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Welcome, from Southeast Missouri! If you still have the gardening bug this fall, I suggest you spend the fall and winter reading up on garden basics. You will be glad you did this next spring when you know not to set tomato plants out in March, or try to grow green peas in July. Personally, I...

Wow! What a shock to have that big old tree come down! Ours was about that big, double trunked. One trunk fell to the north and one fell to the east. There are still big portions of the trunk base there, too big to get a chainsaw through. After 2 years. Some people who live here aren't...

With all the wind and damage in Iowa, I was wondering if you and yours are OK. Did you have damage?

Hi Mike Kelly from Nashville! Glad you joined! My sis & her hubby and my brother and his family all migrated to Nashville, left me here is SE Missouri. 😢. It's a great place to visit, tho. Are you into the old world type roses, or modern hybrids? We love pictures, so feel free to post.

Hey Marshall! I bet your ears were ringing a while back, when the conversation turned to you. It was all good stuff, I assure you. I hope you are doing well and managing to avoid the worst of the illnesses going around. I'm not on here as much as I used to be. I am on several forums but just...

We love to watch some of the British TV shows, but we sure have a hard time understanding what they are saying. Doc Martin wasn't too bad, but Last Tango in Halifax is really difficult. That one blond lady barely moves her mouth, so lip reading and then translating in your brain in the...

They are not forming beans at all. No babies falling off, just flowers. The Fortex right beside them are doing ok. We are going to have some cooler weather for about a week. Maybe that will make a difference. :fl

Dang, I missed all the excitement again.

I am seeing that forest fires are starting up again in the west. While we are growing fungus from all the rain, here in Swamp East Missouri. I wish whoever is in charge of the weather would get with the program.

The Fortex pole beans I planted are doing ....fair....but my one pole full of Blue Lake Pole beans are flowering like crazy, have been for a month, but not a single bean. There are about 3 actual seeds planted around the pole, and they have good looking foliage, but just not making beans. I...

Maybe @Bluejay77 can help you. He's the bean guru.

Hi Lis, seems like we are all worlds away right now. Come on in and enjoy yourself. No masks needed here.

And there is so much research now regarding gut health, maybe one day we will get the message that "you are what you eat"

I must have seen an article on them a few weeks ago. They sound icky, and I will squish them if I see them. Years ago Discover Magazine ran an article in the April issue about a worm that lived in the arctic, one whose body heat rose and enabled them to bore through the arctic ice. It was very...

@flowerbug , so then how do you get rid of the flies that are attracted to the chicken poo?

I've never seen ants attack okra before, but then you Texans have some mean ants down there. Could you sprinkle some insecticide or DE on the ground around the plants to deter the ants?

Our neighbor got too close to our bluebird house with a big farm machine. Knocked the post down, and broke the house into several pieces. It had 3 babies inside, with a few feathers but definitely not fledge size. We taped the box back together, stuck the nest inside, the birdies into the nest...

But, Bee, what if it is like the Bubonic Plague for ...say...20% of us? And another 20% get it so lightly they don't even realize they have it? Does that give the walking contagious the right to say it's no big deal and to refuse to protect the rest of us?

@Dirtmechanic , have you read the book "Secrets of the Soil"? It is full of some pretty amazing stuff that has been used for a long time. One in particular that I sort of remember was burying a cow horn filled with manure. For what purpose, I can't remember. 🙄 One has to put their sense of...

My New Yorkers grew fast, put on tons of tomatoes, ripened fast but the plants yellowed and died from the bottom up, even faster. Apparently not the right tomato for my garden. But @aftermidnight , I think of you and your green thumb often. Hoping for the best for you. ❤