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The horse pucky is the source of nitrogen. If you can get it composted, then it will work better for this year's crops. Otherwise, pile it for next years, where you can mix it with garden and kitchen trimmings, and let it mellow out.

Hello! I'm new to the flowers & roses part here, but somewhat more familiar on the vegetable garden side. Here's our problem, and maybe you have a suggestion: There's a bad black spot problem this year on our roses. At least on 50 or 60 of the plants. Usually, I'd use something nasty toxic...

What ever you do, mix the compost and dirt well. The nutrients will be spread around, and the composting should speed up some. You'll want to add the nitrogen, too, so the manure will be of value. With as much as you're wanting to do, see if you can find some 'horse people', who often have...

Those barrels make pretty good raised beds for gardening veggies. Takes very little time to plunk one down where it gets water and sun, and dump in a bag of potting soil, and plant something from the nursery. And if they need moving, well, then you start to worry... :/

Do you dry your garlic in the ground? Or hanging up?

With pickles, you don't have to do them every year. We used to do a huge batch every other year, when the kids were small. They grew up on hot garlic dills. Now, about every third year suffices. You need to have enough to make it worth while to do the whole process. And it is a big process.

It's raining here again today, and expected tomorrow, and Thursday, too. Normally, we get our last real rain for the season in mid- to late-April. And plant tomatoes 1 May or so. Mine went in in mid-March, when we had some time and a dry week. They are doing very well, 24" tall and strong...

Shade cloth? On poles, so it can be removed easily. You just want to cut down on the solar gain. Several summers back, we had some seriously hotter summer temps than normal. Easily ten degrees higher than the normal highs. We managed to save most of the tomatoes because we could shade them...

But there's nothing growing in them? Where's the fun of that?:rolleyes:

Days to harvest for me means that I get my first tomatoes the week of the Fourth of July. No matter, really, when we plant, the first varieties are there in limited numbers that week. This year, I got mine in early. And then another couple of rounds later. All are up, strong, some are...

Here, there's a community college with an active gardening & greenhouse program. While they do a serious landscape architecture program, there's a lot of focus on home gardeners for the suburbs, as well as the ag program for the more remote corners of the county. They are also a good source.

We do about 24 tomato plants a year here in raised beds and pots. The cages are made of wire used for reinforcing concrete pours. It's 60" wide (tall), with 6" or 8" squares, rolled into 'tubes' about 30" in diameter. I bought this at the hardware store, and have been using it for at least...

I plant mine in 4'x8' raised beds. Two across, 3 or 4 down, depending on whether I've got other stuff there at the ends. So maybe 24" apart. These are in the re-wire cages. I bought this at the hardware store in a large roll, 60" wide/tall, and who knows how long the roll was. One roll has...

I've heard it said that some potatoes are treated with an anti-sprouting solution for market purposes. If you used potatoes from the grocer, that may be part of the problem. Now seed potatoes, you should not have had a problem. Here, I don't have enough space in the garden or in the storage...

My question would be "How far do you want to bend down?" As I get older, the bending down is the easy part. The standing back up is the challenge. My beds are 2x12 redwood slabs, stood vertically into 4x8 boxes. They get filled to the top with loosened soil each season, and that compacts...

I'd forgotten about those! We did some back 6 or 8 years ago, and they did fine. The melons were small, when looked at from the perspective of commercial watermelons, but that's great for us. They were about muskmelon (commercial cantaloupe) sized. And the foliage was beautiful. Thanks for...

One of my sons and his wife got involved with a community garden project for a while, and had a lot of fun with it. It sits in the public park area, near a softball field, and has been running for decades. They raised a lot of vegetables there, and the dirt was well worked. The rec department...

We tore out the front yard maybe ten years ago. It was a funky lawn that was a stopping place for folks walking their dogs anyway. The drainage was bad, and the walkways funky. It's in roses and patio now, with a huge split leafed maple tree providing shade. But there are places where I'm...

At least half the fun of tomatoes is giving away some that taste WAY BETTER than what you get at the local grocer...:D

You may also want to see if your local county ag agent has an opinion to share on your question. My BIL is one in Arizona's program, and he's a treasure trove of all sorts of wonderful information. He'd know what, where and how to get the best chance of success. And it's likely cheap to free...