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Too much heavy lifting here ... I have 5, 5-gallon buckets and the wheelbarrow to use for compost and grass sod transport to other...

I 💚 compost. Here we use three of the big black lidded plastic compost bins. I like that the bin tapers at the top and has no bottom...

I have 3 barrels to use for compost and they are too big for me to handle when full. I just realized, I do not have to fill them to the...

I want to pull it up because I also still need to find the beginning of the neighbors stinking morning glories and get them abolished. I...

Too much work AND you will leave space for weeds to come in. Leave the plants, let them go to seed, collect and dry seed for next year...

My garden just hasn't been very productive at all this year so I told my husband that next year I want to grow everything vertical. It...

Succession Planting as 2nds 3rds (4ths?) My schedule: Cucumber starts, early July following early greens Bush Beans, mid July...

A lot of vegetable plants have short life spans, it's true.

I'm considering pulling out the garden for the most part. I'm going to leave my pumpkins and squash. I will also leave the sweet potato...

I'm on the verge of ripping out most of the garden. I'm not really getting anything from it. I will leave the pumpkin and squash plants...

I harvested a few large handfuls of green beans from the vines grown in a container on my porch. Ate some right off the plants, tossed...

picked a half dozen Beaver Dam peppers and will enjoy eating a few of those with some BBQ chicken today (from the freezer). Mom asked...

https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Maps/MapViewer.aspx See the east side of Illinois DIRECTLY east of the fat western edge? That is ME...

Green Amaranth. I'll tell you what: It looks so similar to pigweed. But, it doesn't have a red root. True Leaf Market Seeds says that...

We ordered a pizza for pick up. It seemed crazy to ask for added cherry tomatoes, sweet peppers and onions. I asked DW if she would be...