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3 sisters it is! Two blocks of sweet corn 2-3 weeks apart, pole beans and butternut squash. The other area I might try a mix of bush beans and pumpkins, with the bush beans finishing by the time the vines take off. I will do wider spacing on the corn rows than last year to make picking...

Cattle panels look good, but an investment. Hmmm. Well, now what to do with the forty or so concrete reinf. mesh cages? Guess I'll put the cucumbers and peppers in them. The peppers way outgrew the puny little commercial tomato cones last summer anyways. (I bid $1.00 at the farm auction for...

Wifezilla, your advice sounds excellent for tomatoes. Last year the new virus wiped out our crop. (Atlanta). To sum up all the tomato advice: - an empty 3 feet between tomato cages (we used concrete reinforcing wire mesh to make all ours). - start as early as you have room for - plant as deep...

I guess so, I've surely eaten many! Did you know if you plant the seeds they have a 98% chance of being identical to the parent plant genetically?

I am trying out the garden planning software just offered recently FREE this year, from mother earth news. It seems pretty good....has default settings for spacing, varieties can be entered, custom spacing, time in the ground by month. Anyone else looking at this software? I put in my zip...

I just now today saw what the top bar hives are and the management outline vs. the stacked box things I've always seen. Opinions? I'm thinking top bar would be stealthy in my subdivision, much cheaper for DIY, and easier to manage.

Thank you! I've been putting off beekeeping for "someday" because of the cost...with these home made top bar hives and system, I can not only do it for very little cash input ...but it doesn't look like a bee hive and I can go stealth in my neighborhood! hee hee.

I even saw the "southern spotted wilt virus" or whatever its called (confirmed by the extension office that sent samples to UGA) on my potatoes. Last year was dreadful on tomatoes and squashes. As in two slicer tomatoes (out of 45 plants) and zero squashes (out of two dozen varied). Zero...

FYI - the only way I've grown eggplant is to drown the block bed, which is apart from the rest of the garden, in basil plants. Ratio roughly of 4 basil around each 1 eggplant. I had to dust twice early on for bugs, but after that the basil hid the plants and I got a really good crop. This...

:rolleyes: Um, what should follow tomatoes completely wiped out by that new blight?

albizia julibrissim is very pretty, very invasive and I planted it on purpose because I liked the flowers. When it got big, it got the vascular fungal infection endemic to this area, fell apart but the roots would not die! 20 years later still fighting sprouts... I think the roots grow to a 5:1...

still have dozens of tomatoes, peppers and eggplants I started to go into the ground. Not to mention beans, squash, melons. I dig holes until the shoulder pain makes me feel like pukin', ice it up until it stops, repeat. I am so far behind, all my helpers are elsewhere and its gonna rain by...

that's really funny! So pretty! today I stuck cuttings in soil in cut-off soda bottles. I'd taken the extra long stems off some pretty asters I bought in the farmers market, and salvaged stems from my brand-new climbing rose that got smushed by a collapsed fence. Earlier, I'd dipped them in...

the only disease/insect problem I remember from arborist school is west coast's sudden oak death disease. There are probably others, but usually not a problem for healthy trees. The bigger issue is that fresh wood chips tie up nitrogen as the fresh chips decompose. Six months stockpiling does...

Uh Oh! I knew about the wet feet, but that's kinda alarming. My main clump just might be over the water line, hope it isn't leaking. A clump I'm fighting to kill is on my foundation under a problematic downspout. Guess when it stops raining/freezing, I'll go do a line test for leaks. (That's...

oh gosh, thanks! DH and I were dreading rebuilding the raised beds we made a few years ago with free lumber. These had done wonderfully, yet sadly are decaying. I will now search out free cinder blocks to replace the timber, and either fill the blocks with rubble and cap with solid blocks, or...

The birds "planted" mine. We made excellent jelly the last two years. I didn't even realize you could buy these - pretty weedy around here. I hack at the runners to keep it in one clump and not take over, and every winter cut to the ground the oldest canes, about a third of the stems. So...

Hello Again - I'm NOT using Sevin. Nope. I've amended the plan of attack for this spring: - chick tractor over the beds, which are at the other end of the garden from last year - moving the coop between the 4 beds every few days. Its heavily mulched with 3 yr old hay. 1. start indoors in...

And I was getting all guilty over my $35 order just for tomatoes and peppers. And I have a big drawer (2'x3' x 8") full of sorted packets, some old, some saved op, some shared... Now I don't feel so greedy! Although I might have to hire a plow to break up enough clay for all my greedy plans...

obsessed - it's the same for me about the Sevin dust. Lots of people dust their dogs with it and declare it a safe cure-all; others just gasp at how horrid it is. Haven't done it yet myself for, honestly, the same reasons as you - too lazy and cheap.