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I was told you don't want to plant anything that requires a lot of watering. You don't want to add extra water to your drain field. Our drain field is between our big garden and our house so we put our raised beds on top of it. The main purpose was to keep people from driving over our drain...

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If you don't want to use pesticide and you haven't planted yet you can pour boiling water on the beds. That will get rid of them for now. Let me know if DE works to prevent them, I fight them all year long.

It is my understanding that to get good fruit you usually have to use a graphed tree, but I may be wrong.

I have the space to grow enough, but we just moved onto this property last year and I haven't had enough time to get the garden into the best shape yet. Currently the garden is 50'x75', plus I have 10 3'x6' raised beds, so not quite 4000 sq ft. Plus I have about an acre set aside for fruit...

The kids had green scrambled eggs and green milk for breakfast. DH took one look and said he'd pick something up on his way to work!:gig For supper we are having Irish Soda bread, green salad (with lettuce, sprouts, cucumbers, peppers, avocados, broccoli, and broccoflower), and spaghetti...

Beautiful!!

One year my mom found a bunch of silverware at a yard sale and engraved the plant names on them with an engraver tool. It was kinda fun seeing all those spoons, knives, and forks sticking up at the end of each row.

I've done it at the last two houses we lived at. I don't like spending time and money on decorations. I have a limited amount of both and would rather they go toward something that I can eat. Besides, you can make a vegetable garden look just as beautiful as a flower bed.

I really wanted to try the San Marzano this year, but didn't get any ordered. My husband hates store bought tomatoes and when we go out eat always asks them to leave off the tomato. But he will eat a home grown tomato right off the vine. IMO, there is a huge difference between commercial...

I was going to say the same thing. I always have volunteers come up in my compost. Obviously my compost doesn't get very hot, but I'm surprised if it gets very dry.

I had never heard of a sky pencil so I had to google it. They look interesting, I might have to try to find a couple.

My name is Mandie, my last initial is G and I have 4 kids. Very unoriginal.

Gorgeous! Can you come fix mine now? ;)

Beautiful!

Raised beds are great for beginners because you can start with good soil right off the bat instead of building it up over the course of a couple years. The best advice I can give you is start small. A lot of beginners get excited and plant a huge garden, then get discouraged when things don't...

I'm a couple hours south of you and I usually wait until my son's birthday on April 12th. The guy at our local garden center always tells people to wait until tax day. Last year we got a couple inches of snow in the middle of March, so I'd wait just a couple more weeks. Or maybe just set out...

My indoor plants Tomatoes Such good help! I think that poor plant got transplanted at least a dozen times. My new greenhouse! These were taken before I got the ends put on. Best part is, I spent less than $30! Raised beds with garden in the background. I need to put some straw...

My bulbs are 75 watt equivalent bulbs. I couldn't find anything higher, so I wrapped two sides of my shelf with tin foil, the third side is open to an east facing window (the only window I have available), and the forth side is open. My plants seem to be doing great and not too leggy.

They look great! I planted mine about 3 weeks ago then we got several inches of rain and drowned them all. I have yet to get peas to grow here in the south, but each year I try.