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Sending good energies for your "rock garden corn" :coolsun Steve. I didn't plant any corn this year . Smut got last years crop and I was kind of dis-heartened. Need to plant some next year, if only for dry corn. Does that Painted Mountain corn make as colorful a flour as it does decoration? henry

The package for the Pintos said 'semi runner' and I failed to correlate that to needing vertical room. They grow like pole beans so I gave them a piece of bamboo to climb and so far most are climbing. Learn somethin' new everyday :)

I have planted much in flats for transplant into the garden, corn included. I find I get a better growth in almost all I grow and know the plants will grow with the right care. All my stuff is planted very close together in double dug raised beds and this is a way of planting without having to...

Well I put handrails for Gnomes around the potatoes and they seem to appreciate the help (the potatoes not the gnomes.) Everything else seems to be making a comeback, but not up to their previous standard. I fell for you Steve with the weather up there. I lived in the NE Kingdom of VT for a...

Oh, I'm sorry And Congradulations! 4 on your anniversary, may you share another 50 and always be best friends.:rose

I know about the getting back up. My trouble is I don't have enough containers. I've double dug my raised beds and up to almost 600 square feet. Putting in a raised herb garden. If I could just talk Mother Nature into quit knocking things down:he

Planted 100 bean plants today. 50 Tendergreen and 50 Soy. Was going to wait a bit longer and let them all get their second set of leaves, but Mother Nature came through with a vengence last nite and decided to throw my flats around. As I picked the little beans up off the ground, I decided to...

Seems any of the vermin' my cat don't get, get an incurable lead poisoning ; ) Can't figure out what causes that.

best treatise on composting is IMHO by Joseph Jenkins and has an online link to his book for free. I guess when I'm a member in good standing I can post the link without it being spam. Though it has to do with "night soil" it is a very interesting read. Simple, no turning, build on 1 pile each...