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Okay I got a setvia plant this last summer but got no info with it. So here is my question are they perennial? I am in zone 5 and thought that having a sweetener plant to offset all the lugar we use would be nice.

Hi I am looking for the feet off of claw foot tubs for in my garden. Just the feet not the whole tub! Will pay 50 cents to $1 per foot depending on what for shape they are in. They do not have to be the same style or anything just just so they are the heavy cast. Can also be painted, really it...

It is that time of year again and I just wanted to let everyone know that I am taking orders for Christmas To please order early because I am stopping sales early in the season do to having a baby due in February. Please remember to check out my website and that any pet, chicken or other animal...

I was just wondering if anyone knew how fast they grew. I got some this summer from the local ag. They are tiny little whips about 1 foot tall and I was wondering how long it would take the to get 2-3 foot so hubby quits cutting them all off with the weed whacker.

okay so I use the black corrugated pipe for my bigger trees but what should I use for smaller tree whips? Is there something I could make for them? I see the white tree guards everywhere on trees planted for field erosion but have no idea why they are used for the smaller trees and how they...

can anyone recommend some where I can buy bulk tree whips (native wildlife food trees and hardwoods ) from to replant a timbered area. I have spent hours on line can not find anywhere feasible.

okay how do I start an asparagus patch? should it be by seed or little expensive plants? should I add anything to the soil where I want to grow it, composted manure, sand ect.?

My orchard, yard, garden area, pretty much our entire cleared lot was until last spring forest. Now all the stumps that I am unable to remove are covered in sprouts. And not just a few they look like darn shrubs. I have tried cutting them off, spraying them with round up and nothing I try seems...

okay I just got 4 horseradish plants in half gallon pots at an Amish sale last week. My question is shade, some shade, no shade? Even though I can remember it on my pop's farm, my husband's pop's farm, even at my mom and dad's growing up. The horseradish is no longer at any of these places and...

okay I am looking for some hedge roses, preferably fast growing, a lot of flowers and a nice strong scent. Any suggestions? I am in zone 5

okay so I cleaned some of the squash my mil gave us and fixed then for supper. I wanted to save some of the seeds for planting next year. I washed them to get most of the guts off then and dried them on newspaper on paper plates on the stove top as I baked the squash in the oven. So the stove...

HI guys for years I painted ornaments professionally until the passed two when my father fell ill then passed away. I have decided to once again start painting. So I thought I would start advertising my services here. I will paint ANY pet, house (great first home owners presents), vehicle...

Well I have shot three ground hogs in 2 days at the new farm. I have some apple trees still in their burlap and the BIG one keeps knocking them over and eating the leaves and chewing through the burlap and chewing on the root balls. I have been trying to get him for weeks while we are working...

okay so we had to cut back my mom's drive way which also happens to now be the end of lane wide enough to get our new 16 ft wide house trailer in. In the process all of the wild fox glove grapes that I can remember eating on my walk home from the buss stop as a kid got cut So a gather all the...

okay so I am moving a stone wall to make room for our drive way. And in the process using it to build a new stone wall lining the side of the drive way. What I would like to do is build a raised bed into the wall it would be a 10x10 interior space 2-3 foot deep. Filled with a mix of top soil and...

okay so I was just watching Cultivating Life on our local pbs and they are doing an entire show on mushrooms. I never realized there was so many kinds of mushrooms you can grow at home. It got me wondering if anyone here grows mushrooms and what kinds they grow.

okay so here is the thing, I am in zone 5 in NEPA and here is my problem. Where our new homestead ( the house portion) is going is a recently clear cut timbered 2 acres or so. I want to make the yard and area surrounding my chicken coop fit in with the rest of the property which is still for...

I am so excited that I just have to share. We just got home from buying more fruit trees for the new farm. :ya Okay here is what we got.... 2 Elberta peaches 2 Red Haven peaches 2 Dwarf Mt. Royal Plums 2 Winesap Apples 2 McIntosh Apples 1 Joanthan (? spelling) Apple 1 Melrose Apple and we got...

okay you guys convinced me, so I got a empty coffee can off my gram and bought a can of worms. So tonight I put it all together with newspaper bedding. I am so excited to see how they do. I plan if they do well and multiply then I will make a bigger home for them and then keep a few on the...

okay what veggies have you had success with growing on a trellis? I am sure that you can easily grow cucs on a trellis as well as beans and peas. But what other veggies can you save space by growing them on a trellis? How about acorn squash? Please let me know what you have found works and what...