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Splatoid said:
I used to repair the cooking equipment in these food trucks when I worked for Hobart! I can respect anyone that can work in these. Tight and very hot quarters but most of them they make good food. You know what was real fun? Repairing stuff in Prison's. They make you do a background check and I was sweating it. I just hoped it was long enough ago when I was kinds or shifty.
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Funny , I just helped a Brother who does all the commercial kitchen stuff for stony brook univ.
We were at a HS working on a convection oven .
The school would get hobart in and it cost a lot of $ and were slow.
 
Back when I had a flock, I never had them mess with established plants. The *******s would walk down a freshly planted row and scratch/dig up every damned seed I'd planted, but if I could keep 'em out of the garden 'til the plants were a few inches tall, they'd leave 'em alone. The woodchucks liked 'em when they were short.
 
joeb631a said:
Funny , I just helped a Brother who does all the commercial kitchen stuff for stony brook univ.
We were at a HS working on a convection oven .
The school would get hobart in and it cost a lot of $ and were slow.I hated working for them.
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I hated working for them. They had some some of the most lazy a holes working for them. And they would dump all the hard jobs on me. But I did learn a lot fast. And Hobart were rip off's. They would make it two trips always. I had to travel about 100 miles for a slicer in a Arby's and it had a bad knob. I asked them why don't I bring some knobs from the parts room just to see If I had the right one. And they told me no just go look at it and order the part. I always felt bad when I would have to do this kind of thing. I quit them after only one year.
 
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Hippie420 said:
Back when I had a flock, I never had them mess with established plants. The *******s would walk down a freshly planted row and scratch/dig up every damned seed I'd planted, but if I could keep 'em out of the garden 'til the plants were a few inches tall, they'd leave 'em alone. The woodchucks liked 'em when they were short.
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I had to replant all my stuff this last year because of critters and slugs and what every else you can think of. Rough year.
 
Splatoid said:
I hated working for them. They had some some of the most lazy a holes working for them. And they would dump all the hard jobs on me. But I did learn a lot fast. And Hobart were rip off's. They would make it two trips always. I had to travel about 100 miles for a slicer in a Arby's and it had a bad knob. I asked them why don't I bring some knobs from the parts room just to see If I had the right one. And they told me no just go look at it and order the part. I always felt bad when I would have to do this kind of thing. I quit them after only one year.
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What would happen with a lot of schools they want a big company.
As you said many were a holes and charged the crap out of them .
Thats why my Brother has been doing the university with their 20 kitchens and schools for over 30 years
And kitchen stuff changes with much added electronics,
 
bigsur51 said:
while the Pulsey grass looks pretty , it is a noxious weed…looks like bindweed , that stuff will bankrupt a farmer


WEED OF THE MONTH – FLORIDA PUSLEY​

Jun 17, 2019 | Print
Florida pusley (Richardia scabra) can be a troublesome turfgrass weed.
Florida pusley (Richardia scabra) can be a troublesome turfgrass weed.
Jackie Jordan ©2015, Clemson Extension


Florida pusley is a low-branching, annual summer weed. Its pretty, white, star-shaped flowers produce an abundance of seeds, and a single plant can quickly turn into an infestation.

This weed is extremely drought tolerant and can easily out compete lawns that are not irrigated during extended dry weather conditions.

Florida pusley is often found in open thin areas of turf.

A lawn dominated by Florida pusley could be suffering from a nematode infestation.

Nematodes are microscopic worms that attack the root system of the grass. They are very prolific in the Sandhill and Coastal Plain regions of South Carolina. Nematodes cause yellowing and thinning of turf. For more information on nematodes, check out HGIC 2154, Nematode Problems in Home Lawns.
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Oh it is most ricky-tick nematode infested. When my house was being built, I had 100 truckloads of dirt delivered and spread (WOW). Soon as we moved in I decided to have a garden just like I'd had in Virginia: Pole beans, summer squash, carrots, unyums.

Got out my rototiller and went to work. Five months later, it was plain Something Was Wrong. Nothing grew unless it was wrinkly and stunted. I took some samples my garden and original ground, and paid $25 to the local Univ to have the soil tested.

It was just about composed of nematodes. I gave my rototiller to my best bud in Georgia.

BTW: I din' quit as easy as that. Just because the whole area (wooded) around me was Nematode City, I built a raised micro-farm, filled it with potting soil and planted my unyums and summer squash.

Every sprout -- and root -- was eaten by the wildies. When I started to electrify my prison garden, Herself stepped in and suggested I plant a mango tree. Mango trees eat nematodes.

Then, I noticed that my lawn was being replaced by a low-lying sorta mat of purty green leaves, soft to walk on. Unlike the "specimen" photos above, when just periodically mowed, there is no bare ground anywhere. And then it blooms. While still totally replacing grass.
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All is living green. And note the size of the leaves. Not like the "specimen" photo at all. Very small leaves, as you can see in the picture of my yard. Better than grass any day.

But, of course... *IF* you are a swanky-rich golfer, where nothing but the finest-bladed grass must grow over ten thousand acres without a flower anywhere, ever... then you get this lovely plant branded with the dreaded ultimate: "WEED!"

However, the appelation isn't necessarily pejorative. viz:

39 Common Edible and Medicinal Weeds​


  1. Bitter Cress
  2. Borage
  3. Brambles
  4. Burdock
  5. Chickweed
  6. Chicory
  7. Claytonia
  8. Cleavers
  9. Clover
  10. Creeping Charlie
  11. Dandelion
  12. Dead Nettle
  13. Dock
  14. Ferns
  15. Fireweed
  16. Garlic Mustard
  17. Goosefoot
  18. Gorse
  19. Horsetail
  20. Knotweed
  21. Kudzu
  22. Lady’s Thumb
  23. Lamb’s-Quarter
  24. Mallow
  25. Mullein
  26. Nightshade
  27. Pigweed
  28. Pineapple Weed
  29. Plantain
  30. Purslane
  31. Self-Heal
  32. Shepherd’s Purse
  33. Sorrel
  34. Sumac
  35. Stinging Nettle
  36. Thistle
  37. Valerian
  38. Violets
  39. Yarro
Getting old can be fun. You suddenly remember **** from the Olden Days (we DID have oil lamps at the farm for light at night). I just thought of a noxious weed y'all prolly know: Sumac #34
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What is neat about this is if you take that big bloom and either plunk it whole or bust it up into a big jar full of water and let it sit for 24 hours, you can pour the now-colored water out through a cloth. Add some sugar, and you have really tangy, zesty drink! I lived on sumac soda.
 
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Here I sit, saturated with @boo 's Finest, and thought of another plant we ate at the farm whenever we found it. Nightshade. <-- City folks instantly think "Deadly Nightshade". Nope. That is found mostly in Europe, called Belladonna. Doesn't look at all like our nightshade.

If you grow peppers or tomatoes, you are growing Nightshade. And black nightshade berries taste like cross between an tomato and a blueberry. So you can see how us kids would gobble them while wandering around.

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Oh, and eggplants: nightshade.
 
The only deciduous tree that we have left is the Maple that the city planted in our parking strip and the young Dogwood that I replaced the ancient dying Birch with, but we have to not only deal with our own leaves, but the hoards that blow over from the park.

If we rake them into piles in the street at the curb, the city will pick them up twice during the season and turn them into compost, which they provide to homeowners for free as is where is.
 
Unca Walt said:
Oh it is most ricky-tick nematode infested. When my house was being built, I had 100 truckloads of dirt delivered and spread (WOW). Soon as we moved in I decided to have a garden just like I'd had in Virginia: Pole beans, summer squash, carrots, unyums.

Got out my rototiller and went to work. Five months later, it was plain Something Was Wrong. Nothing grew unless it was wrinkly and stunted. I took some samples my garden and original ground, and paid $25 to the local Univ to have the soil tested.

It was just about composed of nematodes. I gave my rototiller to my best bud in Georgia.

BTW: I din' quit as easy as that. Just because the whole area (wooded) around me was Nematode City, I built a raised micro-farm, filled it with potting soil and planted my unyums and summer squash.

Every sprout -- and root -- was eaten by the wildies. When I started to electrify my prison garden, Herself stepped in and suggested I plant a mango tree. Mango trees eat nematodes.

Then, I noticed that my lawn was being replaced by a low-lying sorta mat of purty green leaves, soft to walk on. Unlike the "specimen" photos above, when just periodically mowed, there is no bare ground anywhere. And then it blooms. While still totally replacing grass.
View attachment 345007

All is living green. And note the size of the leaves. Not like the "specimen" photo at all. Very small leaves, as you can see in the picture of my yard. Better than grass any day.

But, of course... *IF* you are a swanky-rich golfer, where nothing but the finest-bladed grass must grow over ten thousand acres without a flower anywhere, ever... then you get this lovely plant branded with the dreaded ultimate: "WEED!"

However, the appelation isn't necessarily pejorative. viz:

39 Common Edible and Medicinal Weeds​


  1. Bitter Cress
  2. Borage
  3. Brambles
  4. Burdock
  5. Chickweed
  6. Chicory
  7. Claytonia
  8. Cleavers
  9. Clover
  10. Creeping Charlie
  11. Dandelion
  12. Dead Nettle
  13. Dock
  14. Ferns
  15. Fireweed
  16. Garlic Mustard
  17. Goosefoot
  18. Gorse
  19. Horsetail
  20. Knotweed
  21. Kudzu
  22. Lady’s Thumb
  23. Lamb’s-Quarter
  24. Mallow
  25. Mullein
  26. Nightshade
  27. Pigweed
  28. Pineapple Weed
  29. Plantain
  30. Purslane
  31. Self-Heal
  32. Shepherd’s Purse
  33. Sorrel
  34. Sumac
  35. Stinging Nettle
  36. Thistle
  37. Valerian
  38. Violets
  39. Yarro
Getting old can be fun. You suddenly remember **** from the Olden Days (we DID have oil lamps at the farm for light at night). I just thought of a noxious weed y'all prolly know: Sumac #34
View attachment 345008 What is neat about this is if you take that big bloom and either plunk it whole or bust it up into a big jar full of water and let it sit for 24 hours, you can pour the now-colored water out through a cloth. Add some sugar, and you have really tangy, zesty drink! I lived on sumac soda.
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plains Indians like the Lakota used sumac to make their pipe stems for their sacred pipes

bowls are made of catlinite quarried at Pipestone Minnesota

I ordered some catlinite several years ago and work on making plains pipes every now and then

Pipestone Plains Style Pipe w/ Sumac Stem 19″​




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Unca Walt said:
Oh it is most ricky-tick nematode infested. When my house was being built, I had 100 truckloads of dirt delivered and spread (WOW). Soon as we moved in I decided to have a garden just like I'd had in Virginia: Pole beans, summer squash, carrots, unyums.

Got out my rototiller and went to work. Five months later, it was plain Something Was Wrong. Nothing grew unless it was wrinkly and stunted. I took some samples my garden and original ground, and paid $25 to the local Univ to have the soil tested.

It was just about composed of nematodes. I gave my rototiller to my best bud in Georgia.

BTW: I din' quit as easy as that. Just because the whole area (wooded) around me was Nematode City, I built a raised micro-farm, filled it with potting soil and planted my unyums and summer squash.

Every sprout -- and root -- was eaten by the wildies. When I started to electrify my prison garden, Herself stepped in and suggested I plant a mango tree. Mango trees eat nematodes.

Then, I noticed that my lawn was being replaced by a low-lying sorta mat of purty green leaves, soft to walk on. Unlike the "specimen" photos above, when just periodically mowed, there is no bare ground anywhere. And then it blooms. While still totally replacing grass.
View attachment 345007

All is living green. And note the size of the leaves. Not like the "specimen" photo at all. Very small leaves, as you can see in the picture of my yard. Better than grass any day.

But, of course... *IF* you are a swanky-rich golfer, where nothing but the finest-bladed grass must grow over ten thousand acres without a flower anywhere, ever... then you get this lovely plant branded with the dreaded ultimate: "WEED!"

However, the appelation isn't necessarily pejorative. viz:

39 Common Edible and Medicinal Weeds​


  1. Bitter Cress
  2. Borage
  3. Brambles
  4. Burdock
  5. Chickweed
  6. Chicory
  7. Claytonia
  8. Cleavers
  9. Clover
  10. Creeping Charlie
  11. Dandelion
  12. Dead Nettle
  13. Dock
  14. Ferns
  15. Fireweed
  16. Garlic Mustard
  17. Goosefoot
  18. Gorse
  19. Horsetail
  20. Knotweed
  21. Kudzu
  22. Lady’s Thumb
  23. Lamb’s-Quarter
  24. Mallow
  25. Mullein
  26. Nightshade
  27. Pigweed
  28. Pineapple Weed
  29. Plantain
  30. Purslane
  31. Self-Heal
  32. Shepherd’s Purse
  33. Sorrel
  34. Sumac
  35. Stinging Nettle
  36. Thistle
  37. Valerian
  38. Violets
  39. Yarro
Getting old can be fun. You suddenly remember **** from the Olden Days (we DID have oil lamps at the farm for light at night). I just thought of a noxious weed y'all prolly know: Sumac #34
View attachment 345008 What is neat about this is if you take that big bloom and either plunk it whole or bust it up into a big jar full of water and let it sit for 24 hours, you can pour the now-colored water out through a cloth. Add some sugar, and you have really tangy, zesty drink! I lived on sumac soda.
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But correct me if I am wrong, that particular sumac plant is not of the poisonous variety , correct? I have them where I am and I thought to myself.............Self what a lovely flower that would be in a vase. I had to research it of course.
 
Unca Walt said:
Oh it is most ricky-tick nematode infested. When my house was being built, I had 100 truckloads of dirt delivered and spread (WOW). Soon as we moved in I decided to have a garden just like I'd had in Virginia: Pole beans, summer squash, carrots, unyums.

Got out my rototiller and went to work. Five months later, it was plain Something Was Wrong. Nothing grew unless it was wrinkly and stunted. I took some samples my garden and original ground, and paid $25 to the local Univ to have the soil tested.

It was just about composed of nematodes. I gave my rototiller to my best bud in Georgia.

BTW: I din' quit as easy as that. Just because the whole area (wooded) around me was Nematode City, I built a raised micro-farm, filled it with potting soil and planted my unyums and summer squash.

Every sprout -- and root -- was eaten by the wildies. When I started to electrify my prison garden, Herself stepped in and suggested I plant a mango tree. Mango trees eat nematodes.

Then, I noticed that my lawn was being replaced by a low-lying sorta mat of purty green leaves, soft to walk on. Unlike the "specimen" photos above, when just periodically mowed, there is no bare ground anywhere. And then it blooms. While still totally replacing grass.
View attachment 345007

All is living green. And note the size of the leaves. Not like the "specimen" photo at all. Very small leaves, as you can see in the picture of my yard. Better than grass any day.

But, of course... *IF* you are a swanky-rich golfer, where nothing but the finest-bladed grass must grow over ten thousand acres without a flower anywhere, ever... then you get this lovely plant branded with the dreaded ultimate: "WEED!"

However, the appelation isn't necessarily pejorative. viz:

39 Common Edible and Medicinal Weeds​


  1. Bitter Cress
  2. Borage
  3. Brambles
  4. Burdock
  5. Chickweed
  6. Chicory
  7. Claytonia
  8. Cleavers
  9. Clover
  10. Creeping Charlie
  11. Dandelion
  12. Dead Nettle
  13. Dock
  14. Ferns
  15. Fireweed
  16. Garlic Mustard
  17. Goosefoot
  18. Gorse
  19. Horsetail
  20. Knotweed
  21. Kudzu
  22. Lady’s Thumb
  23. Lamb’s-Quarter
  24. Mallow
  25. Mullein
  26. Nightshade
  27. Pigweed
  28. Pineapple Weed
  29. Plantain
  30. Purslane
  31. Self-Heal
  32. Shepherd’s Purse
  33. Sorrel
  34. Sumac
  35. Stinging Nettle
  36. Thistle
  37. Valerian
  38. Violets
  39. Yarro
Getting old can be fun. You suddenly remember **** from the Olden Days (we DID have oil lamps at the farm for light at night). I just thought of a noxious weed y'all prolly know: Sumac #34
View attachment 345008 What is neat about this is if you take that big bloom and either plunk it whole or bust it up into a big jar full of water and let it sit for 24 hours, you can pour the now-colored water out through a cloth. Add some sugar, and you have really tangy, zesty drink! I lived on sumac soda.
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Be advised Unc you are walking on thin ice.
You have named 39 "weeds" so to speak with great medicinal value.
Your mistake is the "drug cartel" does not make $ off of those.
I wouldnt answer the door unarmed ☝️
 
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