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:yuckyuck It is called "theeasygardener" afterall... ;) I probably would have been too intimidated to ever join if the site was called "professionalhorticulturalistswhotakethemselvesextremelyseriously!" :P I also love how most of us have pumpkins with chicken battle scars... One of mine...

SCG- Try covering the pumpkin up. I've read some articles that say most of the big pumpkin growers provide a shade or covering for their pumpkins because once the skin hardens from the sun it will quit growing. I have tented mine with a chicken feed bag and have noticed that it has kept the...

Peach Scorpion Pepper Jam... and Watermelon Rind pickles.

The fact that they are easily damaged makes me want to change my answer... A melon and a gourd would be able to make it in fairly difficult circumstances laying out on the ground. I don't bother to trellis any of the gourds (except luffa) because they are so heavy. I give them a pretty big...

The more I look at that picture, I just keep thinking gourd. I'm growing birdhouse gourds and bushel gourds, and it really reminds me of them... The shape seems similar to the apple gourd.

I didn't amp up the colors or tint on this... in fact I was tempted to tone them down so you don't have to wear welding goggles to view my vegetables! :D

lesa, that's a super smart wren!:)

Yes, a woman would totally do something like this... Two years ago I created a hanging basket tree because ONE dove couple took up residence in a planter basket that was hanging in a bay tree. I watched eggs become babies and had a dream one night about a hanging basket tree. The next morning...

Siam Queen is my favorite too! I use it for soup as well as my Thai Basil Beef. Try this: 2 Tb. oil (your choice of type) 1 lrg. cloves garlic minced 1/2 lbs. sliced tender beef (sometimes I get the stuff pre-cut for fajitas) or ground beef 1 or 2 (depending on how hot you like it) chopped...

dinkadoo- I looked at the Baker Creek site and they have it, but it is the Reisentomate (the Reisentraub is more of the traditional cherry tomato type)... what it looks like is that all these sites are taking pictures of 2 or 3 tomatoes clustered together upside down. On the Amishlands she...

Jennifer- It feels kind of like pulling grapes from the stem. Each one is anchored to that one central stem, though. As you pull them off, none of the other tomatoes move. That's what gives it that look of a scored pie after someone has removed a slice or two. The sections are heart shaped...

I read somewhere to make sure it was potting soil specifically for cactus.

Lesa- there was one segment that was a tiny bit less ripe than the others, but when I ate it I couldn't tell by taste. They grow upside down... with only the smooth marble sides showing, so when I first saw them they didn't look that interesting. So I watched the clusters of what looked like...

These things are called Voyage Tomatoes or Traveler Tomatoes... I ordered the seeds on a whim. The description wasn't very flattering, it said they looked like a brain. They are the most beautiful things, though! They don't look like a brain at all! They look like cherry tomatoes trying to...

Ha, ha! i just noticed the big giant seed in the middle of the picture of the jar. I guess I DIDN'T get all the seeds out! OOps! :bun

I grew the Opal last year with the same results & it never looked as pretty as the picture on the seed pkg. That Purple Ruffles is one of my favorites (it's supposed to be beautiful in a homemade bottle of herb vinegar, which I haven't tried yet.) I grow Purple Ruffles, Genovese, & Thai...

Alright I made sauce with them... Well, actually a mixture of Cherokee Purple, San Marzanos, & Martinos. I used a BH&G recipe for Tomato-Basil Simmer Sauce. Maybe I'm imagining it, but it seemed to thicken up a lot easier than when I just do paste tomatoes alone. The color was also a lot more...

Thistlebloom- they are in the tomatillo family. They look like marble size tomatillos and taste like various sweet fruits. Mine are a breed called Aunt Mollies Ground Cherries and taste like a cross between a cherry, pineapple, & grape. :drool

Hello- this is my first year planting them... but I did look for background info on harvesting them beforehand. The most interesting method I found was that some people will pull up the whole plant and let it dry out upside down. When the pod papers go dry the ground cherry is ready to use. I...

Update- My Pumpkin is now 34" around by 17 1/2" from stem to belly button (my pumpkin has one too!- I found that same little thing everyone else has been talking about hidden on the underside of it.) It has been growing at a rate of an inch or two around for the past five days. On the down...