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I love the smell of good bourbon, but loathe the taste, lol

The leaves of my tomatoes have curled up until some of them resemble a fiddlehead fern. I've never seen this on tomatoes before... can someone give me an idea of what's going on? I just found out my son had not been deep watering them so my first thought was water stress. I deep watered them...

I'm still searching for a variety that will grow with something approaching reliability, but has good taste. I was underwhelmed by Early Girl, and most of the Arctic types. This year I'm trying Black From Tula which was recommended by a long-time gardener in this area.

The day before my husband had his motorcycle accident, we watched a doe give birth to twins in the empty field next to our yard- she was no more than about 40-50 feet away, and yesterday a fork-horn buck in velvet was resting near the fence of my garden. I didn't see it, but a cougar was in our...

The smell of artemisia at twilight.... nicotiana.... antique roses.... moist, finished compost.

I ran across a listing for Black Garbanzo beans; they said the black color meant that they had more anthocyanins and could sprout in cooler soil than most. I think I'll give them a try, maybe starting them in my hot bed first before setting them out. Hummus and fried chick peas...

I agree... I usually eat them when they are white with just the slightest touch of yellow. They are so delicious!

I'll bet you would never recognize Medford now... it's grown so much! When I look at Mt McLoughlin I find myself thinking about ash... and prevailing winds and stuff like that, lol. I'm thinking the burlap shade I put up may have been a bad idea for the radishes, although the lettuces and...

Well, if you insist on growing corn, yes it will be prohibitively expensive to completely enclose it. I was thinking more along the lines of things like bush beans and beets and cabbages, which could easily be enclosed for not too much money. If you are fixed on growing rare and endangered...

@Mackay, I did the same thing for my nettles and horseradish and Jerusalem artichokes. But I bought some cheap garbage cans and cut them in half. Drilled drainage holes into the bottom half and use the top half like you do. Either way, I also have some pine rounds from a tree that fell on our...

Parsley makes a wonderful chimichuru sauce too! I use tarragon in eggs, vinegar (tarragon vinegar is a key ingredient in my Summer Spaghetti Salad), and in a nice tuna supper salad (can of tuna in olive oil, can of white beans, olives, sundried tomatoes, mixed. Mix in chopped tarragon. I...

Have you tried actually CAGING your plants? I have done that. I built a raised bed out of 2x10 lumber and stapled 1/2" mesh hardware cloth to the bottom, to keep the burrowers out. Then I filled the bed with good potting soil. I built a frame over the top with more stapled-on hardware cloth...

I want to plant quinoa also- it seems like a natural here in my mile-high mountain garden; but I have lots of lambsquarters too. I've been thinking of harvesting it for ourselves as well as the ducks. One plus with planting in a strict grid pattern is that anything that does not come up in that...

Well, whatever it is, both the family and the ducks are nutty about it. I've got 9 plants which hopefully will give us all enough. Most years, I can harvest kale until about January before it finally poops out on me. We prefer the flavor over spinach or any of the other popular leafy greens...

@baymule, I haven't grown corn because I haven't much room. Is that a sweet corn, or a cornmeal type? I have to completely fence the garden area to a height of 8 feet to keep the deer out, then add another layer of 1" mesh about 2 feet high at the bottom to keep the rabbits and hares out...

hmmm, I planted something that was advertised as Russian Red, but it's coming in looking very different from yours. is this the stuff called "dinosaur kale"?

This is my first year planting garlic, but I planted them in the spring. Not sure what to do now. We usually get our first frost somewhere mid to late September.

I want to try making more fermented pickles, including dilled carrots and beans. DH just went through a course of antibiotics so I need to help him build up his gut bacteria again. I figured I'd start by making some farmers cheese and then I would have the whey to help things along. I love...

I think I'm going to have to give up on cauliflower myself... it either gets too hot too quickly here, or too cold. Cauliflower seems to be real picky about weather and the climate here is just too extreme for it. I can remember harvesting 2 and 3 pound cauliflowers when I gardened in the San...

I'm not sure, but I think they are a couple of new varieties that are resistant to the blight that nearly spelled the end of hazelnut/filberts. I know it's only been recently that I could buy hazelnut trees in Oregon again.