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It's called "Love's long journey". It's part of a series that starts out with a movie called "Love comes softly". It's not your average love story. It focuses more on commitment than feelings. There's chickens and horses in there too. :)

I was watching a pioneer era romance movie with my wife last night and I noticed that when they were planting their garden they threw hay on top. It was a little tidbit for us BTE gardeners. :) Bee, when you were doing wood chips did you ever add any blood meal or other organic nitrogen...

Do you have wood chips or hay or something else on your garden?

Well, given the cucumber beetle invasion I elected to go ahead and pull up all my potato plants. My results were as follows: Desiree potatoes 5 lbs. 9 oz., German Butterball 0 lbs, Yukon Gem 6 lbs. 6 oz. I probably planted about 6 lbs. of seed potatoes, but spent about $54 total on seed...

Well, I found out those "milkweed bugs" attacking my potato plants were actually Colorado potato beetles in larva form. They look similar to milkweed bugs and I only knew what adult Colorado potato beetles looked like. I just came in from the garden and I think I now have a striped cucumber...

Hey everyone, Here's my garden update: My 2 early-mid season potato varieties appear to be dying back normally now after the brown spot/early blight issues resolved. They grew back really well after some pretty aggressive pruning. My German Butterball potatoes (late season) are still...

Anything I need to be careful of when checking underneath a live plant? Is there generally any sort of normal pattern that dying off follows (like from upper leaves to lower leaves or from the tips of the leaves toward the stem or the sides of the leaves to the middle)? Well apparently brown...

I'm not sure if anybody saw my question lost in my last post, but is 3-4 weeks before merchant's early harvesting window normal for dying back to occur? Also, will potato brown spot spead to anything other than potatoes even if it has different symptoms, specifically spinach, lettuce, or green...

Well, I have 3 varieties of potatoes planted: Desiree, German Butterball, and Yukon Gem. The Desiree and Yukon Gem are early potatoes and based on the seller of the seed potatoes estimate the Yukon Gem potatoes should be harvested between 6/23-7/13 and the Desiree potatoes 6/14-7/6. The...

Another question I have is I'm not sure what "normal" dying back on mature potatoes looks like vs. an infection or some other problem? When do I attempt to harvest? Most of my early variety potatoes have started flowering already too. We are mostly clay here too in Oklahoma. I think we're...

Well, my DW isn't very enthusiastic about dirt and plants sitting out in the living room or kitchen (and I can't really blame her much, we have a 3 year old that gets into everything. The only place she might be ok with it is the laundry room which only has a north facing window so it wouldn't...

I guess I could try the packages of tomato starts next year but I'd eventually like to do seed saving and reuse my own seed. I was under the impression apple trees were the easiest to grow in my area with tart cherries a close 2nd. I would like to have some sort of fruit or vegetable...

I don't know if anybody here remembers me but I introduced myself in December or so. I'm doing wood chip gardening and have 4 apple trees and one cherry tree recently planted. This is my first year really trying to do gardening so I'd love any advice any experienced gardeners here can give...

These leaves definitely aren't shiny and they aren't real round either.

Beekissed, There isn't any fruit on it. :( lcertuche, Are there any version of creeping thyme that don't ever flower?

It could be that potentially. The leaf size is pretty similar. The pictures I saw on google appear to be more like a small bush than a flat creeping groundcover which is what it seems like my pictures plant is. Maybe just different varieties though. Andrew

I do I don't know. As far as I know our property was used as pasture prior to us buying it a little over a year ago and we haven't planted anything like that.

hey everyone, I'm trying to figure out what this weed is. Each of the little leaflets is only about 1/8" in diameter. They have a fairly dark brown thin stem. It grows really slow upwards but maintains is pretty dense in this area of my yard. Thanks!

Well, finding fairly recent wood chips isn't that hard for me. I have a source, but the work to shovel them into my little Honda Fit and then push them back out onto the garden is quite tiring. If I had a pickup truck then I could just go up to the city green waste facility and they would dump...