Recent content by Kismet

I have had good luck with celery (unless the groundhogs invade). There is always more than I can eat fresh, so I dry a lot and use it all year in soups and stews. I also put up a lot of soup in my pressure canner and use it when I make vegetable soup and chicken stock. Excuse my ignorance, but...

They look delicious! But, how can you ever get them out of the ground? Our ground is solidly frozen and even if we didn't have three feet of snow, I wouldn't be able to pull them up.

Six days a go I started celery inside (it's 4 degrees out with 3 feet of snow). The package said 14 to 21 days for germination. I put the two flats, in a plastic bag, on the top warming shelf of my wood stove where they stay about 77 degrees. Yesterday, I peeked and I have tiny seedlings all...

I've read this whole thread and another one. After all the much appreciated input, I have decided to try Parks's Whopper Improved Hybrid, Defiant Hybrid, and Mountain Merit Hybrid, plus a paste and cherry. Last year (besides groundhogs taking a bite out of each partially ripened tomato), I had...

I have had a terrible problem with groundhogs that this past summer became a major infestation - a family or two. They ate all my cole plants, cilantro, carrot and beet tops, kale, swiss chard, sunflowers, nasturtiums, finally they started on the celery and tomatoes. I have tried sulfur bombs...