Recent content by StupidBird

Cooking destroys the stinging compound. I drink nettle tea lots. It does not grow in my garden, and I am wary of planting this bane of childhood. So I buy a weed.

It's war this year, last year I lost all vine crops. Everything in the book. On the plus side, the kudzu stink bugs were fewer last year, after swarming everything the year before. Baymule, I just googled your bug and we don't have it.

If there's basil 'African Blue', I will get that and take lots of cuttings. It's very ornamental and tough. If the sweet potatoes don't slip in time, I'll have to buy those. I have enthusiastic, or delusional, plans for seed starts this year. Lots of things follow me home.

Peanut butter removes jar label glues very well, perhaps it'll help? If your window has some sort of low-e coating, has it been fogged by harsh cleaners?

Split leaf philodendron, Monstera deliciosa, has a fruit said to be quite edible. The Athens, Ga. State botanical garden had one reaching twenty feet along with fruit visible some years ago in their conservatory. Has anyone here ever tasted it?

Hi, everyone! I'm from NE Atlanta suburbs...way outside the perimeter. Dandelionchick, can you describe how you fasten the plastic sheeting to the welded wire fencing used to make your low tunnels? We have such swings in temperatures every winter I am constantly moving the plastic on and off...

Thank you for the growing tips for next year. My biggest question is why the butternut bought at the grocery lately are so awful? Watery, stringy, lacking true butternut flavor. Is this some new hybrid? I want to avoid that in my purchases this year and planting next year

Due to my losing the battle the last three years to bugs, I have shamefully resorted to purchasing butternut squash AT THE GROCERY STORE (insert shameful smilie) at outrageous prices. The last few have the taste and texture of coarsest bred jack o lantern pumpkins! What happened? I can't...

There's a version I make that I don't even know qualifies as chili. Chicken leg quarters come cheap in these 10 pound bags. After cutting off and freezing all the drumsticks, I skin and cut off the fat for chicken cracklings and rendered chicken fat. The thighs go to make a big pot of stock...

I have no idea why it is flipping all my photos

Little Miss Insomniac here, good morning all. Love the garden photos. Yesterday I brought in the sorghum seed heads from the shed. I just grew a small bit for testing and seed, the canes are very sweet. I'd love to show off photos but my brain is too scrambled to figure it out this time...

Never had a and s chili, but I do make a lot. Today too! Suggestions: Pinch of cocoa powder Pinch of cinnamon Spoonfuls of masa for thickening Lots of garlic

Jared77, I think you're great. Thank you for the smile this am! Raspberry pruning, another thing to look up...got the assorted pack and made a 50 foot row, but can't remember what they are...I wrote it down someplace. What's the worst that can happen if I don't prune anything but dead wood?

Um, sorry to break this to you, but IMHO you are a tad optimistic there with the timeline.