05/08/2024 12:50:31 PM PDT
· 55 of 67 Don W
to Red Badger
We kept growing them for 4 plant generations and they kept breeding true, then suddenly they were drastically altered into a mealy grape-style, from a super sweet, juicy, yellowish pear-cherry blend about the size of a ping-pong ball, but shaped like a butternut squash.
We even kept a separate area as far from all other tomatoes as we could for these particular plants, as we knew there was something special about them.
05/08/2024 8:48:07 AM PDT
· 38 of 67 Don W
to Red Badger; Diana in Wisconsin
Could this be an attempt at contaminating the heirloom tomatoes by introducing a limiting gene in the pollen? It’s quite difficult to keep outdoor (home) gardens isolated from whatever other tomato strains are out there.
My brother accidentally developed a cherry-pear tomato cross that was magnificent, but we were unable to keep the seed line clean, and lost them. After over a dozen attempts at recovery, he has since died and I am at my wit’s end.
05/03/2024 9:17:44 AM PDT
· 22 of 62 Don W
to rdcbn1
A dog that is aggressive toward family members and has gone on a chicken-killing rampage after showing itself untrainable is NOT a re-homing candidate. A billy goat that attacks is also a dangerous animal.
When you have a proven dangerous animal, you deal with it humanely and quickly.
05/02/2024 11:06:18 PM PDT
· 8 of 34 Don W
to Tai_Chung
Neither. An election occurs every 4 years after the previous UNLESS there is a non-confidence vote, which causes an election within a couple of months.
04/20/2024 10:45:49 PM PDT
· 40 of 64 Don W
to Vermont Lt
SRSLY? What does age have to do with the subject? Yes, High School vs adults, but really what was the point of this apparent “tradition” that I never heard of until 18 years ago?
04/20/2024 6:54:04 PM PDT
· 11 of 64 Don W
to ChicagoConservative27
I have never understood the reasoning behind “Ditch Day”.
How does this improve or enhance the learning experience?
What productive purpose does it serve?
How does it help the students, the community, the parents, or the teachers?
Perhaps, a LONG time ago it may have been a fun little lark, but like many vestiges of times gone bye it serves NO purpose and has become yet another drain on those it once benefitted.
That’s exactly what the water board in the city I used to live in did: encouraged major reductions in water use then complained about lack of sales and raised the rates to make up the shortfall.
Conserve water from a recently enlarged reservoir system having nearly quadruple the standard per capita storage, in the Pacific Northwest rainforest.
The rates went from reasonable (for water that literally falls from the sky) to higher than what Israelis pay for water they have to manufacture and protect from terrorists.