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Taking the Open out of Open Source.
So, Version 3.0 of North Korea's own Redstar Linux distribution got uploaded to thepiratebay (and posted on Reddit) today so I decided to a take a look at the Linux experience inside the Glorious Leader's paradise.
It starts with two files:
[david@psyclone Red Star OS 3.0 Server]$ ls -l
total 873028
-rw-r—r— 1 david david 37853184 Jun 2 10:25 boot.iso
-rw-r—r— 1 david david 856113152 Jun 2 10:26 rss3_32_key_gui_20131212.iso
For some reason they decided you need a boot disk to start the installation. It feels a bit like playing pirated games on the Dreamcast, but fair enough. [edit] Apparantly the boot.iso image is to avoid the serial check. This really is like piracy on the Dreamcast!. Anyway, let's install!
The first thing you are treated with is a prompt for CD-key:
Definitely the first time I see CD-keys used for Linux. But it doesn't matter, you can enter anything (or even leave it empty) as the CD-Key check is removed by the boot.iso crack.
After that you're asked to configure the network:
IPv6 support! North Korea is definitely ready for the future.
When the network is done configuring you get this popup asking you to insert the next CD:
And this is where the installation starts getting a bit tricky due to the language barrier:
However I noticed that the input was changed to asterisks, so this must be the root password:
It believe it needs to have 1 upper case and 1 numeral to be accepted.
Time to configure disk layout. Luckily it's already setup, I can't imagine doing this from scratch without understanding the menu. Finding the right menu entry to get to the next step is hard enough.
Accidently printed layout details while trying to navigate to the next step. Seems like it's setup with LVM.
After accidently deleting the disk layout and having to restart the installer a few times, I think I found the right menu choice:
Now you get a choice of desktop environment. KDE/QT3/QT4 apparantly. I'm not sure what the QT options would leave me with, but let's go with KDE:
Followed by an automatic reboot into the installed system. Quite smooth I must say!
Boot splash screen. I'm already in love with this distribution.
Login screen!
Only a root account is created by default. Not very good Linux practice.
We're in!
Because they're using the Anaconda installer, we have this log:
Here we find out Redstar Linux is a fork of RHEL6 or one of it's derivatives, like CentOS. Also notice the Asia/Pyongyang timezone.
Here I confirm I'm running Redstar 3.0 (release 1?)
Kernel version 2.6.32 with patches up until 2013/05.
Which means OpenSSL is vulnerable to Heartbleed! OpenSSL version actually predates Heartbeat extensions, so not vulnerable!
Even though we're running a Redhat fork, they don't seem to be using yum:
[edit] I reinstalled the OS with all optional dependencies. Yum is apparantly one of them. It's configured against the CentOS repositories.
There's an interesting Input Pad in the toolbox up in the right corner of the desktop.
Default set is "noble names". Because the only reason you would want to use a computer is to write about how much you love the royal family.
[edit] Here's a translation of the symbols from Reddit user Leujo :
I can read Korean. If you're curious the "Noble Names" font's top line reads:
Kim Il Sung Kim Jong Il Kim Jong Eun
We have a browser as well:
Seems to be a fork of Firefox:
Default IPTables rules:
Accepts inbound SSH by default.
However there's no SSH daemon running:
Or even installed:
Remote administration hasn't quite catched on in North Korea.
There also doesn't seem to be any Office suite installed due to this being the Server version of the OS. All we have is this basic text editor (Gedit):
And a PDF reader is included too:
I think it's Evince.
Desktop background is very boring. Let's see what else we have to choose between.
A few generic Leader approved backgrounds, and of course some lovely DPRK style logos.
I especially love this one:
Why does the earth have rings? Because space.
I got some requests for all the wallpapers from the distribution. Here they are!
As for the question on whether there are any backdoors… A nmap scan shows not a single port reachable from the outside:
[david@psyclone ~]$ nmap -p1-65535 192.168.10.125
Starting Nmap 6.46 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2014-06-03 13:08 CEST
Nmap scan report for 192.168.10.125
Host is up (0.0037s latency).
All 65535 scanned ports on 192.168.10.125 are closed
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 1.01 seconds
However this doesn't eliminate the possibility of hidden backdoors using port knocking, etc.
I also left Wireshark capturing the VirtualBox interface on the outside (so Redstar couldn't hide any packets) and it didn't see any suspicious activity. The only traffic going back and forth is this:
6821 325.120671000 192.168.10.125 18.104.22.168 HTTP 131 GET /mgetmetar.php?cccc=KBOS HTTP/1.1 HOST weather.noaa.gov
I.e. this URL: http://weather.noaa.gov/mgetmetar.php?cccc=KBOS
So for some reason Red Star Linux is pulling weather data for the KBOS station, which is located in Boston :
MA BOSTON KBOS BOS 72509 42 22N 071 01W 6 X U A 0 USAnd gets this data returned:
A closer look at netstat shows us the connection, too:
And to see which process the connection belongs to, we do this:
In other words, this is just the Gnome clock doing some default weather checking stuff.
Anyway, this concludes my brief view of DPRK's Redstar Linux. Redstar Linux is best Linux. I hope you enjoyed it too.
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3. North Korea: Although North Korea rarely rises to the significant (even
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Based on the feedback from web development community we just released the Customer Technology Preview (CTP) of Web Deployment Projects for Visual Studio 2008... This release of Web Deployment Projects (WDP) has all the features that VS 2005 WDP release has and in addition has few other enhancements which I will call out later in this post...
We will be releasing the final version of Web Deployment Projects for Visual Studio 2008 in January 2008 after incorporating all the feedback that we receive via this Dec 2007 CTP release… This CTP is a substantial milestone as it will unblock lot of Web Developers, who depended upon WDP to go ahead and use the latest and greatest features of Visual Studio 2008…
Visual Studio 2008 Web Deployment Projects is an add-in to Visual Studio 2008 which provides developers with advanced compilation and deployment options... A Web Deployment project is extensible, enabling web developers to create pre-build and post-build actions...
Web Deployment Projects does not touch any shipping binaries within VS 2008… WDP neither changes the way Visual Studio 2008 Web Sites & Web Application Projects build nor does it changes the files in the source Web site project in any way... Instead, it takes an existing Web project as input and generate a precompiled Web as an output...
Visual Studio 2008 Web Deployment Projects preserves all the core functionalities that Visual Studio 2005 Web Deployment Projects had... You can read more about this core functionalities in the VS 2005 WDP white paper on MSDN... Also a tutorial on Web Deployment Projects VS 2005 can be found at Scottgu's blog...
Before installing the WDP for VS 2008 CTP release ensure that .NET Framework 3.5 is installed on the machine… .NET Framework 3.5 can be downloaded from Microsoft Download Center…
WDP for Visual Studio 2008 - December 2007 CTP release can be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=0FF6B63F-F79D-4590-B619-A2A4E06820F0&displaylang=en
We have ensured that your migration from WDP for VS 2005 to WDP for VS 2008 is as smooth as migration of your Web Site or Web Application itself… Below is a quick step by step tutorial of various scenarios that you might face while migrating…
1. When you try to open your VS 2005 Web Site with VS 2008 you will be prompted with the below dialog box to upgrade to .NET Framework version 3.5:
2. You can choose to upgrade to .NET Framework version 3.5, although it is not necessary… WDP internally uses .NET Framework 3.5 but it does not enforce your website to upgrade to 3.5 version… What this means is that you can still use great VS 2008 features even if your organization is not yet ready to move to .NET Framework 3.5… In my walkthrough I will stick with .NET 2.0 to illustrate that it still works :-)…
3. On clicking "No" your web site should open without WDP in it… Now you will have to go to File --> Add Existing Project option and navigate to the folder where your WDP project file is located (i.e. .wdproj file)… By default you will not see the .wdproj file as WDP is still not an intrinsic project type of VS… Although if you type "*.wdproj" in the "File Name" textbox and hit Open then you will be able to see your WDP project file from VS 2005… Select this file and hit Open…
4. You will now be presented with the Visual Studio conversion dialog as below:
5. Just keep cruising through this Conversion Wizard and you should have your WDP for VS 2005 project migrated to WDP for VS 2008 with all your settings and configurations preserved...
1. If you try to open your VS 2005 Web + WDP in VS 2008 without installing WDP for VS 2008 then using steps 1, 2 & 3 described in the Scenario 1 will result in the following pop-up:
This will block you from moving ahead from WDP standpoint, although if you download and install WDP, you should be able to proceed as described in Step 4 of Scenario 1 above…
2. Instead of opening a WAP or Web Site if you instead try to open your solution file (which will have reference to the WDP project already) then your solution explorer will look as below:
3. If you now install WDP for VS 2008 then you will have to close and reopen your IDE… After restarting your IDE, if you attempt to open the solution file you will be shown the same conversion wizard as described in Step 4 of Scenario 1 above…
Although, if you have not yet opened your VS 2005 Web + WDP in VS 2008 then I will strongly encourage you to first download and install WDP for VS 2008 and then go ahead with your migration...
Based on feedback from multiple users we have enhanced WDP so that it does not wipe out the precompiled web from previous WDP run until the current WDP does not build successfully… This is specifically useful if you have created IIS Virtual directory pointing to the output location... Now even if your current WDP build does not succeed your web site in IIS will still continue to function… At the same time this also implies that it will be important to take a note of the WDP output in the VS output window before grabbing the deployed output for any further processing as your output folder might have the output from the previous build...
WDP for VS 2008 has an option to create IIS virtual directory for the output folder as shown in the WDP image below:
This feature has been enhanced to work great with IIS7 as well… Although do note that you will need to manually set the appropriate folder permissions on the "Output Folder" you define in the "Compilation" section of WDP (e.g. Network Service for IIS6 or IIS_IUSRS for IIS7)… We will consider automating this in the future…
WDP uses aspnet_merge.exe to perform various merge options shown in WDP dialog below:
In VS 2005 timeframe WDP for VS 2005 shipped aspnet_merge.exe in the box… With VS 2008 aspnet_merge.exe ships along with framework SDK, hence WDP for VS 2008 install does not contain aspnet_merge.exe… When you install Visual Studio 2008, aspnet_merge.exe should get automatically installed in "%Program Files%\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\bin" folder… WDP will require aspnet_merge.exe to be present at the above mentioned location to function correctly...
We are hoping that WDP for VS 2008 will help you with your deployment needs and make you web development experience better with Visual Studio 2008... We are eager to hear your feedback and suggestions for improvements hence we are enabling various below mentioned ways by which you can share your experiences...
1. MSConnect Feedback System
2. Web Deployment Projects Forum on http://www.asp.net
There is an active community of WDP users on the ASP.Net forums. WDP team also regularly visits the forums so please feel free to go http://forums.asp.net/1020/ShowForum.aspx to share your feedback or ask queries…
3. Blog Comments
We will be monitoring this blog comments also fairly regularly so feel free to provide your feedback and comments here...
- Vishal R. Joshi | Program Manager | Visual Web Developer Team
It's now clear that it was just an issue of time that the WDP was not included with Visual Studio 2008 and that it will be included with a next version of Visual Studio.
I'm getting the error "missing section appSettings" when I build. It looks like its putting the output into a TempBuildDir folder instead of the one I specified in the WDP.
You can send your project to me at vijoshi at microsoft... Will take a look...
Thanks for bring out the point, I can see such behavior for other config section replacements... Investigating this issue... Will it be possible for you to log a MS Connect bug as specified above that way you will get notified on the teams developments on this... We will also try to update the comments here...
There is a bug in the v2005 version that prevents a web-deployment-project being used to build a web-application-project (as opposed to a filesystem-based, no-project-file one) from the command-line using MSBuild.
That prevents us from using WAPs with WDPs in our continuous integration. Has that been addressed in this update, or is it a problem with WAPs?
1) Will this install co-exist with the existing install of WDP for VS.NET 2005? I have VS.NET 2005 and VS.NET 2008 installed and working quite happily on the same box.
2) Will this CTP need to be uninstalled before installing the final version in January?
3) Does this version "understand" not to deploy files which have been excluded from the project? This is a major irritation with the current version.
I know a lot of folks have used web deployment projects (WDP) with Team Build. The WDP release for VS
Answers to your qustions inline:
A.) Yes...
A.) Yes, although your projects will work just fine with the RTW release...
A.) We do not have the exact featue you are asking but an alternate feature to exclude the files that WDP should not consider... Please visit http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa479568.aspx and search for "ExcludeFromBuild", it explains how to use it...
Hi Peter,
WDP VS 2008 works both with Web Application Projects (WAPs) as well Web Sites...
> Thanks for bring out the point, I can see such
> behavior for other config section replacements...
> Investigating this issue...
Investigate no further. It is because WDP looks for the web.config file in whatever path you have as your output path. This will fail, since the build takes place in the "TempBuildDir" and the output dir is empty.
If you put a valid web.config file in your OutputPath, voila, web.config replacing works.
Except for the copying to the output path... but that is another issue.
- sjl
When using an any targets (specifically an AfterBuild in my case), the web deployment projects in VS 2008 don't copy files to the specified output directory. There is no error, it just doesn't copy the files.
If you comment out the target, everything works fine. Note that this worked perfectly in VS 2005. Something in this new release wasn't tested and was broken.
This week my team released updates of the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit as well as the Visual Studio Web
Hi Scott,
Thanks for bringing this to our attention, and we are currently investigating. Just to make sure, we are seeing the same problem, are you just editing the WDP project file to perform an AfterBuild action? Also, can you see if your files are being copied to ./TempBuildDir instead?
I'm experiencing the same issue as above.
The web.config replacement doesn't work because it's looking for the replacement xml file in the output directory, which hasn't been populated yet.
Also, I raised another issue in the forums, but it doesn't seem to be anybody else having it:
Even if I only get up the the "web config replacement" point and then it fails, I get a few GAC dlls copied to my bin folder:
and System.Transactions
Obvioulsy these shouldn't be in the bin folder, and I;m not even referencing some anywhere.
The same project it's been running perfectly under VS 2005 for months.
Any ideas?
>> 3) Does this version "understand" not to deploy
>> files which have been excluded from the project?
>> This is a major irritation with the current
>> version.
> A.) We do not have the exact featue you are asking
> but an alternate feature to exclude the files that
> WDP should not consider
> "ExcludeFromBuild"
I understand about ExcludeFromBuild, but that still involves doing things twice, and editing the WDP file manually...
E.g. if I have a folder of images, I might want to deploy only some of them today, and some different ones next week, and a combination of the two the week after that. Therefore, it's extremely useful to be able to right-click on the image file in Project Explorer and select Exclude From Project, and then when I want to include the image again, I just do the reverse. If WDP could be prevented from deploying those files which have been exluded from the project in this way, that would be incredibly useful. Would that really represent an enormous amount of development effort...?


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Before a room of skeptics from his Fatah party, Azzam el-Ahmad explains what he agreed to, ostensibly on their behalf, when he signed onto the Yemeni Initiative last month alongside Hamas in Sanaa.
"There are some sides in Fatah which are trying to interpret our actions in a negative way," he bellows over the microphone at the Shepherd's Hotel. "The Yemeni Initiative said everything has to go back to the status quo," before the Hamas coup in Gaza. "I challenge anyone who says that I signed an agreement saying otherwise!"
Days after a Hamas-Fatah reconciliation deal was announced, senior political figures in Fatah said that such talks were unacceptable, and that Ahmad had no right to sign an agreement bringing the warring Palestinian political factions back together.
Hamas has joined in, accusing Fatah of backpedaling on its agreement to work together again as Palestinian brothers.
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Screaming masses queued through the thunderstorms of Queens, as guards deftly handed out umbrellas. Just as Tinguely's machine could be seen "shaking and quivering in all its members," in the words of Calvin Tomkins, so the white hospitality tents of Long Island City shook with the fury of a driving rain as thousands of patrons begged security musclemen to thrust them into the overflowing throng inside.
At one point, three shuttle buses of invited guests from 53rd Street disembarked and were immediately forced to turn back.
Forty years ago, Tomkins tells us, "Having waited an hour and a half to see the show, spectators now found themselves enveloped in a choking cloud that completely obscured their view of the machine."
Last night, art trippers giddily tanked by unlimited cocktails rushed to the street for a smoke, only to be told they had to rejoin the huge line of newcomers snaking down 33rd Street into 47th Street and all the other mixed up, screwed up, crisscrossed streets that Tinguely through Queens, before they could get back in.
By 8:45 40 years ago, "brilliant yellow smoke flashes now began going off all over the machine," Tomkins tells us.
By 8:45 last night in Queens, when yellow evening light met thunderheads in glorious climax, Whitney Museum chief Max Anderson, accompanied by wife Jacqueline in a black body-hugging jumpsuit slit down both sides, humbly offered his hand to the triumphant Lowry.
Roberta Smith and Jerry Saltz, monarchs of Lilliput, surveyed their subjects with élan. A re-emerged, resplendent, newly empowered Kynaston McShine warmly embraced the Hammer Museum's Annie Philbin, saucily clad in gangster duds.
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I enjoy watching Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness (sweet!) with my son, and their new episode is shades of 2A and self-defense.
The gov't has decreed that kung-fu can only be used with a permit. When Po and the Furious Five are busted using kung-fu hundreds of times (defending the village from bandits) without a permit, kung-fu is outlawed. Naturally, the bandits celebrate and go to town. Po decides to don a mask and go vigilante, busting the bandits at night. The constable is not happy and asks Po to hunt the vigilante down. The bandits have a very interesting thing to say to the constable about the ban.
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Location - Scotstoun Stadium, Glasgow G14 9HD
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Location - Crownpoint Sports Complex, 183 Crownpoint Road, Glasgow, G40 2AL
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Location - Crownpoint Sports Park G40 2AL
Disciplines - Includes Junior Sections
Garscube Harriers
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The 2012 Chevrolet Silverado HD truck's standard heavy-duty Vortec 6.0-liter gasoline V8 has a cast-iron block, aluminum heads and cam-in-block variable valve timing (VVT), which allows the engine to use late intake valve closing to improve efficiency and achieve an optimum balance of low-rpm torque and free-breathing, high-rpm horsepower. The 2012 Silverado's 6.6-liter Duramax turbodiesel offers significantly more power and torque, "smart" exhaust braking, the Allison 1000 6-speed automatic transmission, and full B20 biodiesel capability. Its NOx emissions are reduced by some 63 percent via a selective catalyst reduction after-treatment system that uses urea-based diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) in a 5.3-gallon tank that needs to be replenished about every 5,000 miles. Given the Duramax's standard 36-gallon tank, you can theoretically drive up to 680 miles between fill-ups, which equates to almost 19 mpg on the highway (unloaded).
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I own this car - My approximate mileage is 160,000
overall rating 9 of 10rating detailsLikely to recommend this car? (1-10): 10
"I have put 160,000 miles on it towing 18k for about 40k miles, couldnt ask for a better more reliable truck. Very comfy to drive!"
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By automan62 on Saturday, October 11, 2014
I own this car - My approximate mileage is 140,000
overall rating 4 of 10rating detailsPros: "power, fuel milege and looks"
Cons: "emmissions and trans leak problem"
Likely to recommend this car? (1-10): 2
"particulate filter is a pain when driving going into regen approx. each tank of fuel, when hauling cuts power and Allison trans front pump seal leak was a pain had to have it repaired 3 times at dealership. All in all good truck for the money 2008 duramax 3500"
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By Nick on Sunday, October 05, 2014
I own this car - My approximate mileage is 2,000
overall rating 10 of 10rating detailsPros: "Great mileage, overall quality of build is great"
Cons: "Would like fifth wheel hitch for reese system"
Likely to recommend this car? (1-10): 10
"The new Coca Dune interior is very relaxing and quite luxurious. The LTZ is your best bargain for the buck."
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By Steve on Monday, August 04, 2014
I own this car - My approximate mileage is 97,000
overall rating 10 of 10rating detailsPros: "Like new truck"
Cons: "None"
Likely to recommend this car? (1-10): 10
"I beefed this truck up to handle my 11.5' Overhead lance camper, it has tie downs for the camper added leaf spring (didn't need it) also has foam filled air bags. B/W turn over ball. Twin receiver for for extended hitch. Leather interior,power slid rear window , K&N cold air intake, custom exhaust gauges. DVD player, Nav."
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By Chris7055 on Thursday, July 10, 2014
I own this car - My approximate mileage is 136,000
overall rating 10 of 10rating detailsLikely to recommend this car? (1-10): 10
"This truck is in exultant condition. It has a Kaphide Utility body with a enclosed sliding center, a hitch receiver and a ladder rack."
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I own this car - My approximate mileage is 15,000
overall rating 10 of 10rating detailsPros: "very reliable"
Cons: "interior"
Likely to recommend this car? (1-10): 10
"great truck, pulls super great, very smooth with no down shifting, hooked it up with dodges and fords and drug them all around drilling location, would like a little bettter interior, very happy with fuel system, filters last a long time, 50 below zero fires rite up, in snow country hardly ever use 4 wheel drive, low end torque is amazing, comes with really good tires on it, drives straight and smooth not like the lumber wagon dodges, had a new dodge took it back in 3 wks, fuel ecomomy and ride quality"
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- Posted by greendesert (My Page) on Wed, Apr 10, 13 at 12:48
I got a rather late start I guess. I didn't even realize how late it is. I have eggplants in the ground (Diamond and Rotonda Bianca Sfumata di Rosa), Peppers (Gogosari from Romania) and one Tomato (Kellog's Breakfast). Just planted 5 moringa trees in the ground, managed to kill one in the process, they're terribly brittle and sensitive. My mellons and zuke type plants are still in little pots, started from seed, they don't seem to be in a hurry to grow. I haven't started my Armenian cucumbers yet because they hate the cool nights. I have the following : Charentais cantaloupe, Old Tennessee muskmelon, Trombetta Lunga di Albenga squash and I started some White seeded watson watermelons that didn't make it and i need to reseed. In front of my house I have lovage that I planted in the fall, it survived the winter, looks great, Also several varieties of basil from last year made it through the winter and are flowering now. Canna lilies are gorgeous, Trovita orange is covered with hundreds of tiny fruit and flowers, little pomegranate tree has a few flowers, i'm hoping for more hmm... I guess things are not so bad :) |
- Posted by greendesert (My Page) on Wed, Apr 10, 13 at 12:54
hmm... what else... snowpeas are producing but they didn't like the warm spell, and the pods just don't taste so good. I still have stinging nettle growing, Grapevines are growing like gangbusters, filled with grapes. The wind broke several nice branches with grape clusters on them. bummer. Mint is happy, dill is harvested, lettuce was starting to bolt, so I harvested it all, and let the chickens work that part of the garden to make it ready for the next thing: Okra... I'm getting ready to plant Cow Horn Okra, so that's exciting, we love okra. My peach tree leafed out but no flowers or fruit. :( Mulberry tree, producing for the first time, looks promissing, can't wait to sample them, but the birds are eyeballing them, and i'm eyballing the birds through the scope on my pellet gun. Usually about this time I end up having to deal with a bout of milldew on the grapes, but no problems yet. The whiteflies started attacking one of my grapes but they seem to have slowed down just for a bit. I need to blast them to hell with poisons, nasty buggers. Nothing else seems to work. |
All the peppers and tomatoes froze to the ground. Half of the peppers came back. All the tomatoes died. I'm cutting way back this year. I started very late too. Planted tomatoes and peppers about three weeks ago. Planted zucchini three days ago. The Artichokes I planted last year are going strong. One of the four Artichokes died. The rest have produced stalks and have little artichokes on them. |
i planted tomatoes and chiles last weekend in feb and most of them froze then i replanted 2 weeks later and i looks like most othe the ones i thought were goners have come back to life so i have double everything might make for cramped quarters in the fall but i can bring myself to cull the survivors |
in the vegetable garden, herbs that survived the winter include dill, sage, oregano and chives. My lettuce is also bolting, I'll cut it this weekend. I planted peppers (jalapeno and poblano) basil, lemon verbena, and tomatoes: Black Cherry, Husky Cherry, and SunSugar cherry tomatoes, and Black Prince, Mr. Stripey, Ace 55, Red Beefsteak and Pink Brandywine heirlooms. Once I cut the lettuce, I'll add okra and tomatillos in that space. |
- Posted by Centurion_ Verde Valley, Z8, A (My Page) on Thu, Apr 11, 13 at 10:03
Tomatoes and squash have been in the ground for a couple of weeks here. I did plant one early girl 6 weeks ago, but here in the north/central hinterlands I've had to cover the tomatoes at night about half the time. Next year I will wait a little longer to plant outdoors. As for the wind we had a couple days ago, that was the first time I've ever covered tomatoes in the daytime. I didn't want to risk having them break off and die, so cover them I did. No losses to date. Figs are begining to break dormancy. The desert king(?) thisisme gave me has 40+ brebas on it allready, and more are popping up all the time. VDB, except for one branch, has apparantly died to the ground, as have five of my other trees. All are sprouting new growth from the roots however. Mulberry trees, which we are trying out for the first time, are putting on new growth, as are the blackberries. Things are shaping up pretty good so far. |
Centurion Got to love those DK brebas. Amazing taste and texture. Of course Janice Seedless is supposed to be better based on DWN taste tests. Really hoping it's not just a lot of hype for one of their patented varieties. I will let you know. Like some of the others. I used to always want to plant as soon as possible. But after having lost plants due to a late season freeze I find myself holding back a bit. We have a long growing season here anyway. No need to be in a hurry. |
- Posted by Centurion_ Verde Valley, Z8, A (My Page) on Sat, Apr 13, 13 at 23:31
Too soon to plant tomatoes up here in the Verde Valley. But I did it anyway. The black plastic keeps the ground warm. All that other stuff is to keep the plastic in place during our wind storms, or to cover the tomatoes at night. |
- Posted by Centurion_ Verde Valley, Z8, A (My Page) on Sat, Apr 13, 13 at 23:34
I planted mid-March and just checked on the tomatoes today. All flowering, and three with fruit - Black Prince, mismarked Black Cherry (they look oval), and Husky Cherry: |
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Took a mini vacation to Davidson River Campground in Brevard earlier this week. Decided to do things a bit differently. We ditched the stoves and picked up 2 dutch ovens. One for the oven and one for the fire. So we worked out a few things to try and fix in them. Dinners were just burgers and hot dogs on the fire grate.
Regular Dutch oven on the grate getting oil hot.
Frying up the huggies. Hershey's kisses wrapped in half a biscuit. Fried. And rolled in confectioners sugar. We may have replaced the Smore.
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Breakfast was Monkey Bread, cinnamon pull aparts. Half a biscuit dipped in oil then rolled in cinnamon and sugar. Melted half a stick of butter in the regular dutch oven. Placed coals under it and on top. First batch was a bit under done. Second just a touch over done. Third, well, kind of looked like charcoal top and bottom. 2 out of 3 ain't bad for the first go around.
Brought some of the old tools I found cleaning out my Grandmothers houses and buildings. The draw knife and hatchet saw a lot of use. Did very well and are likely over 50 years old.
Decided it was time for my girls to start learning how to start and build a fire. My oldest busted her first fire with a fire steel. She started most of the fires for the rest of the trip. Very handy for my wife when I was out fishing.
First try at char cloth too. Wrapped some cut up cotton t shirt material in foil to not spoil the oven.
Then let it set in the fire a good while. Turned it occasionally.
First try at starting a fire was no good. Partly the steel was blinding me in the dark. Tried again in the morning and could see the embers light the cloth slightly. Finally got an ember to take, wrapped a wood shaving in the cloth, and managed to work it into a flame. Pretty cool new trick.
Can't beat a great trip with the family while learning and teaching some valuable new skills. We are now looking to do most of our cooking in the dutch ovens. Just adds something extra to the experience cooking everything over a fire. My youngest never quite got the fire steel right, so more work there. But she did great running the 3 lb hammer helping me split the wood down. Would love to find a decent froe to replace the hatchet for splitting kindling. And I need to work on the char cloth too. Not sure if it will replace the cotton on top of my fire starters, but it's a nice alternative. Next trip I need to teach the girls how to build one without the starters.
Oh, and the military sleep system was a big hit with the girls. They were toasty. I got a bit cool in the hammock the first night thinking the bivy would replace the thermal barrier I normally use. Close, but not quite. Added the barrier the next 2 nights and slept just fine.


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I planted several tomato plants, too close I know realize!
It's amazing how big they can get. Several cherry, and a few crimson sprinters(do well in cool wx) and a few I got from the store. All have green toms on them, not ripening. They are slightly crowded, maybe not getting enough sun? Is it possible to trim (prune) leaves without harming the plant? Also, temps have been in upper 90s here, and I've noticed the yellow flowers turning brownish black instead of producing fruit. Some dry, curly lower leafs, and a few yellow lower leaves. Can anyone give me any advice? Thanks!!!!! |
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- Posted by homegardenpa PA Zone 6 (My Page) on Thu, Jun 24, 10 at 17:22
Here's my advice. Care for them as normal, because they are acting normally to unfavorable conditions. It's too hot for the plants, and they don't like it, and they are dropping flowers because they can't pollinate reliably above 95 degrees. The dry curly leaves are most likely also due to the extreme heat. The leaf curl is most likely what they call tomato "physiological leaf roll" and is a response to some sort of stress - like you would see from high temps, amongst other things. When the temps drop back into the 70s-80s, they will go back to their normal productive selves and begin setting fruit and ripening fruit as usual. |
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Thanks!!!! I knew the heat was an issue. You are right. |
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Thank you so much, person who asked and person who answered this! My tomato plants are doing the exact same thing: curly leaves, blackened flowers and a few green tomatoes. But it's also hot as balls here so now it all makes sense! |
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