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Jordan it just ain't fair for you to be able to grow such beautiful things when you don't even like them! You know, mu hubby didn't eat alot of veggies before we met and I started cooking for him. Now he loves them! I bet one day ( a very long time from now for the sake of your folks) a very...

I am very computer stupid Nifty so I had to read that twice before half of it came across as english to me. I still don't quite understand how it all works, but none- the- less I get that this is a very good thing! I know that just my home pc uses a ton of power so I can imagine that whatever...

Will there be a gardens link with pics like the coops over on BYC? We could have a section for containers, raised beds, small plots and large gardens. Maybe next year even a contest of some sort for the prettiest garden or the most ingenious one. And I love the pic of the week over there of the...

MMMMMMM.... I want a dinner with fried green tomatoes, yellow squash cooked with onion and butter and peach cobbler for dessert. I'll cook if you and your granny provide the ingrediants! :D

Thanks Y'all! We have a small pond in the backyard and I think a couple would look pretty neat out there during the long summer we have. I will go check and see what was at the Plant Shed. :)

Does the dwarf variety you mentioned produce fruit? Here in North Central Texas I could not plant one in the ground, but if the dwarf varieties can produce fruit I'd love to have a couple in huge pots. My DD is a banana nut!:P She would think it so neat to grow our own bananas! I have seen some...

The sweet potato is looking really pretty. I may just leave it in a glass there on the kitchen window sill so I can pluck leaves for the little piggies any time. I don't think they eat the actual potato, just the leaves. I gotta try the carrot thing too now. Both the chickens and the the...

Thanks Nifty! I love this feature over on BYC. I am spoilt to this feature and it sure came in handy just now on my potato post! :happy_flower

Recently we added a couple of guinea pigs to our family of critters. I was reading a list of things they liked to eat to my Mom and MIL and sweet potato leaves were on the list. My MIL had been to the store that morning and had sitting on the counter a sweet potato by coincidence. My Mom...

For really quick and simple, yet tasty try this: Slice and cook in skillet with a little butter and onion. Add salt and pepper to taste.

Oakland you are a wealth of information! I always learn something from your answers. :) I was always told that the suckers drew nutrients away from the branches bearing fruit because there are no blooms or 'maters on the sucker branches. Therefore, they had me picking them off way back when I...

Wowzers, I'd love to go "shopping" on your property! :P Everything looks so tasty! I sincerely hope your grandma has also passed on the wisdom of perserving all that wonderful food to you!

Well I have discovered half of my problem- neighborhood male cats! They are "spraying" my plants! :duc I'm sure that has something to do with the stunted growth- my radishes stopped growing too. As for the eaten tops, literally the pot was bare- like nothing had ever been planted there to...

:coolsun Wow! What a pretty garden you have going there! Woo- Wee if you did all that by hand I bet you'd be a dangerous young man with a roto tiller! :) Keep up the fabulous work and tell your grandparents that alot of people think they have an exceptional grandson! Lea

I'm having carrot troubles so thought I'd post them here in the official carrot thread. I planted Danvers half long seeds in cotainers 6 weeks ago with Miracle Gro potting soil. They sprouted some time ago and the tops grew up about 3" tall within a few weeks and they just seem to of stalled...

For some reason or another I always end up getting a new plant every spring. I just keep it in a pot and while they do bloom and produce. It is the tiny berries, not even a bites worth and only a few. Most of them are rotten on the bottom from laying against the soil. I keep them in a good...

Thanks, I was wondering because my Mom had an accidental fall crop a couple of years ago. They grew in her compost pile. Of course they stayed nice and warm there all winter. LOL. I just thought maybe I would try my luck with them this fall. I have never actually grown potatoes and it looks fun...

Since this thread was already on potatoes I thought I'd post this question here. Does anyone plant potatoes in the fall as well?

Very cool idea! I think the beans on top would be neat just so long as you didn't end up with the vines growing so thick they shaded the tomatoes.

My tomato's have been through some pretty rough storms this week and did fine. Maybe just move the pots up against the house if you can when it storms in the future. I don't think you have to actually bring them indoors. I do move my smaller pots with seedlings under the cover of the porch, but...