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We are selling our home and need some fast growing and hardy summer time flowers quick! We are headed to Lowe's in a bit to pick up some stuff for the house to include your recommendation of flowers...thanks.

Found an idea on line about how to grow potatoes in only leaves in a round container. I had some old 2X4 welded wire fencing and formed containers 36" deep by 32" around. Planted the potatoes in about 6" of soil and waited till they leaved out a nice amount and then began to cover all but a...

may go with some more squash and beans and a little okra...my squash didn't do so well and my okra is doing great. Thanks!

My beans are done and I have two 4X4 raised beds to plant something in this smoldering 8a heat...what will do well?

Thanks!

What is bolt?

Had my first swiss chard last night! I must say that it was very good and tasted way better than I thought it would.

Thanks everyone!

Grew some swiss chard for the first time, when do I know it is ready to harvest? What is the tastiest way to prepare it?

I have poop boards in my coop so I can collect pure manure and help with clean up. I scrape the poop boards about every three days and get a couple pounds of dry light weight manure. I have read that to apply manure 90 days prior to harvesting any abouve ground crop and 120 before any root...

Anybody use Cleavers or Sticky Willy? My daughter and I were playing in the yard today and she picked up some and I showed her how it sticks to your shirt...well I went to look it up and turns out it is edible and has many medicinal purposes...my main questions is how to dry it for use as a tea?

Will do. I have three D and 5 I's

Cool! I have pruned them each week to keep stems from going all over the place in the past and really can't tell any difference in the yeilds

Do you continue to prune all of your suckers off your tomato plants for the life of the plant?

If I plant straight neck and acorn or butternut squash side by side in seperate rows will they cross pollinate?

I planted all 8 of my tomato's in the garden yesterday evening...although the skeeter's tried to tote me off I was able to get it done.

I might check it out.

If only you could figure a way to have heat in the soil, you coul have tomato's year round!

so with the plastic on the raised bed you can extend your growing season right?

It may have a little clay in it, but not much...the clods are really just dried organic matter feels almost like a dried up clod of peat...very light and almost paper mache tough