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Is it worth buying organic (so not sprayed with sprouting inhibitors) potatoes and risking them not being certified disease-free? Or saving my own year to year? Where I live, there are many nasties in the soil. Lots of blights and fungus and bugs. I've been ok with the seed potatoes at the...

I've got fairly new dwarf apple and plum (zone 7b) and am going through protecting the root zones. The chickens seem to enjoy digging around the little trunks. Bags of leaves, brown paper (leaf bags, flattened), scrap limbs and old half rotted lumber to hold it all down. I think the birds...

This is a wonderful experiment. Will be following your progress.

Chickweed is good for people too. Raw or as cooked greens. I like it.

Double Ditto on what lighthawk says about vines invading the house. Trumpet vine/Campsis radicans was my experience. Here's a link to one of many state lists of toxic plants. On the other hand, morning glories went crazy all over my run fence, scattering seed like crazy, and none of them...

Kassaundra, can you please share a photo of your home made feeder that "holds feed for a month"? I'm just shooting for a long weekend away.

Too Late! Already ordered the Gaspe corn, their purple podded pea, and a short, fat parsnip for clay soils. I have a friend here in Georgia that loves parsnips and introduced me to these delicious roots. I'm getting the dwarf, super early Gaspe as a sweet corn, just to win with the...

$3.95 for 50 seeds, but $5.95 shipping...it's from Heritage Seeds, Canada. Where did you get yours, Thistlebloom?

So, I'm going to have to get some for the flower beds for fun. Would make a great gift.

How did that dwarf corn turn out? I just gotta know...

This is interesting. The next town over was home to the Angel Food Ministries - the ones under federal indictment for pocketing lots...so now there is a big, enormous hole in the charity food services around here. Everyone is shying away from donating because of this scandal. I'll be calling...

seriously consider giving another gardening friend a pickup truck load of dirt. Well, nice soil compost mix for her raised bed boxes...

Yay! Someone in Georgia raising rabbits! Congrats on the babies. I will be following your progress as we are seriously talking about adding meat rabbits to our "zoo". What is your setup like? How do you cope with our heat and humidity in the summer? Is your cage setup indoors? Questions...

Good luck. How's it going? If you can, invest in a bucket of the high-end outdoor construction screws. They make all the projects so much easier - go in like butter and the heads don't chew up, and can be taken right back out several times while figuring out how something should go together.

It's a good thing my DH doesn't lurk here, he'd have rabbits yesterday. I love rabbits, too; they're delicious. And they hate me. Even someone's really tame housepet rabbit took one look at me and attacked. Maybe I just looked hungry at it too hard. Is it really that hard to care for them in...

Send me some snow pictures! We had a snowflake warning just the other day! :lau (zone 7b, Atlanta / Georgia Piedmont) Under remay (frost blankets over opened, arched tomato cages) I've still got some lettuce, dill, swiss chard. The parsley and cilantro won't give up until February. The...

I can't even grow decent watermelons here in Georgia, so I'm no help. I will be reading everything you all post, though! *lurks*

In warm weather (sweet corn weather) I'm reading that sudan grass, aka sorghum, is a strong growing cover and forage crop. Articles state that it can be grazed or cut a couple times before tilling under. I'm rather found of sorghum syrup, and grain sorghum, but making those things is not in the...

Simply build the trellis yourselves, no prefab. It's called, in some places, overkill, but it works for me. And since you have sandy soil, sink those posts really deep so they don't heel over. And with rocks, the bigger the better for visually anchoring a spot.

And, as you find big rocks - you do get those? - use in the borders and as accents. How is the runoff? Um, can you tell anything with this quick sketch?