Recent content by Sylvie

Hi Steve, thanks to you and your wife! Hi Monty, thank you. We think alike! This is exactly what I needed to know. I am ordering Copenhagen Market and late flat dutch today. Also I'm planting a couple red cabbages for litmus testing experiments that I learned in my recent college chemistry...

Thanks, I may give the Chinese cabbage a try, but do prefer a strong tasting cabbage because I make half the batch of rolls conventionally and the other half meatless which beg for more flavor. I am considering late flat dutch because it would give provide cabbage all winter, but am not...

I love cabbage rolls and have found that not all caggage lends itself to these. I want to order seeds but not sure which variety of cabbage to plant. Cabbage purchased in groceries seems too tight with significant tearing while trying to separate leaves. Any Hungarians out there who could...

My berries got some well placed showers and are large, fully formed and juicy. While we have the drought here, that usually results in dried up berries. Northern Ohio.

All my blackberries are sour or slightly bitter this year. This includes both the thornless and the wild berries. They were sweet the last couple years and this year they are prolific, just sour. Anyone know if there a soil amendment that corrects this? My soil is slightly acidic clay loam which...

I'm looking for leek plants(starts). The problem that I have had with several companies is that the plants went to seed in the same year that they were planted. These have been the Lancelot variety, which I suspect is offered by one grower to all the catalogs. I have noted many complaints...

Thanks to the person who (EM) suggested Arborgen and Lawyer Nurseries for quantities of bareroot seedlings! That is what I was looking for!!! :weee

Thanks for the suggestions RustyDHart. Everyone around here has predominately red maple, tulip, black locust and cherry woodlots, all second growth in this previously farmed/ clear logged area. At one time we had a number of bog iron furnaces that went out of business b/c they ran out of trees...

I'm searching for American Beech tree seedlings. I buy loads of assorted seedlings from New Hampshire's State Forest Nursery but Beech aren't offered. I like the ability to buy in lots of 10 or 25 at very affordable prices. Can anyone recommend a nursery, state or otherwise? I am in the...

Thanks for the guidelines!! I hope I don't miss my opportunity to catch them at their best. Having never tasted a pawpaw, this should be quite an experience. I'll be on critter patrol for the next few weeks, then!

After 20 plus years my pawpaws finally have 2 fruits. They are small 2" and green. How can you tell when they are ripe? They are also about 10' up and the trees are on the side of a steep wooded ravine so I don't have easy access. I have an apple piker on an extension pole that I can use to...

Thanks for your efforts. I guess I'll relegate it to a corner until I learn more. The light blue flower is very attractive so not a complete loss.

I know some Dragonhead, like moldavica, can be used for tea, but can't find any info on whether Dracocephalum argunese is edible. I was given 12 plants and would love to find a use for them, either edible or medicinal. If anyone processes it for medicinal uses, what form is best; tincture...

I am looking for a botanical pronunciation guide. My sister had a great book that she picked up at a yard sale, but since lent it out and that was the end of it. It had the older key that was easy to read. For instance, Campanula would be kam-PAN-yew-luh, instead of internet symbols we don't...

My seed potatoes sprouted everything once. I pulled it all off and planted with good potassium rich fertilizer. Had a great crop as if nothing happened. I am in zone 5 and plant as early as April 15th because that is the earliest I can work clay soil. Some here in zone 5 plant potatoes and...