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I love me some spaghetti squash, even the store bought ones. That being said, however, store-bought spaghetti squash doesn't hold a candle to the ones I've grown in my yard.

Don't give up yet! I thought the same thing... I thought, well heck, I got them planted early, where are my zucchinis? Nothing but male flowers for the LONGEST time. Within the last 6-7 days, though, all four of my zucchini plants are covered in tiny, baby zucchinis, all of a sudden, out of...

As far as blossom-end rot, I can tell you that last year (our first year in this house), every tomato and curcurbit I planted got blossom-end rot, and we had ZERO yield last year (I only planted a few plants... we got here late in the season). I learned this year about adding calcium, so I...

So can anyone who has experience growing pumpkins give a newbie some friendly advice on how to grow giant pumpkins? I'm going looking for seed today.

Spaghetti squash are an excellent alternative to pasta for individuals who are on a gluten-free eating plan.

My volunteer pumpkin turned out to be a spaghetti squash! :barnie

I planted a thornless boysenberry this year, a red flame seedless grape, a thompson seedless grape, and I don't even remember how many varieties of melon... 4, maybe 5.

Ate our first tomato of the season from our garden yesterday. I had forgotten how much better they are than store bought. Nothing like fresh, sweet, yummy t'maters.

Little tomatillo husks started showing up on all 3 of my plants yesterday. :)

I am going to ask my landlady today for permission to plant a tree in the yard (she will probably let me). Lotta folks around here grow apples & it would be nice to have a tree of my own here.

I had issues a couple of years ago with slugs infesting my cruciferfous plants. Here are a couple of things: 1) Salt will completely destroy the root systems of some of your plants, and I *highly* recommend against it, like, more vociferously than I can even tell you. 2) Slugs and snails...

I used to live in 95817, right around the corner from UCDMC. It was the late 80s and early 90s & I worked at the hospital there. Small world.

I feel like I am in good company here. I guess there are worse things a person could be addicted to. I started out with 4 heirloom varieties of tomato this year, couple of pumpkins... oh, ok, maybe some squash, what the heck.... ooooh, lookit those pretty Tigger melons, I want some of those...

Just goes to show you how everybody's chickens are different. My chickens ate all the mint we had when we lived at the house in Sacramento. They ate my mint, my oregano, my basil, my rosemary, and a little bit of the lavender (after a while, they stopped eating that... dunno why, don't really...

I kinda figured as much. I wonder if I can feed green pumpkins to my chickens? They eat the leaves and everything else.

I would like to join in on the pumpkin contest! This is our first year growing pumpkins, and boy oh boy, am I sure glad I left a big, open, unplanted space in the yard for them to vine out! We planted 2 varieties of pumpkin in the garden: Jarrahdale and Sugar Pie Baby (probably not gonna...

A while back, I got a mixed assortment of 500 heirloom tomato seeds from an ebayer I've bought from a couple of times. It is over 60 varieties of seeds, all mixed together, gotta plant them and see what you get. So I'm starting some in potting soil today, probably about 36 of them, just to see...

I haven't tried any of the gimmicks. I've been gardening for more than 30 years, and until 3 years ago, we never had a problem with tomatoes getting ripe on the vine. We also used to have about 25 to 30 days scattered throughout the summer every year where temps reach over 100 degrees... last...

We raise and process our own chickens, and I wouldn't have it any other way! We have been doing dual-purpose birds, but I want more breast meat, so we are going to try red broilers this year.

Man, what I wouldn't give for your temps! Those are normal temps for this area, though it has been about 6 years since the last time this area reached its normal temperature range. If I had your temps, maybe my tomatoes would ripen.