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We laid some serious pipe this weekend 💪🏼😜💧 It may not look like much, but repairing and extending this broken irrigation pipeline this was the first time we really "broke ground" here at the new homestead (besides planting a couple trees in the established orchard area) and is going to allow us to start landscaping and planting in this barren portion of the property right away... what I've been itching to do most! 🙌🏼 We repaired leaks, added about 40 feet of new pipe + a tee to 2 new hose bibs, and plan to add a drip irrigation system this week. I'll document the drip portion for a blog article (next week?) and our main line repair from this weekend is documented in a saved story highlight called "PVC Repair".
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🌿 Yesterday we picked up bay laurel, pineapple guava (feijoa), a pomegranate tree, have 2 lemon guava + more bay and feijoa on order, and will likely plant our dwarf mulberry tree along the fenceline also - to create a wonderful living fence of edible shrubs. This is the southwest corner of our property so we chose trees and plants that either stay fairly short naturally, or those we can maintain shorter with pruning, since we won't want to block precious sunlight as it dips low on thay horizon on the winter months. 🌞
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Hope you had a good weekend too! ✌🏼
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💡 Tips on saving annual flower seeds 🌻🌸🌼 As summer winds down, I'm guessing many of your flowers are too. As they do, keep an eye our for any especially keen specimen - so you can save their seeds and good genetics! Annual flowers are really easy to save seed from. You know, calendula, marigold, cosmos, bachelors buttons, sunflowers, poppies, zinnia, and so on. And who doesn't love free seeds?!
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The most important aspect is to let the bloom completely fade away and dry out while it's still attached the plant. As flowers shrivel and brown on the outside, the plant is re-directing its energy to the seeds inside - which are becoming increasingly large and viable. That means harvesting the flower too early could result in underdeveloped seeds. Then, depending on the type of flower, all you do is gently pluck, pull apart, or shake the dry flower head to remove the seeds. One neat trick I learned was to put them in an old coffee can and shake the heck out of it. This works especially well for stubborn and pokey echinacea heads. 😹
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I provide more flower-specific tips in an article on the blog. Just Google "Homestead and Chill save flower seeds" and it'll pop right up! 👌🏼 Happy seed-saving!

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