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Jerusalem artichokes for planting (Arcadia nr Baldwin-Stocker Sch)
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- Helianthus tuberosus is a variety of sunflower - aka sunchokes - tubers available for eating or planting - tubers can be cooked and used like potatoes = each tuber planted can yield about 5 pounds with good soil and enough water and sunlight = good for preppers - these are sprouting tubers ready to put in the ground for an Autumn harvest
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Real wood rolltop desk (El Monte)
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- Big and heavy, rolltop desk in good condition. Free to good home.
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Olive tree seedlings (Arcadia nr Baldwin-Stocker Sch)
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- Olive tree seedlings, various heights from 6" to 12"
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Jerusalem artichokes (Arcadia nr Baldwin-Stocker Sch)
81d
- Helianthus tuberosus is a variety of sunflower - aka sunchokes - tubers available for eating or planting - tubers can be cooked and used like potatoes = each tuber planted can yield about 5 pounds with good soil and enough water and sunlight = good for preppers
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Christmas lights = need repair (Arcadia nr Baldwin-Stocker Sch)
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81d
- 4 strings of white Christmas lights - need repair. One string about half of the lights are ok. The other 3 strings no lights come on. Repair is not hard or complicated, but I do not have the light string repair tool, and don't want to spend $20 to buy it, and I have too many projects.
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6 metal shelves (Arcadia nr Baldwin-Stocker Sch)
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99d
- 6 metal shelves - from a garage cabinet. 36" W x 17 " D x 1" thick
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Steel shelving (Arcadia nr Baldwin-Stocker Sch)
Gifted
99d
- Steel shelving - 72" H x 36" W x 15"D - fair condition. shelving and it can be disassembled (and reassembled) with simple tools – a flathead screwdriver and a pair of pliers. The processes would be faster with a powered screwdriver or drill motor plus the correct size of open end wrench or nut driver.
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Razor elec motocross-style ebike (Arcadia nr Baldwin-Stocker Sch)
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- Razor motocross-style ebike for kid - needs replacement batteries - charger included
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Jerusalem artichoke plants (Arcadia nr Baldwin-Stocker Sch)
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- Jerusalem artichoke (aka sunchoke aka helianthus tuberosus) plants. They grow 8 feet tall, yielding small sunflowers in the summer plus about 5 pounds of underground tubers for each plant in the fall. Store, clean and use the tubers like you would new potatoes. Tubers have a potato texture with faint artichoke flavor. Once established, they will always emerge to grow a new crop the following year - no matter how many tubers you harvest, you will always miss a few, and each tuber (or even fragment of a tuber) will sprout into new plants. But they do not become a nuisance, because the plants are easily removed, and they only spread from the tubers. Prep now for empty store shelves resulting from food supply chain interruptions, natural disasters or Zombie Apocalypse.
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Milkweed and caterpillars (Arcadia nr Baldwin-Stocker Sch)
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1y
- Milkweed plants plus monarch butterfly caterpillars - great for school science projects or to make your yard a butterfly sanctuary
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Jerusalem artichoke-sunchoke tubers (Arcadia nr Baldwin-Stocker Sch)
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1y
- Jerusalem artichoke aka sunchoke tubers fo planting. Prepare for the zombie apocalypse or supply chain interruptions when food may become scarce. These a nutritious substitute for potatoes in any recipe. Eat them raw, sliced thin as a salad garnish. My favorite is to boil until fork-tender, then drain, drizzle with butter while the sunchokes are still warm, and sprinkle fresh rosemary on the batch. Yum. Potato texture enhanced with a faint artichoke flavor. Easy to plant and grow, unfussy, drought-tolerant. Pick a sunny spot preferably near a wall or fence because these guys grow up to 10' tall and produce small sunflowers in the summer. When stalks die back in Autumn, cut them off about 6" above soil level so that you can find them again to harvest the tubers which grow underground. With good soil and adequate watering, each plant can yield about 5 pounds of tubers. Once you plant these, they will return every year. You can harvest beginning in about November, through the end of February. After that, the tubers begin to sprout And no matter how thoroughly you dig and sift, you will never find all of the tubers, thus guaranteeing a new crop with zero effort. The plants are easily removed if they become too numerous, so no pest or noxious weed danger.
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Brother 5170 mono printer (Arcadia nr Baldwin-Stocker Sch)
Gifted
1y
- Brother HL-5170DNLT monochrome printer. It works fine, but with a stripe on each printed page - probably needs a new toner or developer cartridge because it sat too long without being used.
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Apollo upright piano (Temple City)
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1y
- Antique Apollo upright piano available for adoption - needs some repair because a few keys do not work, but overall condition is ok. Temple City near Live Oak Ave x El Monte Ave
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Milkweed for Monarch butterflies (Arcadia nr Baldwin-Stocker Sch)
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1y
- We have a bumper crop of milkweed seedlings - probably more than 100 - plenty to share. Milkweed is easy to grow and quickly becomes established in your yard.
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Brother 5170 mono laser printer (Arcadia nr Baldwin-Stocker Sch)
Expired
1y
- This Brother HL-5170DNLT printer was retired and replaced with a bigger Brother. The 5120 still works but it prints with a horizontal stripe on the page -- needs maintenance.
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Mostly dead solar landscape lights (Arcadia nr Baldwin-Stocker Sch)
Expired
1y
- I replaced more than a dozen old solar landscape lights-- some of the leftovers still work, others are broken. Maybe someone can find a use for the parts. My guess is that the batteries wore out. Solar cells and LED lights should still be ok. I was planning to scavenge the solar cells and build a small array for recharging phones. But too many projects too little time.
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Landscape solar lights for parts (Arcadia nr Baldwin-Stocker Sch)
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1y
- Replaced several solar landscaping spotlights. Some still work, others appear to be dead. Maybe you can use the solar cells or batteries or LED lights. Assuming that the solar cells are good, connecting them in series can produce enough energy to be useful - 5 volts to charge a phone, 12v to charge a car battery. At least that was my plan for a fun experiment, but too many projects and too little time.
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BBQ charcoal model (Arcadia nr Baldwin-Stocker Sch)
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1y
- My kids bought me a new black kettle Weber charcoal BBQ for Father's Day, so this red beast must find a new home.
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Wooden pallet - large and heavy (Arcadia nr Baldwin-Stocker Sch)
Gifted
1y
- Large = 30" x 60" (rounding up about 1" each dimension because I dislike odd numbers) Heavy = 60 pounds (rounding down a couple of pounds but you get the idea) now curbside ready for pickup Plan ahead - this sucker is larger than the average wooden pallet and MUCH heavier - it barely fit into my hatchback and required most of my strength to muscle it into place. Measure twice cut once
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Jerusalem artichokes / sunchokes (Arcadia nr Baldwin-Stocker Sch)
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1y
- Jerusalem artichoke / sunchoke tubers - suitable for either eating (wash thoroughly then boil and use like a potato) or planting. They love sun and are not fussy about water. But more water equals a larger harvest of tubers in the Fall. I harvested 20 pounds of tubers from a 3' diameter area. Good survival food in case of supply chain issues. Once established, they give annual crop in the Fall, and can be left in the ground until almost April, digging tubers as needed. They sprout easily from the smallest tuber or fragment, and some tubers will always be missed during harvest, guaranteeing new plants with zero effort. Any unwanted emerging plants are easily removed, never becoming a nuisance. For more info see this article. My favorite (and insanely easy) sunchoke recipe is diced and boiled in the skin, with butter and fresh rosemary. They taste like new potatoes with a hint of artichoke. Reply to coordinate pickup in Arcadia.
