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    Surviving Minnesota!

    It will this year! It’s under grow lights in the basement!
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    Surviving Minnesota!

    Picture of white Maircell fig
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    Surviving Minnesota!

    Lots of snow!! More than four inches (6?) but again this year, the ground isn’t frozen!!! I’m northwest of Duluth, Southeast of Hibbing. last year the ground didn’t freeze and I was able to save the fig trees I forgot outside all winter!!!! They survived (and I brought them in this year) it was...
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    Surviving Minnesota!

    Happy Sunday!
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    Surviving Minnesota!

    Thank heavens he came down on his own! God bless you both!!
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    Surviving Minnesota!

    Thanks so much!!
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    Surviving Minnesota!

    Good Morning al! I was wondering if anyone has been to the winger livestock auction house? I’m looking at going on the 5th for their anniversary sale, but don’t know anything about it. Is it nice? Do they process a large volume of critters? I need a ram, peahen, bull, and more alpaca (always)...
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    Surviving Minnesota!

    We just put electric up last month. I’ve had the set up stuff for years, but never put it up. The DH took up the challenge himself, and I found out I have such strong childhood memories, I get a cold sweat just standing next to it! Lol, I know I’m a weird one ! Who’s afraid of a fence 😂
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    Surviving Minnesota!

    we have a lovely collection of chicken eaters on camera, and even more “camera shy” horrors.......
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    Surviving Minnesota!

    I’m so sorry, it’s a terrible thing to discover.
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    Surviving Minnesota!

    lol, I understand and about the kids helping, my oldest is 13 and asking them to snap beans is like giving them a “life sentence” I had to learn about penning the chickens the hard way, when they ate every last hot pepper, plant and all, when I first started gardening 🤨 I loose a few here and...
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    Surviving Minnesota!

    Wow, that was like reading my week!! Lol, twins! Only I have something feasting on my ripe tomatoes..... only the 100 percent ripe, the 99% ripe are left intact, so those are the ones I’m bringing in!
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    Surviving Minnesota!

    Holm25, those are gorgeous pictures!!! What wonderful cattle, and the other critters are adorable 😍. Super good looking garden too!
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    Surviving Minnesota!

    Also I’ve heard that northern MN has more in common with Michigan’s UP than “The cities“, or southern Michigan and there was once (many years ago) talk of making a new state from the two northern areas 😋
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    Surviving Minnesota!

    [ so about those onions, yes to loose soil and good fertility, choosing a variety that grows large, like Vidalia, or Alisa Craig, Or Walla Walla. Watering has to be CONSISTENT! An inch of water a week or so, the amount is less important than the consistency. The biggest consideration is to not...
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    Surviving Minnesota!

    Just a thought, isn’t the only place your brain is exposed to air, the back of your sinuses, through the ol’factory receptors??? Makes me wonder what that Covid test, is REALLY testing......... but that is a theory for another conspiracy, lol 🤪😝😂
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    Surviving Minnesota!

    Please post if you try it!!!
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    Surviving Minnesota!

    Same here!! We now have plenty of rain
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    Surviving Minnesota!

    Wow, it’s coming down buckets! Hope this one doesn’t stay all night and heads south fast 😉
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    Surviving Minnesota!

    Puddles everywhere! And the sky is darkening again. DuluthRalphie, I’m so sorry, it seems Your rain stopped here 🤣. I have chickens hiding in the cattle lean to, instead of the coop! And pictures from a couple days ago, before the flood!
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