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Nasturtiums...peppery and sharp. Radish seed pods when tender and young, before they get stringy - my kids like these better than the radishes themselves. Colorful kales, cabbages and mustards - leaf color can be quite ornamental. Redbud - Cercis canadensis - is also an early spring edible...

And if the cornish x's are all gone, try some nice dual purpose bird breeds; buff orphingtons are good layers, big. Roosters are delicious, slow roast moist heat, or slow stewed. Best broth there is. DH wants some cornish x's to try. We'll see. I've got my hands full with other projects...

kudzu....lol....no. Although introduced as a popular exotic ornamental in Victorian England, nonono and no...I'm from Georgia. Annuals to try: Scarlet runner bean (hummingbirds), Moon flower vine (night bloom, fragrant), tropical stuff such as boganvilliea.

catjac, we're rather rural around here...all my neighbors have a minimum one acre! But a friend across town lives in a heavy shade subdivision, and has big teen sons.... that need gas money :cool:

Well everyone, here in the Atlanta area I'd estimate we're six to eight weeks ahead of schedule. Everything's leafed out. We broke LIFETIME WORLD records for pollen - over 9000. Even broke the record for number of days over 80F in March. Summer is going to be TOUGH, hot, dry, bad storms...

thank you all so much for the suggestions and the sympathy; it's helpful more than I can say. Mother's Day suggestion will be one of those wheeled bench thingies. Also, I'm not the only stubborn one out in the garden finding that it's the only kind of "keep moving" that fits. Just getting...

After a long hiatus to the real world, here I am again due to pain. Chronic problem, docs don't know what to do, and I can't function again with this flare up. So here I am, begging for suggestions. What do you all do to function with a bad back? Work tips, work out tips, self medication...

I spent maybe 60 seconds there today. DO NOT LIKE. I'm bummed. Will have to wait for a good day when my eyes focus decently and the computer geek is home to see if it can be "fixed" back to my liking. My brain just went bonkers on it.

Try searching online/over phone at local wholesale nurseries for "liners", the babies that get grown up to pots. A bundle of liners shouldn't cost much at all, although the minimum might be 50. In fact, that's such a good idea, that I'm going to look into that myself.

So true, so true! It's winter and I'm laid up with nothing to do! And to busy in the summer to keep track.

Welcome and keep those photos coming! Wish MY dad would come over with a load of manure for the garden! Wow. Did you start all those plants from seed? Is that hay/straw used as mulch? wow.

I have had the MEN garden planner for a whole year plus that intro period; my subscription is up soon. I'm having a hard time deciding if I want to renew. It's an incomplete melding of a stripped autocad and a stripped excel; using both programs at work, I keep expecting this garden planner to...

I've been reading hours and hours the last few days on the internet about this and bio-intensive gardening methods. I'm willing to convert! However, I'm finding nothing on real hard data on what to spend your days doing; ie., what is the typical workday and how do I focus on the most important...

Last year, we had someone with a tractor and wide PTO tiller break up the new spot (100x25/30ft). We have lots of invasive bermuda grass that just loved it. I plan on rotating in lots of smother green manure crops and tilling them in repeatedly. I find lots of rocks this way. At least this...

I put myself on the mailing list for every one of the seed catalogs on the Mother Earth News "best of" list. I want EVERYTHING!!! Trying valiantly to stick to ordering things the local place won't carry. The local place is Buckles Hardware, in business since 18something, a real hanger-on of...

Sure, they're cute now. Until they sink teeth to the bone in my finger. Why have they always hated me? Well, if DH gets his rabbits, it'll make it easier to eat them. But gosh they're cute. And if I take care of them (I know it'll end up me doing the dailies) I'll get attached, just like the...

Rabbit care question: Is it possible to safely set up the rabbit area/cages so that I can go away for a weekend with little oversight from housemates? I have the chickens set up this way...oversized waterers and feeders, super duty coop and run. I am still not sold on DH's meat rabbit project...

Here in 7b Georgia, rosemary is a short-lived perennial that hates wet feet. Mine that are in neglected raised areas, top of slope type things with not all clay soil, last pretty long and get large. I can dig up and transplant the lower branches that root (dump mulch and soil along the lower...

I set up drip irrigation, which is probably why the chickens dug those spots up so bad. They had my leaves/paper/branches dug up by the next day, so I'll put a roll of chicken wire on the TSC shopping list.

My in-laws in Germany have allotment gardens. I drive them all crazy by photographing EVERYTHING in sight when I visit. I find them fascinating, so individual, so inventive.