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TY! :D Rusty

When I had hives in our commercial grove in Florida, we kept them in groups of 10 and planned 10 hives per acre of trees for pollination. At the end of the citrus season we moved them to the palmetto scrub. Moving hives from bee pasture to bee pasture in your area throughout the season is a...

Is this the book you mentioned? http://www.amazon.com/Sunset-National-Garden-Book-Books/dp/0376038608/ref=cm_cr_pr_pb_t If so, I may invest in a copy. I sure need something! Thanks! :thumbsup

I adore apricots. The local extension agent told me they don't grow in Alabama, but of course I had to try anyhow. I ordered a dwarf Wilson from Stark. Last spring it leafed out beautifully and was such a gorgeous little tree...until August. We had back-to-back days of 100 degrees. I...

Hmmmm. I went looking at your blog and he really does seem involved in your chickens and garden. It sure looks like he's already put in a lot of work, so I'm thinking that maybe you are taking this one comment too much to heart. We guys tend to run our mouths and expect it to roll off your...

I like a manure tea. Locally the bran comes in a plastic "burlap" bag (very loose weave with lots of good circulation), so when it is empty, I fill it with fresh horse manure and let the whole sack soak in a big bucket of water for about 24 hours. Then I remove the sack and use the resulting...

In my Organic Gardening book, they recommend mowing the bed with the lawnmower set high enough to miss the crowns but still get the leaves. I think I am gonna try that if I ever do get my strawberry bed. I had wanted a pyramid bed but my SO didn't because of this very issue with renewing the...

We're in the same zone, so I suppose that would be valid here as well. Frankly I cannot imagine those tiny vines supporting the weight of grapes yet, as they are barely 2 feet tall and very skinny. Thanks for the tip! Rusty :bouquet

I tried Thompson and Flame when I first got here, mainly because they were the only varieties available locally so I figured they must grow here, right? Wrong. They froze out that first winter. So next I planted one each of seedless Concord, Marquis, and Reliance. Got some leaves last year...

I *still* think this is a great idea and would look terrific right where I want to put it, but SO and I have developed "creative differences" over the execution. :tongue Oh, well. There's always next year. Rusty :mow

My sentiments exactly! Too big too soon takes all the fun out of it and once it becomes drudgery....there goes your success rate and with it your love of gardening. I think the tendency is to jump right in and try to grow everything in your first garden. Trouble is that each different plant...

Thank you for all your help with this, Pat! :thumbsup

I wonder if this is what happened to my tomatoes last year? I planted 30-40 romas and then about 10 beefsteaks. What I ended up with was a fruit that looked like a beefsteak except it was really small. Made the WORST tomato sauce I have ever tasted. I finally threw out the whole batch...

This is the general idea except that I didn't want it square (too hard to get the corners watered from a central sprinkler). My debate was whether to make it 6-sided or 8-sided. Tell your hubby for me that he's a genius. :bow These are exactly the figures I was trying to compute! As it...

FWIW I bought my Troybuilt Horse back in 1986 and it is still going strong. They sure know how to build 'em! Rusty

...or how I wish I'd paid attention in class! I have a yen for a strawberry bed, but my last venture was a disaster. The bermuda grass swallowed all my strawberries. So this time I thought I'd try one of those strawberry pyramid thingies...until my SO gently reminded me of my "expertise" with...

Gee, there sure aren't many of us! :/

Depending on where you live, prairie dogs are great for this. When I lived in Colorado, the only place I could have flowers was right around the house. LOLOL I planted blooming pansies one day down by the gate and the next morning there wasn't even a PLANT left. They dug them up and carted...

This is true for most hays BUT NOT BERMUDAGRASS. I mulched a strawberry bed with a bale of bermudagrass hay last year and never managed to pick a single strawberry because the grass took over the bed. The more I pulled it the faster and thicker it grew. It is the greenest part of my lawn this...

I'm Rusty Hills Farm over there, but I got lazy when I registered here and just used Rusty. :frow