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Baymule! I asked which ones tasted best? You showed me a bunch of stuff that pawpaw grew. Which ones do you grow? Why? I was little when I was eating those and don't remember which ones did what. I do remember I liked the hamhocks floating in the pot and playing with the big pig bones...

Thank you very much! I appreciate you telling me that Thistlebloom. It will be an interesting year. I am enjoying learning a new subject. New solutions. And a lazier approach. Give a hard job to a lazy person and they will find an easier way to do it. Learning a bit through reading...

Peas - we eat a lot of black eyed peas and cornbread. I know I can just plant the grocery store ones, but is it better to get seed peas? For those that know, what is the taste difference between black eyed peas, purple hull peas, cow peas and anything close? What tastes best and why...

I like it! I started a thread over in the gardening section. Yes, cardboard down and the grass is fighting. I scrape back the mulch and hand pull the shoots coming up and cover. Been doing a lot of research on you tube with back to Eden method, food forests, organic, no till gardening and...

We started a discussion in Fruit trees, so I'm encouraged to ask for input on the garden. I need help. Mostly mental, but financial and physical would be appreciated too! :) Got a different job and the kids in college so I have more time to get in trouble. As a good start, I ordered 25...

I've got a day job so I'm not really into maintenance. Spraying trees sounds like maintenance. I don't mind sharing with the birds, squirrels and ground parrots. This food forest/garden type goal. Not really sure I understand that, but intensive gardening sounds like work. I'm a little bit...

Yep, black gumbo mud. Technically, I'm in Baytown, but closer to Mont Belvieu/Anhuac. And we have an HOA that says no livestock. So we've got 18 "pet Asian ground parrots". I call them Asian ground parrots, but they look, sound, act and smell very similar to chickens. <wink, wink, nudge...

Have 2 black fig trees on the porch at 1 foot tall. Started them from cuttings and daughter has taken charge of those. I'm told that they are too small and have to be left in the pots a while more. Drainage - after a good rain, the puddles will stay for 3 days. I've about got the property...

I'm losing oak trees due to root fungus. Decided to plant some type of fruit trees and reading all kinds of horror stories about expensive trees shriveling and dying. Need suggestions please. I live in the coastal plain, so think heavy clay. Usually moist to sopping wet, but when it dries...

I used a bread machine for a while and then got a kitchenaid. Get a kitchenaid mixer for the dough hook, if nothing else. Gave the bread machine away. Still using the recipe book for French bread and making boules. Too bad we went gluten free for Crazy Lady. When the kids come home, we make...

Soups are easy with whatever you have on hand. I got 6 pumpkins from Halloween and am making pumpkin and home grown chicken soup. Cook slow. I get the chicken cooking in a bit of oil or lard. Add carrots and onions so it doesn't dry. After the skin is done add pumpkin to fill the pot. 2-4...

Starting new gardens with new time.

Hello and thank you! Appreciate it very much! The tomato picture looks amazing and I imagine it tasted better than it looks! I'm wallowing around and looking forward to learning a bit here. Lots to learn. Appreciate the links to seed sources and some names to research. I jumped into the...

Very interesting and I'm looking for options for tomato. I'm just starting to garden, so experience level is low. I've dabbled a bit, but the tomatoes just never made. I now have bird netting and more space. The cherry tomatoes usually survived most of the birds. Nothing spectacular, so...