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These grafted plants show up every decade or so in the same catalogues that offer five in one fruit trees, ten feet a year shade trees, and other outlandish offers. Don't know how they behave, but it might not be all that good to be worth the effort other than the curiosity. It would be...

I made the best blackberry liqueur this summer. We had a cool wet spring, lots of huge, juicy fat berries. Filled a mason jar with fruit so dead ripe they squished themselves, topped that with about a cup of white sugar, filled the jar with Golden Grain. Used the higher alcohol content...

It is a goal. I didn't say it was realistic. I don't know enough but to try anyways. When I succeed, it's fabulous, when I fail, I do it on an epic scale.

Thanks everyone, but by January my replacement seedlings will be ready to set out for the spring and summer harvesting. I have plenty of seeds, just no plants timing to be mature this fall and winter. They do so well here in Georgia usually, who knew? And yes, 25 to 50 at a patch is barely...

What is black label zinc?

Congrats! I had total crop failure this year and will be hoarding and hiding the last jar of 2012. This stuff is so good. How large of a batch do you cook at a time? What variety are you growing?

Want, want, want these all!!! So brilliant!

Whether it is a yucca or a Nile lily, or other lily, it could be moved, or a bit divided off this fall, and moved into the sun. A lily will have much different roots than yucca. Both need sun for blooming.

My large seed started leek patch has died this summer. I grow them to overwinter here in Georgia, where few people know of it. Having gotten family and friends thoroughly hooked on these, this is a gardening emergency. And it seems none of the online suppliers have any in stock this late...

You scored big, weeping purple leaf redbuds are an expensive grafted tree. Or it could just look weeping as the redbuds do tend to have long arching limbs when young. Still a good find. Eta...'forest pansy' redbud

Well, this looks amazingly close to the weird stuff that grew out of a packet of what was supposed to be red shiso. Some were reddish, some like this. Strong scent, impervious to bugs, bees loved the flowers, drought and neglect tolerant....but did not taste same as the shiso from the Asian...

What about lightening the soil mix as well, with a big percentage of perlite or vermiculite? The Mel's mix for squarefoot gardening has a formula. Can you sit and garden ok? Or is it something you need to do standing only with out bending over? My DH built a series of highly raised beds using...

Thanks everyone! I'm much better today; just weak, and sore from the coughing. My strapping big DS had it just before me and it hit him the same too...sounded like he'd cough out a lung for a couple days! The great part is I can surf all day on garden stuff and work on the garden plan without...

So lucky, Not a dumb question...I think my DH is asking just the same thing! The first little packet of seed was to make more seed (2012) and to see how it performed in my Atlanta area climate vs. where it comes from (Canada). This year I will have enough to try something with if again...

Well, you shouldn't do what I just did - a week long nasty cold followed one clear day later by the flu. All I can do is lay here and web surf. I'll have to sanitize the laptop so others can use it tomorrow. :rolleyes:

Hey everyone! It's been awhile...but today I'm a couch potato with the flu. Ick. But my plans for the 2013 season? Besides getting over the flu. Get the drip irrigation designed (this time not by ME), ordered and installed by April planting. Previous system cluelessly designed (inadequate...

I bought a few bags of the Black Cow " 100%" composted manure over the years, but only a few as I was very concerned about all the sand those poor critters must have been eating!

Ditto on mine as well...a few well-filled cobs and the rest spotty (2012 season). I'm blaming drought and severe neglect. I've saved enough to plant a bigger square this year. Has anyone tried eating it as a sweet corn? I ate field corn that way as a child. I'm shooting for super early...

Sweet potato uses around my kitchen: oven fries, tossed with canola oil and chili powder (gluten free homemade chili powder) potato pancakes mashed with a baked on crunchy top crumble/ crust of ground pecans, canola oil, and a touch of brown sugar in curry with other garden veggies I remember...

I have seen folks make up a raised rim for the lid with a few layers of heavy aluminum foil. The food was further protected by a sheet of foil over top of the food on which the lid assembly was set. No feet to raise it above the coals? 3 brick chunks or well positioned rocks will do just fine...