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When Tobacco Mosaic Virus infects a tobacco plant, the virus enters mechanically (For example through a ruptured plant cell wall) and replicates. After its multiplication, it enters the neighboring cells through plasmodesmata. For its smooth entry, Tobacco Mosaic Virus produces a 30,000 dalton prote |
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Plant Description:
• The Orchid is bilaterally symmetric (zygomorphic).
• Many resupinate.
• One petal (labellum) is always highly modified.
• Stamens and carpels are fused.
• Seeds are extremely small.
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Alternaria solani is a fungal pathogen, producing a disease in tomato and potato plants called early blight.
It produces small, darkened lesions on the plants, that spread into growing black spots of dead tissue, often killing most of the plant in the long run. Seeds infected with the diseas |
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Some plants needs an extra support to grow tall. Peas and Beans are an example of these kind of plants. Trellis structures can be as simple as a wooden stakes or as intricate as interwoven lattice. Plants are trained on a trellis to conserve space, increase light penetration into the plant, display |
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Red and White Tree Lichen Spots |
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Powdery mildew is a fungal disease that affects a wide range of plants. Powdery mildew diseases are caused by many different species of fungi in the order Erysiphales. It is one of the easier diseases to spot, as its symptoms are quite distinctive. Infected plants display white powder-like spots on |
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If your putting new grass sods yourself you might want to plan ahead and consider following some steps:
1. Kill all existing lawn/weed using Roundup to neutralize the soil
2. Use yard roller to smooth-out the soil
3. Use rotor tiller and till the ground
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Maybe Plum leaf blister (Polystigma rubrum) - Red leaf spots |
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The members of Triatominae , a subfamily of Reduviidae, are also known as conenose bugs, kissing bugs, assassin bugs or triatomines. Most of the 130 or more species of this subfamily are haematophagous, i.e. feed on vertebrate blood; a very few species feed on other invertebrates. They are mainly fo |
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There are many plants that we've grown accustomed to pulling out of our gardens because they are too strong and take out too many nutrients. Many of these plants are actually edible and highly nutritious. You probably have many of these growing in your yard.
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Cedar Apple Rust - Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae |
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Males almost never bite humans.
Males that escape being consumed by the females can go on to fertilize other females. It is a widely held misconception that females eat males after every mating.
The markings of Black Widows change constantly and dramatically before they develop into |
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Hydrangea macrophylla Plant infected with Cercospora Leaf Spot.
Cercospora Leaf Spot is a common disease in landscaping planting of Hydrangea. It is usually seen in low-maintenance landscaping.
It will unlikely kill the plant but will show many spots and leafs will shed prematu |
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Beans & legumes have nodules on their rootlets that will pump nitrogen from the environment into your soil -- making a more nitrogen-rich soil.
Would be great to plant these either near heavy nitrogen feeders like: tomatos, corn & cruciferous vegetables. Or to rotate your crops and pl |
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The disease is caused by the fungus Exobasidium camelliae.
The severity of the disease varies according to the weather conditions when leaf expansion begins in the spring. Cool, moist weather favors disease development. Frequently overhead sprinkler irrigation provides the moisture necessary |
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Honey fungus or Armillaria is a genus of parasitic fungi that live on trees and woody shrubs. It includes about 10 species formerly lumped together as A. mellea.
Armillaria is long lived and form some of the largest living organisms in the world. The largest single organism (of the species A |
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Looks like Sand lily, Star lily, Mountain lily (Leucocrinum montanum), but those have no green stripes on the leaves.
Also Known As: Sleepydick, Star-of-Bethlehem, Grass Lily, Nap-at-Noon, Eleven-o'clock Lady, Summer Snowflake, Starflower, and the Pyrenees Star of Bethlehem.
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Strange, Tiny, Bowl-Like Fungus Pores.
Often found in sawdust, woodchips, manure, or well enriched soil. Cup is striated. They are saprophytes (decomposers of organic material).
The seeds are small capsules known as peridioles which contain the spores.
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Fireblight is a destructive, highly infectious and widespread disease caused by the bacterium Erwinia amylovora.The disease affects plants in the Rosaceae family: Malus (apple and crabapple), Cotoneaster (cotoneaster), Prunus (flowering almond, plum and cherry), Chaenomeles (flowering quince), Crata |
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A atemoia é uma fruta híbrida que é obtida através do cruzamento da cherimoia (Annona cherimola, Mill) com a fruta-pinha (Annona squamosa, L.), pertencentes à família das anonáceas (a mesma da graviola).
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The Goathead is an Flowering Annual.
Many pinnately compound leaflets per leaf.
Small yellow flowers with five petals.
The seeds are very trecherous, and cause the barefoot gardener a great deal of agony. The shoed gardener can't escape the tribulation either, |
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As I learn about Beekeeping, I'll post it here.
Link to a page on harvesting honey:
[[]]http://healthyhomegardening.com/Blog.php?pid=67[[]] |
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Datura plant is also known as "Datura Stramonium" which is its scientific name. The other names are Jimson weed, Stinkweed, Mad Apple, Apple Thorn, Stramonium and Dhatura Tatula. The parts, which are used, are the seeds, leaves and flowers. It is mainly found in the foothills of Himalayan |
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Height: Up to 4 ft.
Foliage: Alternate, simple, lanceolate, sessile, serrate
Flowers: Yellow ray and disk flowers in a terminal broadly pyramid-like panicle with conspicuous recurved branches
Bloom time: July to October
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Unknown Fungus, Unknown Plant |
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beans,cucumbers,squash and to such flowers as lilac,zinnia,rose and phlox.
patches of white which encompass the entire surface of leaves,shoots,flowers and fruit. |
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Plant disease of warm humid areas, caused by a fungus (usually Colletotrichum or Gloeosporium). It infects various plants, from trees to grasses. Symptoms include sunken spots of various colours in leaves, stems, fruits, or flowers, often leading to wilting and dying of tissues. Dogwood anthracnose, |
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This catepillar hangs from little silk lines. |
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A Thrips is a very small bug that can just barely be seen by the naked eye. Some may have wings and some may not. Thrips reproduce rapidly. They thrive in small, tight places.
The thrips uses it's adapted mandible to pierce the cell walls of the plant and consume the chlorophyll inside. |
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Closely related to Hylocereus setaceus but otherwice quite isolated within Hylocereus. Is intermediate between Selenicereus and Hylocereus. Recent research suggest that this species originated as a hybrid between species of Hylocereus and Selenicereus (see references). The two species possibly invol |
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Amanita muscaria, commonly known as the fly agaric or fly Amanita, is a poisonous and psychoactive basidiomycete fungus, one of many in the genus Amanita. Native throughout the temperate and boreal regions of the Northern Hemisphere, Amanita muscaria has been unintentionally introduced to many count |
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Latrodectus Hesperus, the Western black widow spider or Western widow, is a species of venomous spider found western regions of the United States of America. The female's body is 14–16 millimetres in length, the male is around half this size, and is black; often with an hourglass shaped red mark on |
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2 different types of mushrooms cluster together on a tree trunk
Dark red/yellow fungi + "shell" like fungi |
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Large, white, round, styrofoam like mushroom. When the mushroom begins to crack is when it is edible. Texture when fried is like a marshmallow. |
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The Red Spider Mite is barely visible with the naked eye, but it can be seen. You would need a magnefying glass to really see one and identify it.
Hot, dry conditions are often the cause of spider mite infestations.
The Spider Mite is like the Thr |
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My fiance and I "discovered" this mushroom in the Enchantment Lakes area of Leavenworth, Washington. This particular mushroom was not part of a cluster, but there were a few small clusters a few feet away. We loved the colors !!! |
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The florets within the sunflower's cluster are arranged in a spiral pattern.
Typically each floret is oriented toward the next by approximately the golden angle, 137.5°, producing a pattern of interconnecting spirals where the number of left spirals and the number of right spirals are su |
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The disease will cause pale green, pink white or brown fleshy galls, which are caused by the fungus Exobasidium vaccinii.
Exobasidium vaccinii also infects species of Vaccinium including cranberries where it produces bright red, swollen spots on the leaves and fruits. Infected stems become |
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AKA: Cranefly, Daddy-Long-Legs (UK), Mosquito Hawk, Mosquito Eater, Skeeter Eater, Gallinipper, Gollywhopper, and Jimmy Spinner.
The Skeeter Eater, doesn't actually eat Mosquitos.
Their larvae is known as Leatherjackets, Leatherbacks, Leatherback Bugs or Leatherjacket Slugs.
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Corn smut is a disease of maize caused by the pathogenic plant fungus Ustilago maydis.
In Mexico corn smut is called huitlacoche, sometimes spelled cuitlacoche), a Nahuatl word reportedly meaning raven's excrement. It is considered a delicacy, even being preserved and sold for a highe |
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Chaenomeles japonica
Flowering quince, Orange Flower Vine, Maule's Quince or Japanese Quince.
Chaenomeles is a genus of three species of deciduous spiny shrubs
These plants are related to the Quince (Cydonia oblonga) and the Chinese Quince (Pseudocy |
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Video of a venus fly trap sprouting out of the ground, and forming it's teeth. |
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Coneflowers may get Pseudomanas or Xanthomonas leaf spot. Powdery mildew will also occur under the right weather conditions. Botrytis may also occur. May get brown dead areas as well as distorted leaves. These plants now get aster yellows.
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Video: Making Bent Wood Trellis
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Whenever I'm designing elements for my garden, I always keep in mind, that the more natural they are the better they seem to fit in and that's exactly what I did when I created this rustic trellis. But others have taken thi |
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Wolf spiders range from about 1/2 inch to 2 inches in length, hairy, and are typically brown to gray in color with various markings or lines. Wolf spider mothers carry their large egg sacs around with them. When the young spiderlings hatch they climb onto their mother's back and ride around until pa |
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These flowers are usually some of the first to bloom in spring, and can even bloom all winter long out of the snow.
The Spring Snowflake is a white monocot flower with tinges of green near the tips of the petals. There are six petals. The stem of the flower slowly unzips releasing a new bud |
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Orange Chicken of the Woods Mushroom with white pigments
Laetiporus is a genus of edible mushrooms found throughout much of the world. Some species are commonly known as sulphur shelf, chicken of the woods, the chicken mushroom, or the chicken fungus because many think they taste like chicke |
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A Variety of White Fungi all over a tree trunk. |
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Rhizoctonia solani (teleomorph: Thanatephorus cucumeris) is a plant pathogenic fungus with a wide host range and worldwide distribution. It is one cause of the condition known as damping off, which is a cause of death of seedlings in agriculture. It is also responsible for wire stem, a disease |
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Lea's mycena, is a North American species of saprobic fungi in the genus Mycena, family Tricholomataceae. Characterized by their bright orange caps and stalks and reddish-orange gill edges, they usually grow in dense clusters on deciduous logs. The pigment responsible for the orange color in this sp |
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White Puffball Mushroom |
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It's HUGE! Any clue what this is? |
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Without water, plants wilt and die. But too much water can be as bad for plants as not enough. If land plants are submerged in water for too long, even if just their roots are submerged, they may rot or drown from lack of oxygen.
Balancing plants' water needs is like having a healthful die |
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Araneomorphae
Superfamily: Pholcoidea
Family: Pholcidae
Also known as: Daddy long-legs spider, Vibrating spider, and House spider. |
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Dogwood anthracnose is caused by the fungus Discula.
Brown, elliptical cankers may form at the base of dead branches. Drought, winter injury, and environmental stress predispose dogwood to anthracnose. Kousa dogwood (Cornus kousa) is resistant to this disease.
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In about 5 minutes we planted 4 bell pepper plants... It was my first time planting and I was amazed how easy it was...
Simply:
• Dig a small hole
• Grab the plant, still in its plastic tray and gently press the outside, so the plant comes out easily
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It is a lot easier than you think to prepare a ground for planting seeds and seedlings.
You will want to consider the quality of the soil before you begin a plot of land to prepare for seeds & seedlings.
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The orb-weaver spiders (family Araneidae) are the builders of spiral wheel-shaped webs often found in gardens, fields and forests. Their common name is taken from the round shape of this typical web. Orb-weavers have eight similar eyes, legs hairy or spiny and no stridulating organs. The family is c |
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It is HUGE and frilly and like a Rose. It has no gills and no stem. |
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Common names for Woodlouse include:
Armadillo bug, Cheeselog, Doodlebug, Pill bug, Roly-poly, Potato bug, Sow bug, Roll up bug, Chuggypig, Slater, and Gramersow.
The Potato bug or Woodlouse is a crustacean with a rigid, segmented, long exoskeleton and fourteen jointed limbs. The |
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Dacrymyces palmatus is a yellow-orange jelly fungus which closely mimics Tremella mesenterica, the common Witch's Butter. The two taxa are best told apart in the field by differences in habit and substrate. Tremella mesenterica is a parasite of Stereum species and typically fruits with its host on h |
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The larvae of the Western Tent Caterpillar Moth feeds on oak trees and shrubs. This caterpillar will strip the plant of it's leaves, sometimes killing it.
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Helix aspersa, the common western garden snail, is a close relative of the commercial French food snail, Helix pomatia.
The practice of rearing snails for food is known as heliciculture.
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To Eat the Garden Snail:
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Veronica Flower - Ivy Speedwell
There are many types of this Little Blue Flower. It has four petals, and two stamen. It's called Veronica after St. Veronica who wiped Christ's face with a napkin, and afterward the image of christ's face was left impressed into it. Like the napkin, the flowe |
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The disease is caused by the fungus Sclerotinia homoeocarpa. Susceptible turfgrass include: all species of warm- and cool-season turfgrass. Tall fescues, Bentgrass, Zoysiagrass and Bermuda hybrids are particularly susceptible.
Dollar spot is favored by temperatures between 60F to 85F and con |
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The Fly Agarics' are quite famous throughout history and are featured in many works of art and literary works. Most notably, the caterpillar that Alice talks to in "Through The Looking Glass" is seated on one. Noted by many for the toxic compounds which cause sweating, deep sleep, and diso |
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Muscari, Grape Hyacinth
Grape hyacinths are a group of plants in the genus Muscari of plants native to Eurasia that produce spikes of blue flowers resembling bunches of grapes. There are about forty species.
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Tetranychus urticae (an animal with over 60 common names, including red spider mite and two-spotted spider mite) is one of many species of plant-feeding mites found in dry environments, and generally considered a pest. It is the most widely known member of the family Tetranychidae or Spider mites. |
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Scattered throughout the forest floor, not grouped together. Beautiful hunter orange color. |
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Here is a great example of mixing vegatables, drought perennials. flower & shrubs. |
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In this video, you will see how to improve your digital images using a program like Photoshop. This video covers, levels, hue/saturation, cropping, sizing, layers, saveing a file, naming a file and more.
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Learn from Green Deane about Amaranth, a long-cultivated but also wild food, vegetable and grain.
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Vegetable Amaranth 1-2 feet high
Grain Amaranth - much taller
Leaves dark on top, silvery on bottom. Leaves alternate up the stem. Cou |
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This is the caterpillar or larva of the Banded Tussock Moth. I found this little guy on my screen door. I placed it on a leaf and watched it in action. It lifted it's head up for a quick shot or two.
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attacks tomato, pepper, potato, peas, melon, and dahlia.
fungi remain in the soil for several years and require the rotation of the plants. |
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O brinco-de-princesa é uma espécie híbrida obtida a partir de espécies sul americanas, principalmente Fuchsia corymbiflora Ruiz. & Pav., Fuchsia fulgens Moc. & Ses. e Fuchsia magellanica Lam.
Flor símbolo do Rio Grande do Sul, é uma planta qu |
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Snails are mature when a lip forms at the opening of their shell. Before they mature, their shells are more easily broken, making them undesirable. For H. aspersa, commercial weight is 8 grams or larger.
The nutrient composition of raw snails (per 100 grams of edible portion), according to i |
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Cedar-apple rust and quince rust affect two groups of vastly utilized landscape plants. The cedar-apple rust fungus overwinters in galls that may grow to several inches in diameter on eastern red cedar and several other junipers. In the spring, brightly-colored, gelatinous horns emerge from the gall |
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Yellow Mini-sunflower Wildflower Weed, Yellow-green corollas, with no real petals.
AKA: Disc Mayweed /Chamomilla suaveolens /Artemisia matricarioides
The flowers have a chamomile/pineapple smell when opened. They are edible and can be used in salads and tea.
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This was an interesting use of Allium (onion family) in residential landscaping design. If you notice from pic, this is a very natural, native landscape, with the allium plants amongs the native longer rye-type grass.
The use of the Allium plant in this yard is visually appealing, fits with n |
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The Taraxacum officinale or 'Dandelion' as it is commonly known, is considered a major pest or weed in North America. It is easily identified, and commonly known by most people. It is the little yellow powder-puff, that turns into the spherical white 'Make a Wish' Flower, where people continue the p |
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If you have seeds from past years and want to plant them it is totally fine, seeds should last for a long time. However there is still a risk of seeds not germinatings sometimes, due to the age of the seed. A good thing to do before planting old seeds is to test them first. You can do that by placin |
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Growing Stage
Wood Ear Mushrooms (Auricularia polytricha) don't have a lot of flavor but have a nice texture. Very popular in Chinese cuisine. |
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The Blue Garlic Snail is a member of the Glass Snail Family.
It is a small, blue-skinned snail. The Oxychilus alliarius is called the Garlic Snail because when disturbed, it emits a strong garlic scent.
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Common Weed
Tiny 4 petalled white flowers.
Heat-Shaped lobed seed packets called 'silicles' that resemble the purse sack that a Shepard may have once worn.
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