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Post some photos of the bark and leaves and then the fruit once it starts to form... maybe someone can help you figure out what variety you have. I have a pear tree here and it has a companion Bradford pear for pollination. The Bradford flowers earlier and doesn't produce edible fruit (just...

I like the grey/brown color, like wild rabbits. :) That's one reason I'm not thrilled about New Zealands or Californians... mostly white, with red eyes. How long do you wait to process them, and how much do yours weigh at that time? I just did my first at 12 weeks. They are 3-4 lbs live...

I don't need *that* many pets. :D I processed the first one today, at 12 weeks, and got 2 lbs of meat on the bone. MUCH easier than doing a chicken, though it's not really a fair comparison if you are scalding and plucking the chicken as that's the hard part. Now to find a recipe for later...

I see hoodat already pointed out that it's edible, but I came across this blog post saying the same thing: http://chiotsrun.com/2012/02/25/the-first-wild-salad-of-the-season/ -Wendy

Probably with one of these: The Potmaker . .... and here are my first tomatoes for 2012, started in the middle of January and repotted twice already: 120220_6291 by wsmoak, on Flickr I'm going to move them up to my largest containers and put them out very early with an eye on the weather...

Good question. Maybe for this you might grab a roll of super cheap paper towels from the dollar store? The ones I use are pretty strong too, although if it's only 1/2" wide the roots could just go sideways a little and then down. -Wendy

I do wood chips, and 'weed' with the tiller. After a while I can scoop up the 'path,' add it to a bed, and put down more chips. This works because I'm on 20 mostly wooded acres, so there are *always* trees and branches to chip up and use. I do wonder whether it's better for the environment to...

Johnny's has a nice calendar that tells you when to start seeds. Enter your last frost date and it will recalculate all the dates for you. (Let us know if you need help finding that date.) http://www.johnnyseeds.com/e-PDGSeedStart.aspx You're probably a little early on the tomatoes and...

I don't think sweet pickle relish has bell peppers in it, at least not the green ones! Ew. Banana peppers sound like a possibility though. -Wendy

I have a recipe for pickle relish (in the Ball Blue book) that calls for "sweet peppers". What should I plant? -Wendy

It depends on what the soil and drainage are like underneath. That is, why are you doing raised beds? If you are working with hard packed clay that refuses to drain, then the deeper the better! If your soil is generally okay and you're doing raised beds mostly for convenience or looks, then...

The tomato and pepper will probably appreciate the heat from the grow light. (You don't need anything special, just a plain old 'shop light' from the hardware store and some daylight bulbs.) Mine pop right up in a few days. (Conversely, the spinach would rather not have the heat.) -Wendy

Now the pink magnolia is blooming. :( It's just *way* too early and I'm sure it means we're going to have a three-day ice storm in February that will kill everything. -Wendy

Great idea! I was just thinking about ordering some plant markers from Farmtek because my current system of ballpoint pen on popsicle sticks doesn't make it a week outside before they are unreadable. I don't use that much bleach, but we *do* have opaque white gallon milk jugs. -Wendy

Not so little anymore! 120126_6186 by wsmoak, on Flickr I think the three in front are male, they will come up to the front of the cage and let you touch them. The others are skittish and tend to hide in the back (including the mother doe, furthest back in the photo!) -Wendy

You have to fence them out. Thankfully it doesn't take too much to deter them -- chicken wire will do it. Do not put a sturdy top rail on it, or they will hop up there and down into the garden. I use Red Brand Deer & Orchard fence. It has small holes at the bottom to keep out rabbits, and...

I hope we don't have a late cold snap, or many, many trees and flowers are going to get hit. It's been so mild this winter (temps in the 70's in January!) that the plants are all confused. Today when I went out to feed the rabbits I noticed that the tulips have sprouted leaves above the...

Ally, if you can spare the room, just leave them there and protect them from hard freezes. That's probably as much as they could grow before the days got too short. Now that the days are lengthening, once we get past the cold (if you're having any this year -- we aren't!) they will most likely...

First tomato seedling of 2012! 120121_6167 by wsmoak, on Flickr -Wendy

Mine is also still going! I had no idea it would produce that many side shoots. I'm not fertilizing mine. I think that would encourage it to grow more leaves, which would just get frozen in a cold snap. -Wendy