Recent content by Gnome_Czech

Now that things are coming up in the cabinet bed, I'd like to post pics but I'm 100% a no-go when it comes to posting pics on here. If I can email them to someone, can you help me post? Maybe someone could walk me thru step by step?

I've got detroit and albino in my raised beds - you can tell which is which already and they are about 2" high. I hate thinning anything because I feel like it's a waste of seeds, sun and water.

I have 4 stevia in a raised bed and I bought a "Sweet Leaf" from gurneys that arrived very toasted. I let them know if was crunchy when I got it and they sent me another one. The dead one - because I never throw anything away - just gave me some teeny tine leavs so I went ahead and planted it...

Under or over? The commercial stuff they use to keep weeds out is porous so water can seep into the ground, garbage bags on top would keep the water from reaching the soil. Under the bed, it would keep the soil too wet, I would think. I would use them before you gardden to kill large areas of...

I found a nursery that will sell direct to the public, but it is way in the middle of the hills and quite a drive - WORTH IT!!! We left with (2) types of cherries, blood orange, fig, nectarine, apple, artichoke, rhubarb, veggies, herbs, etc. I will need to plant the cherries in the front...

Seeds for today: Lemon basil, purple broccoli, scarlet and aztec runer beans, spaghetti squash, pyretherum, bergomont, tomatillo. My romanesco cauliflower are sprouting and so are my german chamomile!!!!

Yesterday's seeds: peas, green beans, 3 different kinds of egg plant, 2 different kinds of beets. Today I transplanted 3 celery and put a pear in the ground. it had been in a bucket waiting so patiently.

bees are more than welcome here, but with an acre, I'm sure they will be all over, anyway!

I guess I should have added that I just pulled all the bermuda that was growing in there....the rubber mulch is a few years old so with rain and wind there is some soil in there. I have a giant patch of purple daisies that I am constantly puling seedlings out of the walkway from. Then there is...

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I like to use the hershey squeeze bottle with splenda and the coffee flavors with splenda, especially caramel, so I can make my own machiatto

They can sometimes be overwhelming and in such numbers you might want winter to kill them! LOL! I have 1 black raspberry that sends up so many that I have given up on trying to tame or rid myself. They are very easy to relocate, and you may want to get a nice big pot on wheels that you can...

I want to plant creeping thyme in the walkway from my porch down to the drive. I have grey flat stones for stepping and I have the rubber mulch in between. Underneath I not only have the weed barrier, but wire mesh to keep the gophers from coming up in the middle. I want to sprinkle creeping...

Still looking into this so I searched some websites and the info they have on there is incorrect to say the least. One site said the decollate snails don't climb walls or trees like brown snails do - um this is WRONG!!! It also said they are supposed to take care of the eggs and small & medium...

I just planted chammomil and my son thought I was sprinkling ash on the soil. Those are super tiny too! Why do herb seeds have to be so tiny?!?!