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re: 2025 Spring Garden Thread

Posted by FowlGuy on 1/16/25 at 7:58 pm to
Go to Berry Irrigation and UV protected bench tops
If you have access to a different water source pump water into it

re: Vacuum Sealer

Posted by FowlGuy on 1/16/25 at 7:42 pm to
Sorry if anything I’m about to say has already been mentioned. I have purchased 3 different regular vacuum sealers in the past, and recently purchased a chamber vac. The biggest upside to a chamber vac is they have no issues with wet items. I catch a lot of catfish during spring summer and a regular vac would always have issues (I have read and tried all the tricks, pre freezing, paper towels etc) no one feels like doing that all the time. If you plan on using it a it, chamber vac
She better not travel to Russia with hash oil.

re: Last night broke me.

Posted by FowlGuy on 10/27/24 at 11:27 am to
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But it helped some of us to reprioritize some things and put LSU football in proper perspective. It’s kids making more money than most of us and their performance should not elevate people’s blood pressure, cause grown men to cuss and lose sleep.


How old are you? Have any kids yet? Just wondering bc like someone earlier mentioned, 1/9/12 was my date. I had two toddlers and another on the way. So I wasn’t super busy at the time. Fast forward 12 years, I watched the first quarter and a half on my phone in the softball complex parking lot waiting for my 12 yo game to start. Coaching her team and all the other shite I have on my plate right now, I looked at the score on the way home and said shite. But prior to 2012 I woulda lost my shite.

re: Final thoughts on Nuss

Posted by FowlGuy on 10/13/24 at 12:36 am to
Been super busy and haven’t been able to watch much this season. But the little bit I have watched is his foot work. He throws way too many passes falling back even if he’s not pressured. The talent is there, nutts is there. Combine all that with fundamentals he’s a Sunday starter in the NFL.

re: Compound mitre saw recs

Posted by FowlGuy on 10/10/24 at 8:36 pm to
Pretty sure I have that one and love it.

re: 2024 Fall Garden Thread

Posted by FowlGuy on 10/9/24 at 5:50 pm to
I’ve had better luck with sugar snap peas in the spring here in southeast Ark. spinach and collard greens are the toughest plants I ever seen make it through the snow we’ve had the past two winters.

re: 2024 Fall Garden Thread

Posted by FowlGuy on 10/9/24 at 9:33 am to


Picked my first batch of Collards this am. First solid cold snap gonna make a Green Gumbo. Haven’t made one yet but it looks amazing with shrimp.

re: 2024 Fall Garden Thread

Posted by FowlGuy on 10/9/24 at 9:29 am to
My mother used to always make a small roux and then cook them down with salt meat. Don’t put so much roux that’s it’s really thick but just enough to give it the flavor. I always throw mine in the crock pot before leaving for work. I add onions and usually either a smoked ham hock or Tasso. Delicious.
In early 2000’s when I was in college, MTV was the worst.
Back story for us idiots please. I’m intrigued.
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How good does the school have to be to make out of state tuition worth it rather than going to LSU or another in state school. For a major that is useful such as pre med, finance, etc.


Not sure if it’s still this way, but The University of Arkansas @ Monticello waves out of state tuition for bordering states. Only 1.5 hours north of Monroe. Yes it’s not a fancy big school. I know a lot of Physicians that have premed there. May be worth a look.

re: 2024 Spring Garden Thread

Posted by FowlGuy on 2/14/24 at 6:42 pm to
Google Carmen Peppers. I’ve been growing them for a while now. They’re green, but ripen red. They’re just like the red snack peppers. One year I had 5-8 plants, and in September they went haywire. I bet I had 200+ at one time. Every morning and evening I would go in the garden and eat 10 or so. Taste sweet and hardly ever had any disease on them. One of the only peppers I ever grown here in the south that Dosent mold or rot real quick after it turns red. I’ll plant them every year.
Bc Fentanyl is highly addictive. When they lace any drug, they’re doing it to hook the addict and keep them coming back for more (so they buy more). They do not intend to kill off their buyers. Unfortunately, fentanyl is potent and kill you in small amounts. The addicts keep pushing the envelope and OD.
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Ok explain this to me as I’m wondering how the seed producer gets seed w/o using seed from a hybrid plant?


The plant breeder takes two plants, let’s say tomatoes. Two different varieties. He takes the pollen from the male flower and pollinates thr female flowers of the other tot Mayo plant. With this fruit makes, the seeds within that fruit or a hybrid (F1). You can collect these seeds and plant them next year and it’s a hybrid plant. Now, the seeds of the fruit grown that year are no longer a hybrid. Don’t ask me why. But if you plant them, they may grown plants, they may grow fruit, but you cannot rely on whatever the producer is promoting that hybrid to do (examples larger fruit, uniformity, disease resistance, cracking, heat scald, etc).
Not sure if anyone mentioned it or not but hybrids for thr most part usually have good disease resistance to Serrano diseases. An “heirloom” are the ones you can keep the seeds. They’re typically reliable year to year but may have issues with certain diseases. I have retained tomato seeds before, take it and smear the seeds on a paper towel and let it dry, then when the seeds dry collect them and save them, put em in the freezer until next spring
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If caught early very treatable


There’s some prostate cancer that a gentleman may develops later in life and he will ultimately die of some other form of chronic condition without ever receiving cancer treatments. Then there are some forms where it ain’t pretty. There’s controversy on whether or not PSA screening is appropriate. There can be false positives that lead to anxiety and biopsy’s that are painful and unnecessary. There’s also a strong genetic link to prostate cancer especially African American men. Do some research.

If you have a family history then get screened early. If you don’t have a strong family history around age 50 start getting screened. Look up U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) PSA recommendations.


Imagine waking up one morning and being one of the 11 dumb asses that down voted this.
I support and fully understand what you’re trying to say. But I have the philosophy that when you step out on the playing surface, you should expect to win. If not, they why are you playing? You’re trying to say that we have unrealistic expectations.
I’m suddenly thirsty.
I live here and know farmers here. They still grow rice. But they don’t leave the levees up for the fields to flood, and they disc them after harvest. Idk if you comprehend anything that I posted the first time cat. Yes they try to hop in fall and have been doing it a long time. But if it rains and rains a lot in October and they can’t hip, they cant get in the fields until April.

re: Dodged a bullet

Posted by FowlGuy on 12/31/23 at 7:25 am to
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Had a girl chase me from first grade onward. She wasn't bad looking but there was no chemistry from my side. We lost touch after HS (I learned much later she went to LSU for a semester and stalked me from afar but I didn't know it at the time). We reconnected on social media years later and had lunch a couple of times when she was in town. I was single, she was married. Her texts and phone calls got more and more personal and I was trying to figure a way to distance myself when she called me one night: She was divorcing her husband, she had never loved him, she had always loved me. She wanted me to marry her, I would never have to work {she owned a very successful speech/language therapy practice in Dallas so it was a legit offer). I put the brakes to all that with the quickness and I haven't heard from her since. Not long afterward she married some other guy we went to high school with.


Did you ever tap that?
I believe that this is a multifaceted issue. I live in SE Arkansas and here are my observations.

#1 Farming Practices
When it’s bone dry in October and all the farmers disc the fallen grain fields and hip rows leaning it looking like the Sahara Dessert, ain’t good for ducks. Not to mention if thr land owner Dosent hunt or want to lease the land there’s no water for ducks to stop. I live 60 miles from Miss River and I haven’t seen a duck this year and it’s all Ag fields from my house to river. I also have not seen one snow goose or one speck on the ground.
I’ve lived here for 20 years and the last 3 have been horrendous. Public land has mainly been due to no water accumulation.

#2 hatching grounds
Farming practices up there have nearly ruined nesting grounds and they’re trying to make it right. No birds hatching=decline in numbers.

#3 Humans
We always find a way to frick up something good. Example. I know a gentlemen that has his money and is an avid duck guy. He lives on his property that he maintains for duck hunting. They plant fields and there are some farm fields on this property as well as oak flats. Through his observations, the areas of land that he sees the highest number of birds are the areas he leaves as Natural Vegetation.
This goes back to #1 on the list. If you drive in the SEARK and Miss delta during the summer the only thing green is the crops. All head rows, ditch banks, fallow fields are burned to the ground. No natural vegetation. No feed for the birds.

Just like a Whitetail deer, a ducks main goal every day is to survive. It needs food and water. If it don’t have that. It will find it. Period. There is no food on the ground with water in south east Arkansas right now. Maybe that’s why I haven’t seen a duck!

re: Advice on Shotgun

Posted by FowlGuy on 12/28/23 at 8:23 pm to
Try out Retay
God wouldn’t have given humans incisors and canines if he didn’t want us to eat meat. Could you imagine a vegan alligator or a camel carnivore?