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Oh, thank you, Steve, it's good to be home :rainbow-sun

Spring Beauties, or Claytonia virginica. I love them!

I've always marveled at how my mind works - or doesn't. I've been feeling under siege for quite awhile now. Since Lyme disease, and economic woes, weakened joints, generally feeling my age, I've been staying away from this forum, which is seriously my favorite garden home and forum on the...

Yes, garlic is hardy. For the most part, if you plant garlic now, you'll get a harvest, but it will be small. Best to plant garlic in October, like a fall planted bulb. Plant individual cloves about two inches deep in nicely enriched soil (I like to use Bulbtone, a bulb fertilizer from...

I let dill come up where it wants, and remove the plants I don't want. There's no specific place for it. There's some in the herb garden, a few creep into the perennial border, and they're coming up all over the vegetable garden - if I don't like where they are, they get removed :)

Resurrecting the old post on Cardoon - mine has survived yet another New England winter. It's strongly growing out there, I'm sure our wonderful snow cover helped it this past season. This year I'm planning on harvesting some come August/September.

The biggest problem for me would be irrigation, Steve, we don't live up there, and we're on a shallow well - how much rain would I have to hope for to avoid having to irrigate? I do have neighbors who could keep an eye on a sprinkler on a timer.....

Mine are sold too fast to get old, I don't grade them, but I do sort them in the cartons by size, the jumbo or extra large eggs are on the left, down through the mediums on the right. I tell my customers to use the eggs near the center right for baking, if they want large eggs. No one has...

Do you eat your wheat, Steve? There were two great articles in the Maine Organic Farmer & Gardener's newspapers, all about growing and harvesting wheat. I wish I had more room....wait a minute, I do[i/] up in Maine, I wonder if I could grow it up there (or is it deer food??) Anyhoo, here are...

This was answered in the Trees section. Please don't crosspost.

The pink one is a zinnia, the yellow one is an evening primrose, gold are coreopsis.

Ha! No, it isn't a bad thing, they're easy enough to rip out if you don't want them next season.

They're weeds in my garden, I leave a few, but pull the rest. Once you have them you'll always have them, you don't have to overwinter them!!

I've just harvested the garlic, I grew German Extra Hardy (hard-necked), and two different soft-necked varieties, Kettle River and Inchelium Red. They're all drying now in the garage on a grate. The onions are falling over now, so I'll be pulling them soon.

They bloom! I know you're not supposed to let them, but I'm not eating them (yet), and I couldn't resist it. I've read the bees love them, and the birds love the seeds, so I can't wait. They're so big. It's been very dry here, and they're not too happy, but they're still almost as tall as...

Volcanoes erupt, that's the mother building new earth. Iceland is a dream destination for me, I'd love to see that happening. I hope it doesn't ruin your summer, Hattie, but I was excited when I read about the eruption.

They did fine over the winter, now they just have to survive those chooks! I need to invest in fencing, in a big way. As for the cardoon, I guess that end of that bed will be devoted to it from now on - I wonder if I can keep it going? What I did was put about 18" of salt marsh hay all around...

I hope it's worth the effort - with all the multiflora roses around here I'd want to see the blooms before I went to the trouble of moving it - just saying, I'd hate to move one of those weedy roses!

10 to 12' tall?? :ep Oh, boy, I can't imagine it getting that big around here, however, the early start it's getting just might do it!

My cardoon made it over the winter! :weee There are four growth points poking up through the soil! I'm giving it lots of room this year, hopefully I'll be able to harvest it this summer!