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  1. I've just visited the emporium and couldn't help but laugh over the poplar slips. They are almost considered to be weed trees here in Alberta Canada. Certainly I am not aware of anyone deliberately planting them. Poplars are everywhere. Unless these are a different variety than we have here they aren't considered to be the best firewood although we burn in our fire pits all the time in the summer. Usually we cut down deadwood for safety reasons and then use that wood.

  2. My wife can relate with Tim and the beets. I Love the things put in the oven and then coated with butter after they soften up. Wife sticks her nose up in the air. That's ok, means more for me 🙂

  3. Sandra, I love your gardening videos. It would be grand to also see how you put up everything you grow. What is involved with pickling beets? And how do you keep leeks over the winter? My grandparents knew how to preserve everything, but I haven't a clue! Thanks, Bonnie

  4. Tim doesn't like pickled beets? What's wrong with that man! 🙂 Oak-tree-wise, have you ever considered trying to make some acorn-flour? You need to expunge the tannins, but I'm told you can make a decent flour out of ground-acorns once you expunge the acid via several leechings/soaks.

  5. As an experiment you might put some phosphate around the chestnuts and wood ash ( potassium) and see if that helps. I wish I could grow leeks like that!

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