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I made squash patties last night to go along with a grape tomatoe and basil salad and some lovely wild caught salmon. We also had oven roasted potatoes and carrots from the CSA. Squash Pattie recipe 2 cups grated summer squash (any kind zucchini or yellow or pattypan) 1/4 cup chopped onion...

Hi, Do you have any of the Rodale organic gardening books? Like the encyclopedia and others. They probably have them at your local library. They will have lots more advice than I can give, but I use lots of fish emulsion, bone meal and lots of leaves piled on as mulch. I pick up grass...

Tomatoes can have white spots that are just part of the stem. They would turn into roots if they touch the ground or were covered in soil or mulch.

I don't like to let them get very big. They are much better to me small and crunchy.

I grew up near Alexandria, LA and my dad always planted potatoes on Valentines Day. You could probably do it at the beginning of February. He never planted them in the fall, but I would try it.

Well, I had more of the green beans today, cooked with onions and new potatoes the way my mama used to. They were especially yummy. I picked my first ripe grape tomatoes and just ate them in the garden. Does anyone here know the book First Tomato by Rosemary Wells? It is one of my favorites.

I'm not sure what is going on there. But Ithought I would bump you back to the top so maybe someone else would see it. Dothey look mildewed or brown or rotted?

I am interested in growing these also. Do they need full sun? Can they take a little shade? Are they long-lived?

Tonight, we had our first green beans sauteed with garlic. They were yummy. I really like getting stuff straight out of the garden and cooking it. I've got a few Juliet grape tomatoes that will be ripe in a couple of days. My big tomatoes are coming on strong but no sign of ripeness yet.

Here's one side of the hay bale garden planted with green bean seeds and lightly mulched with leaves. My helper and I got that done yesterday. I have a great new helper. He's a kid that lives a few blocks away. He is going into the 7th grade next year and is really interested in gardening...

It's the seed pod. Save them and plant them to see what you get. Do you lots of different colored ones or all the same?

I have not been happy with the organic choice soil. I have used the potting soil in my pots this year and my plants look awful. I have started supplementing with terracycle worm poop but that does not seem to be helping much. I got some of the regular organic choice garden soil to put on my...

This is the first time I've done this so I don't have a lot of experience but my plan is to put green beans in one half and squash and bush cucumbers in the other side. I had a 12 x 4 frame built for a raised bed which I had not gotten filled. I figured this was a good way to fill it up. As...

Thank you very much. You are always a great help, here and on BYC. Carol

I have attempted to make this my avatar. I uploaded it successfully to the website but cannot get it to become my avatar. When I tried to do it directly from my computer picture files it said it was too big so I uploaded it and resized it and now it will not let me make it my avatar. Can...

Here are my chicken helpers. We let them out in the evening to dig for bugs and eat up the strawberry leaves and dig around the compost piles.

Here is a picture of my hay bale bed so far. That is soaker hose spread all over it to keep it damp. It has rained so much lately we haven't really needed it. I wanted to get it planted this weekend but it may have to wait if it keeps raining. My English peas have just about played out but...

I'm near you in Georgia and I always have cold season gardens. Spinach, lettuce and all the different kinds of greens last through the winter. They slow down some when it gets really cold but start right back up in the spring. I keep mine mulched pretty heavily with leaves. I think it was in...

Get yourself some rooting hormone and dust the cut area with this. Then put the cut pieces in sand or vermiculite and keep it damp until roots form. Once you get a good set of roots put it in a pot with potting soil, to let it get bigger or put it out in the yard where you want it. The...

You really don't have to do anything for the chicken poo and shavings to compost. Just give them a little space. You can buy little fence looking compost pile containers, and just dump your stuff in and let it sit. We only turn ours once a year and always have a nice pile of compost at the...