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I just realized we don't have this thread here, the way we do in the other forums - that's not good! :) Post your photos here so we can see who we're chatting with! I'll start with mine - hubby and I a few years ago down in Tennessee:

I call mine "Bit of Earth". From my favorite book :bouquet

Injunjoe, you will appreciate The Cloud Appreciation Society. Check out their gallery The photos there are amazing - as are yours!

Lovely and seasonal, a definite Pic-of-the-Week!!!

I'm just a bit south of you, but we get pretty much the same types of winter. That soft growth isn't going to winter well, but given our variable seasons here, who knows how long we've got to harden it off? If we have a long autumn you may be ok. If you've planted them in the ground, make...

Just for the antiquity, I'd pay that price. Of course I'd have to buy out my neighbors, flatten their houses and combine the land with mine, that'd give me about three acres - plenty of room for it then! Nah, only kidding, I'd miss my neighbors!

Both tarragon and thyme are hardy here, so they're definitely hardy in NC. If you want to bring it in to grow for cooking, you can try, but I don't think either one of these do well indoors. I've picked thyme in mid-winter, it grows when it gets warm enough. Can't speak to whether or not...

I've found either borage likes your garden or it doesn't, there's no middle ground! I planted it for several years before it took hold.

The flowers are lovely in a salad, an edible, with a mild cucumber flavor. You can put the young leaves in salad, but I don't know about when they get big, they're kinda raspy!

Borage can really be a rangey plant, I love it, but it's got to be kept under control. The seedlings are so easy to pull I don't consider it a pest, however. I've actually got a bunch of seedlings out there that sprouted after being dropped this season! So I'll have a nice fall crop of borage...

Well, my point is I am not on the left, living in a yurt, eating granola - I'm a 53 year old well-read, hardcore conservative who realizes what's going on isn't business, but greed and domination. More and more are coming to realize the business climate is rotten to the core in this country...

Dave, Monsanto can and will sue you for what grows in your gardens, or in your fields. Have you ever read the Percy Schmeiser saga? It's enlightening to say the least. I see that you work for a major pharmaceutical company - doesn't make you bad, but it definitely will make you look at these...

Very nice, I wish mine looked that good (I hate the veggie garden this time of year, it's all burnt to a crisp out there!!)

Then they're smart chickens - who wants to be around yellowjackets? Honeybees are gold and brown, and fuzzy - and chickens don't mind them at all ;)

Rob, they yank easy. Really, they will only take over if you let every single one remain! :gig

I've got all kinds of different sunflowers coming up all over my yard, every other year or so I plant different seeds that I buy to beef up the gene pool. I get huge tall ones with large heads, smaller ones with even larger heads, multistemmed ones, etc. Once you get them going in your hard...

No problem keeping bees near chickens, our hives are right outside the coop door, and the chickens pay them no mind at all. The hive entrances are 18" above the ground, they fly out right over the birds. Go ahead and move them close together!

That is gorgeous, Catalina, what a lovely garden totem! :rainbow-sun

Wifezilla, keep racking it every few months and let it mellow, it'll be much nicer in a year or so. You have to get it off the yuck at the bottom occasionally, according to the seminar we heard about mead-making we heard up at the Common Ground Fair last year.

Rob, all sunflower seeds are edible for us, the BOSS are small, though, and not worth it unless you're a bird :). They are fully ripe when they are easily removed, run your finger over them and they'll pop right out. I always give them the full head, they have a blast with them.