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Probably. I actually got it as a gift from my in-laws a couple years ago. Probably they got it at a farm-garden store or Wal-Mart. I haven't actually used it yet--just not the way I garden and so I keep forgetting :rolleyes:, but I've heard it works great. I can see it being especially nice for...

It is fun how organic and "green" gardening methods (at least on a home scale) are nearly always free. Just a lot more sweat labor :)

Maybe I can jump in and answer those :) Corn-based products like Preen--actually, I think it is just pure corn gluten and organic--prevent other weeds from germinating. So, they need to be applied once the desirable plant is up out of the ground but before all the rest are, too. The...

Hah! Setter4 beat me to it :) That's what I casually consider also when plotting out my vegetables gardens each year.

Great! Now I can't wait to get the seeds :) My sister and a friend make soap and have done soaps encasing loofa. It would be neat to supply them with the loofa!

I know commercial fertilizers use petroleum products, so I wonder if garden ones do, too? Plus, with corn prices having been up pretty high and Preen being a corn product, I guess it is to be expected :( That, and price with demand. It will be interesting to see if garden seeds and other...

That's one of the cool things about growing your own veggies--no need to peel, assuming you are not spraying chemicals or irradiating your food :)

My potatoes are sprouting! That's about as good as it's going to get here for a couple weeks... Then, I will start all my seedlings inside once I'm back from vacation.

Just your typical supermarket muskmelon size. It's not something I would TRY to do, but it happened to work out that summer :) I bet, though, some of the smaller melons, like the charentais some of us have been talking about, would for sure do fine.

In my experience, carrots take forever to sprout, or at least to break the soil. Just when I've almost given up and thought about planting something else there instead, they will pop out. Hang in there :)

We had (unintentionally) cantaloupe climb our pasture fence one year. Some of the best fruit we ever had!

Oh, oh! I want loofas, too! Setter4--will you do side deals? :lol: I will take the yard-long cukes and offer: purple kohlrabi or red beets or Michilli cabbage

Welcome, Tallman! I have finally learned how to grow carrots. Now that I don't even bother in the harder soiled areas, they are doing great. I really loved my Dragon carrots from Seed Saver's Exchange. Great germination, growth, flavor and storage. They are purple outside, orange inside. Didn't...

The snow melted unrelentingly for 3 days and exposed some overwintered spinach! Gotta love that Bloomsdale Longstanding!

My 9 year old picked it out for his garden this year :)

I don't spray, so I don't know. I would think, though, that the chemical packaging would have some type of spray schedule for it. Like, "at time of bloom and every 3 weeks after..." Hope you can find an answer :)

Snorting with laughter! Isn't that the fun of gardening? That, plus the fact that there are about a bazillion variables, so who on earth knows why it worked out great last year but it won't this year?!? I'm going to try again and stay right on top of the watering. Interesting about the rooting...

I just liked the simplicity of it. I offer something. You take it. You offer something else. Somebody else takes it. And so on...

Found Imperial in Johnny's. Thanks!

2008 was my first year growing them, Beauregards in zone 4. They were very easy, but I have to say my yield was not extravagant. I think part of it was that we left immediately after planting for 5 days of camping during a heat wave. They really could have used some babying. They appeared to be...