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...
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?
I built some 4' X 4' raised beds, went to my local garden center and got a really good soil mix with: gin trash, top soil, sand, humus and composted manure. We have received a TON of rain so far this year and the soil I got was very clumpy. Anybody have any good ideas of how to get some fine...
Got my raised bed's built and dirt in them. Each one is 4' X 4' and gives me an additional 32 square feet that I didn't have before. My original garden is 8' X 15' and now I have a total of 150 square feet!! I grow tomato's, green beans, squash, okra, peppers and cantelopes in my garden...it...
Got some seeds today to make my wife a little indoor herb garden that we can use as a "growing spice rack". I got basil, terragon, rosmary, parsley. Going to put them in individual pots and place them in the kitchen window and use a good potting mix that I use to start seeds with. Anything...
Can I use just brown leaves for planting potatoes and no soil? I just read up on a past thread that talked about making wire potatoe cages and some people only use hay/straw. I have a ton of leaves that I picked up in my neighborhood and could use those.
Anybody know anything about this type corn? I picked up a 1/4 lb at the feed store the other day cause I didn't feel like paying $4.50 for G-90. I hear it is a dent corn, my main question is, can I make corn meal with it?
I started indoors (6) of each last week: Tomato (Marglobe), Tomato (Beefsteak), cauliflower, brocolii, bell pepper and lettuce. I live in zone 8a, north Louisiana. What is the best time to start each type indoors?