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I just tried the damp paper towel in plastic bag method Sunday evening and last night I had two roots sticking through the shell and quite a few more swollen peas (mind you this was after 2 days). So I would definitely say this method works. I am a little nervous about how they are going to do...

Thank you guys! Removed the mulch from my plants (sorry its been so long since I've posted - had lots of family visiting & get togethers these past two weeks). I just wanted to tell you all my tomatoes are doing splendidly!! They have started bushing back out and (with a little help...

Okay... so it was looking better last night... Do I still need to get rid of it? As for the mulch I am using Preen Mulch Plus "Midnight Black" in the yellow bag... I can use any kind of mulch for veggies right? As far as the bugs I have seen a few beetles but none up in the garden, most of...

Okay my squash and zucchini were AWESOME (well mostly) when I left for work this morning. When I get home one of them is like this... All the other ones are fine, (well one does have one side w/ leaves turning a tad brown, but otherwise very healthy and I am finally starting to get mini...

Do these pictures help? I was not quite sure how to describe it. They bushed out a very tiny bit but I trimmed back some when I poured in more dirt. I also took off all the rotten tomatoes and disposed of them (not in the compost). Again, not all of the plants are unhealthy, but about one...

I honestly do not know if they are rotting... I was wondering that myself. My grandma said to throw some epsom salts in the buckets with them. I may perhaps try that. As for the lime, most of the soil is potting soil or garden soil so should I really need to add anything else?

We fry ours in vegetable oil, grill it w/ a bit of butter, and also bake it (glazed very lightly with butter). They also make fantastic casseroles.

Okay have taken some of the suggestions. 1) Put more dirt in and filled up until about 2 inches away from top or (if the plant did not reach up above the bucket top like 2 of my 12) only 20% of plant exposed. 2) Mulched the rest of the way of the bucket. 3) Put them at the edge of a couple...

We have all our tomatos planted in containers with clay and garden soil mixed together. Our plants really thrived the first part of this year and two weeks ago our first tomatoes starting appearing. Everything was going along well, and the tomatoes were getting bigger however things have...

That's what I'm thinking on the peas as well... it is getting very warm down here already - was in the high 80s (Fahrenheit) this week. So we'll see if these two make it & then try again this fall. I'd rather not use any pesticides. We'll see what we can do about fencing off the garden...

Gardens sort of... I read up on gardening as a child but never really got to do much of it. (My parents *hated* gardening and actually had the garden beds taken out and grass seed sown in one of the houses we lived at). Then a few months after we got married my husband and I moved out to the...

I planted carrots (twice now) and had ten sugar snap pea plants (now two) and these little guys are not doing well at all. The peas were doing great when I started growing them inside (early march) and when I transplanted them they did okay for a while, but then just started shriveling up and...