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Okay, I've looked until my eyes are crossing. Somebody mentioned using ivory. Soooo... How about this ivory zinnia in the bed instead of the marigold? Or possibly the Tiger Eyes marigold in the bed and these zinnias in a corner on the deck as a contrast to all the peachiness since I cannot...

They went under the deck to the joists, which were not painted because you don't see them at all. When I repaint the deck this spring, I'm going to climb underneath and paint there too even though there is skirting all around the base of the deck. What a time we had last year. Piles of...

That purple mullet is really pretty. Too bad there is no room. I should have mentioned that the marigolds will go in front of a row of Burford Holly, which is why there isn't room for much more than a row of nice marigolds or zinnias in that bed. The holly bushes are young so there is still...

Found 2 more possibilities: Harmony has red with gold: and Tiger Eyes has red with yellow: Both have some dark red. It is enough dark red? I could add a few zinnias to the bed, also. (It's a small bed). What do you think? :D

Hmm...you both mentioned dark red. I am off to see what dark reds I can find! TY! :D

Is there a difference? The carpenter bees got so bad here and did so much damage to the frame of my deck that I had to kill them to save the deck. It broke my heart to do so, but I need that deck--it leads to my front door. Now I've been hearing that folks are using mason bees for pollination...

I am really not the best at designing color schemes but I want to "design" my front deck with a blend of peachy tones and I am having a hard time picking the last color. I want hanging baskets of petunias (2) of Petunia "Flambe": I want zinnias in the 2 window boxes and thought that this...

Like you, I could grow anything at the old farm in Florida. The soil was very sandy and I could throw the composted manure from the barn on there and toss in some seeds and have to beat back the plants! Here in Alabama the soil is also clay, plus my manure is full of bermudagrass seed, and now...

I am about to place my seed order and am wondering which way to go. Do the rest of you have trouble with Gurney's seeds or is it just me and something I am doing wrong? I seem to have much better luck with Park's seeds. Is it maybe location? I'm in Alabama and Park's in SC. I don't know...

This is homegrown compost from my barns. I feed bermuda because it is all that local farmers grow here. Bermudagrass is a pest plant in the home garden because it is next to impossible to kill off here. My manure pile heats up so well that you can see the steam rising on a cool day and I...

My own experience with horse manure in Florida was that it made heavenly compost all by itself. I thought I could do the same here in Alabama. No such luck. Hay here is bermudagrass hay and its seeds wind up in the compost. I let my pile sit for 2 years and then covered my garden with it...

Conditions are always a kick in the pants for me, too. The only successful gardens I've ever had were all in Florida. What worked there does NOT work in Alabama! We don't really have that huge growing season we appear to have. I got rotten weather all the way into May and by September an...

Well, the sleet is still falling. The whole day is wet and nasty. What better time to start thinking about next year's garden? I'm looking for recommendations and opinions on tomatoes and corn. I'm kinda leaning toward the new Whopper Improved from Park and maybe Sugar Buns for my main corn...

OH I hope you are right! They were the only things in this year's garden that were doing really great. Even my strawberries are not making it--again! But the blackberries produced a nice crop--for the deer. ;)

It was bad enough when the deer got the blackberries. At least they left me the blackberry bushes. Enter my grandson who decided to be helpful and, without my even having to ask, took the string trimmer and trimmed the bases of all the trees around my garden. Everything looks spiffy. Except...

Last year I planted 3 Arapaho blackberries along the outside of my dogs yard fence. They really took hold and put out lots of new canes last year. This year those canes were just full to overflowing with berries and I have watched with bated breath as they slowly ripened. I have had visions...

Small warning here: One year I tossed all my old vines on the compost pile at the end of the season instead of burning them. Didn't give it much thought. The next spring I spread a load of compost onto the front lawn and had tomato seeds sprouting everywhere! Moral of the story: Remember...

Tomatoes are heavy feeders. Yellow leaves may mean they need nitrogen. HTH Rusty

Okay, this is my THIRD year battling this infernal stuff. The first year it attacked my Bartlett pear, which hasn't produced a pear since. Last year it hit my apples, Red Delicious and Granny Smith. Both trees bloomed this year. I sprayed like crazy with a fire blight spray. Granny lost...

I'm no help because I don't know what they are called, just that they grow in Florida. They used to drive me crazy 'cause when you pull them--they STINK big time. LOL we just called them "Stink Vine". They are very plentiful and spread like crazy! Rusty