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| Quote: | Originally posted by oladulce
How do all of you composters and fish-in-your-plant holers keep the ants under control???
Composting would be a great solution to reduce trips to the dump as well as amending our crappy soil but I spend so much energy trying to keep the
ants at bay, I have no desire to attract them by saving food scraps. Even if your compost container or pile is away from your house, how do you keep
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diatomaceus earth... they may have it at home depot. or a garden store if u have them where u live. it is non poisonous and u can put it around for
many other insects, spiders, etc.
diana
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