Greetings, fellow gardeners! I haven't been on this forum in a while and am glad to be back. :)
I've been growing tomatoes pretty much my entire adult life (I'm 54). This year, even though I am using the same brand of soil (raised beds), same fertilizer I have always used, etc., all of my...
Hi, everyone! I have not been on the forum in quite a while, but I am "getting my garden on" lately, too. I have carrots, beets, bush beans, sweet peas and snow peas and blackeye peas, romanesco cauliflower, early sweet corn, radishes, strawberries, grapes, and golden raspberries in the...
FYI, a little something I learned last year from a pumpkin expert (I work seasonally at a local pumpkin patch) is that the "warty" pumpkins shown on the first page of this thread are known as "galeaux d'eysines". The ones with the external warts such as that variety are best for making pies, as...
I have been wanting to scatter wildflower seeds over our leach fields. I think it'll make it look pretty. That area is in a little meadow area between a couple of trees and gets a lot of sunlight, and I think a patch of wildflowers would bring color and brightness to that side of the property...
Well, I had a bare root daylily that I forgot about & it sat in a shed, unwatered, untouched for 2 full years. This year, I put it in a pot of soil and watered it & it now has 4 beautiful, lush green fans. I figure if a daylily can survive and still grow, perhaps I can get the bulbs also to...
Hi, Bulb Experts! This is my first time dealing with bulbs, so please bear with me.
I found a bag of assorted hyacinth bulbs in the storage unit. I know I bought them in 2013 with the intention to plant them last fall. They are not dried up and appear pretty much the same as they did when I...
We get snow here maybe 4-5 times per winter. First one usually comes between Thanksgiving and the 2nd week of December.... but then again, the last few years, nothing about the weather has happened as it "usually" does. :(
The raised beds were built last fall/winter. They are made of local stone, built as walls and filled in with concrete. They're really quite lovely. They were filled with soil in April, and I was not allowed to plant until the very last week of April and was not given any fertilizer until...
Bob, you actually got it backwards regarding the warfarin/Coumadin thing. Coumadin is the trade name... warfarin is the generic name. I am a retired medical language specialist and spent 30 years as a medical documentation transcriptionist and editor. One can describe how a chemical is made...
There is a trap there, but they are kind of tight on the budget & bought one lousy trap for an infestation of 20+ squirrels. We have yet to catch even so much as a single critter in that trap. The onions and basil have worked better than the stinkin' trap. Last time I was out there, only saw...