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I just harvested my first stuff for the season. Snipped a few handfuls of basil to go with my pasta. :throw I saw 7 or 8 baby tomatoes on my Roma bushes. :) Lots of little seedlings up too. I'm afraid to weed, till the stuff gets bigger. Don't want to take out the wrong ones. ETA- My stuff...

Ridge Runner- " You can normally eat dried bean varieties as green beans, just like green bean varieties. It might cut into your yield of dried beans, epecially with bush varieties. You can also let your green bean varieties mature and use them as dried beans if you wish. I grow enough green...

Take them off and stick them in the dirt. They root well and become free plants. Just started doing this, but it's working. You could root them in little pots too.

One stepfather had a green thumb and grew plenty of veggies. If he had been I good guy, I probably would have learned to garden from him. Us kids harvested stuff for dinner sometimes. My Mom grew roses and some other flowers, but no veggie beds. She tried tomatoes, but when that bed died-...

In the wild- I wouldn't think twice about collecting some seed. The garden centers have lots of patented plants though. I don't want the plant police coming after me over DNA :hide so I don't buy plants much anymore. I buy seed for the old varieties instead.

You might make a strong frame and put lattice panels on them. You could train a vine on it even. I'd use roses or grapes on it here. Roses might work for you too.

Is artichoke hard (or hopefully easy) to grow? I want to try it.

Give it to me :lol: Yummmmm.

Can we have that recipe for the Korean pancakes? Sounds good.

:tools Planted a 2nd garden bed today. Hungarian Wax peppers Asparagus (Yard Long) beans- Kentucky Wonder pole beans Marigolds cucumber- Wisconsin SMR 58 (pickles) and Armenian (slicers) pumpkins- Small Sugar squash- Table Queen Acorn and Waltham Butternut bunching onions Grand Rapids lettuce...

If you have a dehydrator, you can make veggie chips with some of the extra. Add whatever seasonings you like and store it till later. Give them an idea sheet with recipes for lots of goodies that use it- with a purchase.

Those are some nice apples. :drool You might ask the ext service what diseases are a problem in your area. Then see if your favorites are more tolerant/resistant or weak about those diseases. They are likely to promote newer varieties, but you can still find out basic info from them.

I don't know if you have had a garden before, but some plants like growing in the heat, others prefer cooler weather. Your best bets now might be buying starts of tomatoes, peppers, squashes, melons and maybe eggplants, and beans. Towards the end of summer, you can plant stuff that likes...

Bee- Your place is gorgeous. I have farm envy. :tools That clover seems to be good stuff.

Thanks for the tip.

Thank you Bee and Henrietta, I talked to him today about it and he says he is not allergic to the stuff. I guess I remembered wrong. I grew up not reacting to poison ivy, but I'll still be cautious, since I developed other allergies since then. Washing the rubber gloves afterwards makes sense...

There is poison ivy growing on the fence line where I need to plant. My garden is too small to let an otherwise great spot go to waste. I was going to use this fence to support food plants and maybe even grapes, then realized what that vine was... This is an organic garden, so no chemical...

Obsessed- Your inbox is full. The envelope was mailed yesterday. Would you like seeds for anything? I might have some that you would like.

HunkieDorie- I was hoping it was. Thanks.

If you have any zoos nearby, you could ask for a little of the used bedding from the wolf, coyote or mountain lions cage for your garden. That would smell scary to the deer. Don't do this too close to your house of course. :sick fixed typo