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I admire your spirit of adventure in growing and distilling lavender oil! I keep adding Lavender plants that I get on sale to form a short hedge border around my herb garden. They seem to be mostly Hidcote varieties. I have one Provence lavender. All my lavender is heavily pruned following...

Name of my Silver Laced Wyandotte, which ended up being the nastiest chicken I have ever owned! She seemed so sweet as a chick. Anyhow, when choosing names I saw a french lady on tv with the name and it sounded like silver so I used it for her and my login name. I use it for 3 of the 4 forums...

Grosso Lavenden is grown in France for oil; http://www.lapaixherbfarmproducts.com/France%20Lavender%20&%20Essential%20Oil.html They grow this over other Lavenders for many reasons, including disease resistance. http://www.mountainvalleygrowers.com/lavendercareandtips.htm States Vera lavender is...

Is it possible to grow Jicama in NE Ohio, zone 5 and get fair sized tubers? Has anyone in a northern state or Canada had success?

I called to sign up last October and the class for March 2010 was already filled before the announcement. The next class is in 2012 which won't do me much good because from what I've read the world is ending that December. :rolleyes: I thought the fees were surprisingly high for training for a...

They dropped Red Green from our local PBS affiliate. Our library has an interloan system and I can get Red Green movies and a certain degree of weekly episodes. Ducks4you-- hahaha- I must be connecting with the same ext., lol! What talkers! And on my dime because I am long distance from...

I have had some elderberry wine made by a fruit winery in Ohio that was fantastic tasting. I can see Elderberry as a fruit juice for colds. I think a combination of fruit juices, like elderberry, blackberry, blueberry, cherry and what ever else you have would provide all the fruit anthocyanins...

Thanks Steve! That looks like what I want. You always amaze me with how you find these sources. I have looked for years!!!! :thumbsup

I love yellow split peas for many recipes and wondered if anyone has a source for seeds? Bright orange yellow like the commercial grocery split peas are what I am seeking. I bought every yellow split pea offered in Seedsaver's membership catalog and none were yellow. I wasn't pleased about...

Eating all you want and exercising works well only in the beginning. Then the body adapts to this, leaving you with the choice of cutting back on food consumed or beginning over-exercising. I was an over exerciser until I began getting injuries and then I had to face the music and cut the...

You are probably right. I am at the edge of a large track of woods by a river. I won't have a chance at those chestnuts now that they know about the tree. Want some nice prickly empty burrs?

Well, it can't be the same squirrel unless you find my chestnuts in there! It carries them off burrs and all! I have found empty burrs hundreds of feet away in the woods. :P

Big enough to strip the tree! :D It is a gray squirrel. And I'm not going to eat it - if that's your next suggestion......lol!

Thank you, injunjoe. I guess I'll have to wait and take my chances.

I have a chinese chestnut full of large green burrs. Last year the squirrels made off with most of my nuts. Can I pick the green burrs to beat the squirrels? I'm probably 2 or so weeks from the burrs falling to the ground.

My winter savory has been outdoors for 4 years. Zone 5 and sometimes zone 4, snowbelt on Lake Erie. This year has been it's best.

Sycamore. The bark of the tree comes off in irregular layers as the tree's defense against climbing vines like poison ivy or English ivy.

You can make these fairly cheaply with the 6" square holed mesh used for concrete and a roll of plastic. I priced a 50' roll of the wire mesh for $50. It's about 3' high. Our plant nurseries make and use them for tunnels.

We didn't get below50 last night, so no frost! I don't have any tender plants that I am concerned about- the drought did a number on most of the garden at this point.

We may have frost tonight. Forecast possibly in the upper thirties, so we have a 50/50 chance of frost.