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vfem, You must have a lot of raspberry canes to make that many jars of jam, Yum. We have a small patch. I eat a few fresh but mostly just freeze them whole for the winter months. DH loves them on ice cream and I like Raspberry Oatmeal Muffins in winter. We brought a few blackberry canes from...

Have a soil test done (County Extension office or a Private soil testing lab) and then amend your soil according to their recommendations.

Can you check your plants at night with a flashlight? Might also be nocturnal insects like slugs or pillbugs. I have lost all of my squash seedlings of one variety, while another variety on the other side of the garden path thrives! I finally started investigating late at night and up close...

Here's a good article on the life cycle of SVB's. Good pics of the hawk moth as well as the larva. Thank goodness that they only produce one generation per year otherwise imagine what kind of damage they could do :( The university should update the treatment options though to include organic...

Stubborn, I wish we lived closer cuz I have a male Holly that is thriving and can't keep a female alive. :( But I too had difficulty with the male in the beginning. I planted it in a treeline to fill in a bare spot. It must have had too much shade from the large ash trees and maples, so when...

SuperChemical Girl, Here's a few varieties that would suit the Maine season. :) The French heirloom Marmande is a heavy producer of 6-ounce, red, slightly flattened fruits with excellent flavour. 67 Days to maturity. I've grown these in years gone by and they are a lovely tomato. Siletz does...

Carol, I can give suggestions but unless you are growing plants from seed, some might be difficult to find in other areas. Do you want determinate sized plants? Ones that don't get too large and fit in a standard tomato cage? Or are you able to plant indeterminate varieties that could grow as...

I'm having a terrible year with predators in the garden. The slugs, snails, pillbugs, wild birds and squirrels have destroyed several pepper plants, probably 6 tomato seedlings, 2 plantings of pumpkins (total 12 plants), all of my lettuce and spinach and eaten most of my strawberries. The only...

Adorable~! Thanks for posting about your craft.

And I thought I was the only Basil Lover/Pesto Unlover out there. Nice to hear there is another like me, Lesa. Last year though, I did freeze some chopped basil mixed in oil in ice cube trays to use as flavouring when sauteeing. I only used two or three of them. Prolly rancid by now. Kudos to...

Sooooo Precious! :cool: And no, eggs are fluffy (unless stirred with a whisk), but I think they are beautiful. I used to love the slight variations in colour between different hens of the same breed. Got to know who laid what egg. It's an addictive hobby that's for sure. ;)

When I asked if they were from your own flock (which I did edit out after I realized that they were), I was thinking in terms of the heat in your area this time of year and stress on the flock prior to hatching. I always gave water soluble vitamins to my hens for two weeks or so prior to...

We cleaned all of our own birds, but most of the people I knew when we had a farm just cut the breast meat out of a duck and discarded the rest. Cleaning waterfowl is much more labour intensive that cleaning a chicken. I know $5 a piece sounds like a lot to you, but to me, it sounds like a good...

So sorry. Unfortunately, medicated feed is a preventative measure, it is not strong enough to treat outbreaks of any kind. A good cleaning and disinfecting of your incubator would be a good start.

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