Category Archives: Gardening

On Garden Prep

The hands.  The hands were the first thing to let me know that my Winter-ridden body was doing something very different, almost wrong.  Given that I have two days off from work and absolutely fabulous weather in which to enjoy … Continue reading

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Bring on Spring

Veggie seeds have been ordered. Bring on Spring!

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Is it that time of the year already?

You’re damned right it is.   It’s bitterly cold outside.  Seed catalogs are showing up by the shovelful in the mail.   It’s time to start thinking about the vegetable garden this year.  As in the past couple of years I’ve got … Continue reading

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Iron Chef America – White House Garden edition

Food Network had a special Iron Chef America episode on tonight where all of the vegetables came from the White House vegetable garden set up by the Obamas when they first moved in to the White House.  Protein (meat, cheese, … Continue reading

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JasperReports underlining all text in HTML reports in Internet Explorer?

Last week I ran into an odd situation with our HTML output from JasperReports in Internet Explorer 7.  All text, link or otherwise,  was being underlined and I’m not really sure of the root cause other than it would appear … Continue reading

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Thanks for the Weblogic support Oracle!

I know that it’s a tough thing to move forum contents from one system to another and I know that Oracle and BEA, prior to their buyout by Oracle, had a different forum system than Oracle.   I also understand that … Continue reading

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Seed order for 2009 is done!

Whew. Big piece of work for the summer out of the way. Looking forward to starting some of this stuff in the basement soon. That is the next step, getting the basement set up for seed growing!

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Bring Spring on already

I’m getting pretty tired of frozen vegetables.  Sure they’re better than canned.   They’re definitely better than no vegetables.  But they sure as hell aren’t as good as fresh (duh)….and last year we had real fresh. So fresh in fact that … Continue reading

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Critters and corn

I’ve got something hacking on my corn. I suspect it’s the squirrels as they should be the only thing that can get over the fencing I have around the corn without bringing down the fence. I know its not some … Continue reading

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The second plot

I completely forgot to write about the second garden plot I put in. I planted three kinds of corn with seed from Vermont Bean Seed Company. My daughter and I planted: Silver King Hybrid white sweet corn Incredible Hybrid yellow … Continue reading

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