Recent content by pebbles

Thanks Steve, I was sort of thinking along those same lines. Thanks for helping me make up my mind :- )

Hope you all can help. Just receivedsome Marion Berry vines. I am in NW Arizona. High nintie degrees in summers high twenties in winter. Any advise as to where to plant. Full sun? or because of our heat should I find a shadier location? I usually plant in a mix of mulches and planting...

Last year I planted in early February in my 4" X 8" raised beds. About 6 weeks later, with nice sized sprouts we had a week of nights in the low teens, hi 20's. I covered my raised bed with an old sliding glass door slanting it at one end so I had about three feet on the high end. I then...

I have raised beds and 4 horses. Any moldy alfalfa hay is used in the walk ways between the beds and I use the the hay in the beds also. As soon as seeds sprout on if I am planting seedlings I completely cover every square inch of the bed with 4"-5" of alfalfa, except for a smal area around...

I don't like gloves either. I have tried to use them but I can't plant, dig and enjoy my plants with them on.

Three years ago, with the way things looked like they were going-economically, nationally, etc...I thought I better get chickens and learn how to grow food. I bought Holly Deyo's e-book "Garden Gold" and the rest is history. I am in NW Arizona so I figured raised beds were the best way to go...

Thanks Wife!

This is my first time for sweet potatoes also. I have read several places that after you dig them up you are suppose to store them at 95 degrees for a week. Is this true? If it is true I figure I'll just treat the sweet potatoes the same way I treated my baby chicks in a brooder. Had to keep...

Wow, those look great. How long from planting until harvest?

I have an excaliber dehydrator-5 tray with a timer...love the timer. Excalibers are not cheap but I really love mine. I dry bananas, tomatoes, peppers, fruits. If your in to prepping, easy to dehydrate frozen hash brnwpotatoes, frozen vegies. I love dehydrating and, if you do it right, the...

With everyones help here I finally determined that I had a really bad aphid problem on my squash. All my squash plants, that are usually my pride and joy when all else fails, wilted, dried up and never produced really great this year. I pulled them all and replanted with more squash two weeks...

Yesterday I was cursing these little guys...today I am thrilled to have these wonderful little guys in my garden. What a difference aday makes :D

I feel SOOOOO much better!!!! Thanks for the reassurance.

COOL.... Thank you VFEM. You are in my prayers for improving health also.

I am not very good at taking close up pics. I have search the web but cannot find out what kind of bug this is. It is about 1/4 inch long black with two horizontal orange stripes. When it moves it reminds be of a tram made up of two cars sort of long and jointed in the middle. They are all...