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:th just when I thought the goobernment couldn't surprise me.

If you have enough seed and want to see if they worth anything, soak and see if a few sprout, or test a few in a little pot to transplant out.

Looks like a viburnum of some sort... some are supposed to be quite tasty.

Some wild birds seem to enjoy the seeds quite a bit. I've left the frost-killed plants in the garden for now. I've collected a small paper bag - about a pint - of seed heads to start more plants next spring. The little finches, sparrows and wrens are always hanging around the garden.

If you're in Indiana, go to my relatives' farms up around Logansport. They used have these and honey locust trees in the pastures.

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just wanted to share a miracle discovery. Since my radishes very often turn too hot, I found slicing thinly, liberaly salting with a dash of sugar and let set an hour or so before making the salad. Tones down the heat very nicely.

In horticulture class, we were told the white ones - Morus alba- were hallucinogenic, not to be eaten. I always wondered how many of my classmates ran around testing that. Anybody here know if that is true? In Indiana/Ohio, this was considered a good pasture tree. It is very messy, but a...

Hi! If you build a little cold frame (scrap wood, old window glass) or tunnel (opened tomato cages, remay or plastic), you can put in lettuces, spinach, radish, beet, carrot, chard, kale, and other cool weather greens. With protection, you might get some collards, turnips and kale to grow nice...

SG, what shredder do you use?

I grew scarlet runner beans up a dead peach tree. It was pretty hot and dry this summer. Even though I watered, they didn't grow much until fall cooled things down. The hummers visited frequently, but then the mocking bird found out how well it liked to eat the blooms right up! I couldn't...

It's my moisture management then. Tends to be a bit slack. So I'll stick with my yogurt cups and soda bottles, I can write with a sharpie what's in them and date...

even worse than peat pots for drying out, are coir/coconut fiber pots...I tested a flat this spring. Couldn't tear them apart, seem to dry out FAST and I'm worried they'll never break down. The plants - marigolds - all seem stunted, but I've had some trouble with a bad bag of soil. Any one...

No photos. But I've been recycling used canning lids, writing on the inside white side with super sharpies, and punching a hole in the top with hammer and nail for a twist tie. These stayed readable all summer last year, many through the winter too as I forgot to gather them up.

Even if burning is allowed, be sure it's not too late in the season or the fresh growing tips can be damaged. Burning of grasslands is a proven management tool, but timing is everything - what species you want to encourage/discourage by burning time of year. Unfortunately, it isn't too great...

The list is basically starting enough plants for my own use and multiplying by four. Tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, tomatillo, and so much more. Many of our friends took a few plants last year when I went overboard with starting seeds the first time, and had great luck - some even better than...

OMG, you all find these for me and I am greatful. Am emailing the pdf catalogue to DS to print in color for me. More garden porn. hee hee.

All DH's coworkers have been sooo amused with tales of the garden, the chickens, etc. And now we are going to a weekend workshop on hog butchering and sausage making. This year, there are 3 others who keep chickens at DH's work. And one of our neighbors in the subdivision has chickens - and a...

thanks, I'll try one in the drip from the rain barrels. I thought the oxalic acid, even though very low in the stalks (vs the leaf) was not good to eat raw?

Oooh, oooh! I want some too! Some nurseries sell it around here (Atlanta) but I have never seen it IN a garden here. I love rhubarb and the few times its in the stores, its expense and limp. If I see it around in the stores this spring, I'll experiment by putting it in the shadier areas of the...