Recent content by 2ndtimearound

My, my this thread has gotten long! :ep Nothing spectacular, but I canned about 6 quarts of green beans last night. Had green, purple and wax bush beans, freshly picked from my garden. I've picked two zucchini's, need to go buy sugar and then I'll make bread with them. :drool

That is wonderful news! You are so lucky - every year my Dad's grapevines produce and then as soon as they are ripe, something eats them - coons? I really glad you got a nice harvest!

Like so many others, I have an explosive oregano patch I gave a good haircut about a month ago and put all of it into my dehydrator. Then I just used an old oregano shaker and pulled all the leaves off the stalks and put them in there. They taste great, and I still have lots and lots in the...

I'm in the same boat - planted two or three mounds of zucchini, but my sister and I have a plan - make as many zucchini bread loaves as possible, wrap them in foil and then, at Christmas time, take them out and gift wrap them and give them all away!! :cool: Aha! :lau And, I must say, it is MUCH...

Well, my plants survived the "frost" that turned out to be very light where I am, thank goodness! Only one of my asters plants seemed to have had any effect. That particular plant was very late starting to poke up through the ground. It is one of two that I planted last fall and the other one is...

This year, I made myself promise to learn more names of weeds and try to REMEMBER them! I've never heard of leafcup either, but I do have a wooded area and now, here I have learned that there's a whole other class of weeds/plants that are "woodland" plants! :th Looks like I really need to...

I know, it's awful, and I'm sorry for your loss. Every year, we have grapes on the arbor until they are "just right" ripe and then in one night Wham! they all get wiped out by the masked bandits. :he It's very frustrating. I think this year, I'm doing MUCH more trapping, maybe with a...

Wow that fence thing sounds like something you've been through before hoodat! I understand what you mean, though. At the last place we lived at the bumbles were just downright onery. :somad They would swoop you and buzz you and just had a nasty disposition all around. ( whisper: I suspect...

All of those sound great, except I haven't try verbena yet, but my very favorite is Sage tea. My mom and grandma introduced it to us and my sisters and I love it. :drool It is supposed to be a mild diuretic though, so be aware! Lovely flavor and it doens't make you think of dressing at all, I...

Thanks for the sage advice hoodat, (no pun intended) I will stick to the starter soil. I used to dig up soil from the yard, cook it in the oven, add some manure or peat and some vermiculite to lighten it and use that for potting soil. But since I've been using starter soil, I sure get better...

I'm just getting started in this particular garden, and mind you, it is a Butterfly garden, but so far I have: Oregano Dill Garlic Chives Thyme Fennel Garlic Echinacea Sweet Basil Our season hasn't even gotten going yet (May 15th is no-more-frost date), and I plan to add: Sage Lavender...

:welcome I migrated from BYC also, so I know you're going to enjoy it here! The potato idea sounds awesome, but no, I never heard of it before. I'm going to check around my fellow gardeners here and see if anyone else has. I'll post back if I hear any info. I have a stack of tires handy and...

Sorry Steve, It's not quite that bad here in Nebraska. It just broke 80 for the first time yesterday, today it's going to be 68 degrees and tomorrow 70, but this morning at 5 am it was 42 and like I said, it's supposed to get down to 38 tonight or tomorrow night, the weathermen are having a...

Boy you said it all! The compost is great for amending the CLAY dirt in both of the big veggie gardens. But for staring seedlings inside, the starter mix or at least top soil works for me! I'm about to invest in more containers of assorted sizes, cause my milkweed is telling me it needs more...

Ok the spring nursery, known as our yard, is well underway. Things are very different this year - so far, we have 2 orphaned baby black squirrels in a cage and FIVE orphaned baby possums!! We have found seven baby possums so far, but one was already dead and one other one died. It seems like...