I have many red winter kale volunteer sprouts! I let one of the plants go to seed in the spring and nature is doing my job. I just need to keep transplanting them to good spots since they grew on the path. I can over-summer red winter and lacinasto in my shadiest bed, but trying it elsewhere causes problems. The plants stress, seed, and attract Harlequin bugs. Then the Harlequins get into my tomatoes and jalapenos in the summer. So except for that one bed, I take them out in June. Except of course, for the one I save to seed, hence the volunteers. I don't mind volunteers at all. I prefer the nero di toscana (lacinato) and DH prefers the red winter kale, so we grow both. They are beautiful too! We have also grown the curly ones, I prefer the other two. I cook them in frittatas, in kale potato soup, substituting spinach in 'espinacas con garbanzos', in colcanon, stuffed chayotes, in green pies (or empanadas). I use collards interchangeably and like those too. Collards are easier to stuff in rolls too. I have the hardest time growing spinach too, but stubborn me, I am trying again.

Looks like you have a male bullfrog. Since the ridge from his eye curls around his Tympanum that distinguishes him from a green frog. Also his Tympanum is much larger than his eye so it is a male. Male bullfrogs during mating season also acquire a rather yellowish throat coloring and do most of the calling letting other males know it's his territory. Females can call also I understand just to create competition between the males. Males will fight other males defending their teritory and maybe for a worm too. How long did it take for you to train him?

His advice is probably good for him as you would return in a year to buy another BB to replace the one that died:) Removing the fruit the first year is not so clear cut. It is best for the plant to do so as a general rule. There are a lot of variables though. Take a sweetcrisp.....since it produces only a moderate amount of flowers it would be ok to not remove the flowers. An Emerald on the other hand that produces way too many flowers it would be an almost certain death sentence to not remove some flowers at least. Now if you put the plant in perfect soil and give it perfect water and perfect care would leaving some of the fruit load hurt the plant? No.....would it slow it's growth for next year? Almost certainly yes to some degree. I do agree with him on chemical fertilizers. It is tough to use natural fertilizers with BB and still keep up the amount of growth I want. Because manures are alkaline they need to be avoided unless you are acidifying your water to counteract that alkalinity. Ammonium sulfate makes BB grow out of this world and is so cheap and easy to use.

The Pepto-Bismol pink is a bit much for me, and I have never cared for black and pink together either. But, my neighbors had the original bath from 1942 up until 3 years ago, and the tiles were small pale pink squares. Much nicer! I do like the various shades of green. And I adore those closet showers! I've been in many houses built in the 1920s-30s and never seen that. My first house, built in 1929, still had the original classic black and white tile and fixtures (including the china X shaped handles on the shower and sink) .