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Why not just clear coat (or paint) the bejeebers out of the OSB? I've seen it done, and it looks nice. :) I don't even think they sanded it much (the glue is not something I'd want to create suspended particles of, so if you do a light sand to knock the fuzz off, wear a mask). Check out a...

It's hot and humid quite early in the year. Between the humidity, general heat, and the lack of a day/night temperature difference (after July 1 it's about 90degresF and 90% humidity until October), I can get huge green plants, but the pollen is much pickier about doing its thing. I've been...

South Louisiana, actually; NOLA = New Orleans Louisiana. I'm gonna go get some transplants from a quirky little nursery next weekend. I really wanted a super early start this year. Over the last two years I have gotten ONE edible tomato. Have lost the others to bugs, rats, slugs, and...

On December 25 I started 96 tomato seeds of 8 different varieties, from Sample Seeds. I kept the flat in my teeny greenhouse, which is a plastic shop shelving unit from Home Depot under a cover made from middling thick double polished clear vinyl with a zipper down the front/middle, out on my...

They're very tasty, but prep in the kitchen is a PITA. :)

What if my brug doesn't Y? :idunno

The subject line is apt for me, as I've only gotten ONE tomato this year. But I didn't get a photo. All the rest have rotted on the vine. I'm having a sucky-bug problem this year, and have had issues with the plants themselves yellowing or just plain burning up. And now, of course, it's way...

http://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/PHZMWeb/# I'll have to change my profile... I didn't notice the wee orange spot over New Orleans that puts me in 9b.

I started pepper seeds (obtained this spring) on my back porch (SE Facing, covered, light until 1:pm) 60+ days ago. Only 15% have sprouted, within the last 3 weeks. Only 2 of those are starting true leaves. It has been above 65* AT NIGHT the whole time, and reached 89* yesterday. It's...

Yep, that's the back of my house, as seen from the backyard. My yard is wee, tho... So, this photo shows a double staircase on the back of the house. Which my carpenter broke when he was fixing the rear porch, so it all needs replaced. The doodle above is the new stair (and chicken coop)...

Got all my transplants in on March 8. Had issues with the wilty potatoes, and ONE tomato. One of the Marianna's Peace plants is getting yellow leaves and lesions. I've been pulling them off, but they keep coming back. Everyone else with yellowing leaves has mostly recovered. Dagma's...

:yuckyuck Even though I live in New Orleans, I don't much care for the mudbugs. We're just off crawfish boil season now, and I don't know how many boils I went to and said, "No, thanks... but I will eat the artichokes, garlic, sausage, pineapple, mushrooms, potatoes and corn y'all also threw...

Baymule, Re: Tobacco Tea as an Insecticide Do you find that using tobacco on tomatoes spreads Tobacco Mosaic Virus? I used it once to great effect on a Hibiscus that was covered in Aphids, but have been concerned about TMV with my heirloom tomatoes.

Intriguing.... Living in New Orleans, it's way too hot and humid to store root veg. I've been considering making a concrete pit in my raised "basement", but the water table is such (as is flooding) that I don't know how to make it work. It's why we don't have proper basements. :) I've been...

A couple weeks ago I pulled a manky-looking Yukon Gold that I'd planted on March 16. It had 4 wee potatoes on the bottom, just smaller than a golf ball. I didn't poke around much in the dirt to see if there were more. It was about to bloom, but then went yellow and spotty.

THEY ARE SCAPES! :weee I didn't think I was going to get any. So I found this awesome article: WTF, CSA? Pickles, I think... for Bloody Marys. And a meal feature. Then I think I will have used them all up. :(

We've had rather a lot of rain lately. I know I've seen some flea beetles, but not TONS. Not like last year. Not yet. I still have some Spinosad I can spray, tho I'd prefer not to, if the plants can handle the damage. If the yellowing leaves are from insect damage or age (the tomatoes...

I thought a garlic would only make one scape? This is like, 8 - 10 leaves. Poof! Pouf? Puff? I'll dig around the base of this one and see what's up.

I had to pull this out, lest my plan for nestboxes get buried in the rest of the thread. I think what I'm going to do is use the nook under the end of the stairs, the most likely hen-preferred area for laying, as the nesting box(es). So, I kinda thought I might make a flip-up stair tread to...

I planted a bunch of garlic in... November? I think. Maybe December. Anyway... they made leaves like I expected garlic would. Alternating sides, big oniony leaves. But then, a week ago, they started doing this: My neighbor had scapes on his garlic last week, but I don't think that's...