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My Mom breeds, shows, and sells Buckeyes. :) When she got her farm, I goaded her into getting chickens.... I wanted some, but have such a tiny yard, and she had some 28 acres. She got buckeyes because she'd read somewhere that they'll hunt mice. http://www.jsquaredfarms.com/

I *WISH* I could grow rhubarb. Sigh.

A BUILDING INSPECTOR demanded you use OSB? Over Plywood? Like, a city inspector? Feh. Idiot. (the inspector, not you) OSB is just glorified chipboard. Friends don't let friends build with chipboard. Or, lately, MDF. Anything particulate like that, relying on glue for integrity, will...

I think mine was taken in January/Feb (pre-raised beds, post Camry purchase). Is just the Google Maps satellite image. Google Earth will tell you what date the photo was taken, and you can scroll through images from previous dates over the last several years... including the flood.

The "printscreen" button copies an image of your screen. Open an image editor (paint, or...? I have the Photoshop), open a new document, and CTRL-V paste it. You'll have to crop out the website edges and such. Save as a jpeg or tif or gif or whatever TEG will read, then upload per the usual...

Eh, I don't know that it's an entitled first-world problem. Your farmland has been compromised. Your harvest is in danger. Since when is growing food a luxury equivalent to a daily macchiato? Even if you don't rely on it for survival. Don't apologize. :) Oh, and... make nice with the...

Some, including mine, are shotgun doubles. Single shotguns are narrower... usually only about 15' wide. Our unit is 12' wide x 86' long; the whole house is 25'x100'. I rent out the other side. Some of those houses are single-family homes tho, and have hallways (ie, not exactly shotguns)...

I figure someone should get an aerial photo for their click, eh? These are my neighbors. :) I only know a few of them. There are just. so. many.

digitS gave me a good idea. :) This is my block. And THIS is my house/yard (outlined in red). My garden is that funny little dogleg to the southwest. My neighbor has a comparitively HUGE garden (outlined in blue). Thankfully we get along well with most of our neighbors. The only...

Spotted Wilt? Or Thrips? Or both? :) The spotted wilt was fairly easy to identify: Brown spots relatively evenly distributed over the leaf, then leaves, then branches wilt and leaves get crispy. The plant may survive, but the fruit will be worthless. It's carried by thrips. I don't believe...

I looked up pictures of Juliet tomatoes, and SOME of them looked like these.... others looked more roma or grape shaped; some had pointy ends. These aren't sharply divided at the bottoms, but you can definitely see an indentation. The plant is kinda spindly, and currently (75 days?) topping...

More updates. :) Dill has taken over my cucumber bed. I don't know if that's why the cukes aren't growing much (there is rather a lot of shade in that bed... but they get sun from the other side...??), but they have FINALLY started moving. If they're anything like the melons, they'll be over...

I have lizards in my garden. A few blue-tailed salamanders, but mostly green/brown anoles. I was encouraging a toad/frog (it was dark) toward my garden the other evening, when I looked at my potted sweet olive and saw something funny on the leaves. I looked closer, and found a bright green...

Neat! I like your tree-branch trellis. And your GIANT plants. :)

'Snot the airflow, it's the darned thrips. Grrr. Regardless, the loss of those two plants has thinned things out a bit. This is the sum total of my emergency Sungold harvest, in a 1 gallon ziploc bag. :( It'll be a tiny batch of relish. Please, Tomato Gods, don't let the Wilt find my...

GAH! Sungolds are hit with the Spotted Wilt! :barnie My beautiful prolific Sungolds! :hit Guess there will be some green tomato relish in my future.... these two plants were LOADED. :(

My foodie friend who wrenched me out of vegetarianism (and will likely never let me return) insists that when you are at a restaurant and foie gras is on the menu you MUST order it, because it will be the best thing on the menu. I have had it, and enjoyed it tremendously. I recommend a plain...

I just saw a review for this book, and decided I MUST read it. Figured some of y'all might as well. :) Publisher's Blurb: How Carrots Won the Trojan War is a delightful collection of little-known stories about the origins, legends, and historical significance of 23 of the worlds most...

I'm finding myself unable to not post a rebuttal, regardless of the intention of the original post. There are inhumane battery farms cranking out eggs, and there are free-range farms collecting eggs from natural nests. Two sides, every story. I was a vegetarian for years. I added back...

The Classic is "Carrots Love Tomatoes" and its sister book "Roses Love Garlic", by Louise Riotte. I've also used "Great Garden Companions" by Sally Jean Cunningham, and "The Organic Gardener's Handbook of Natural Pest and Disease Control". Searching "Companion Planting" on Amazon yields...