We went camping last year with my SIL and her husbands extended family and before we left for home I had gave my plastic tub that I placed my cloths in for the weekend with the lid to my SIL's SIL and the next time I seen her at a family function she gave it back to me all set up with a handful...
Mystery solved.....it has been confirmed this vine is called Thladian Oliveri grown from potato like tubers with a bell shaped yellow flower with heart shaped lightgreen leaves climbing up until a heavy frost...found in Hebci China by Westner's and introduced to the New York Boldnical...
If you want to come over to my place I can set up a dinner date at my friends and we will let you taste it first ...ha ha ha !!! If it was edible I think she could feed a family of five ....for years....
I am on a mission now....thanks everyone I am going to pass on the information and see if...
I have a fenced in garden but the enterance is wide open.....at night I place a string of tinfoil pans with streamers low to the ground ...my dogs due the day job...I also put tinfoil pans in my strawberry patch to keep away the birds....good luck...
No I dont think its a melon type plant....because if you could imagine a string of Christmas tree lights you can imagine when she pulled out one plant and kept pulling out popped another little walnut size bulb connected by a sting like root and another and another all with a plant growing from...
I am not sure what the flower looks like....the plant is just starting to grow....she did tell me its a vine and the flower was yellow and one year it got so out of hand it grew up into her cedar trees and sufficated the whole side......
I'll talk to her on Monday and get some more information...
....all the plants she gave me I have washed the roots out and checked for anything unusual....trust me I dont want this weed ....I have enough already....
Okay I have no photo's right now....went to take a picture but both batteries needed recharging...I will put it up soon....
I was at a "new" gardening friends today and she was digging up plants to give me....I in return was giving her chicken manure...
She showed me this plant that has taken...
I brown paper bag seeds from my garden ....friend and famlies gardens ...strangers gardens...etc etc....every couple years I clean up my tons of brown paper bags by either scattering them in my MIL country ditches/or ours or along the trails out back or make a new garden or when I have a garage...
I have heard if you stake the sod in the top corners for a period of time the grass roots will have time to grow into the earth thats already prepared underneath ..water the sod really good......You have to be very careful to section off the area of sod that has been staked because you dont...
I cannot see the little buggers!!! What I have done
.... using a small glass or jar...I use shot glasses
.....fill with apple cider vinegar leave an inch space
.....cover top with saran wrap use an elastic to secure
.....make sure saran wrap is smooth no wrinkles
......I use a wooden shish ka...
Good Morning Everyone.....Just wanted to know what you all do with your asparagus patches once they have "ferned out'.....We have a mature patch(previous owners) that has been over come with weeds....Bineweed !!!! AHHHH!!! Everytime I walk by the patch it seems the weeds are waving at me...
When...