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This has been my experience as well, and although I must admit started plants I've bought at my local Home Depot have been very disappointing; I've had much better experience with Lowes started plants and they have more interesting varieties. As for seeds, Im pretty partial to Johnny's because...

That's a great project! I love my raised beds. Make sure you include space for a table and chairs so you can relax amongst your plants. Our raised beds make a sort of outdoor room, and we really enjoy it during the summer: Phyllis

No, you shouldnt give up your dream, but yes you do need to know what's in the ground and were it is. Anytime you need to dig into a yard for a big project it requires some prework to identify where your utilities might be located. This is an extremely important safety step that you really...

Same thing with us - in the past 10 years we've taken down over twenty "trash trees" because they were either dangerous, ugly or both. Rampant unchecked tree growth is not nessarily a good thing. Here is Mass. we had a terrible ice storm last month, and a friend of mine spent $4,200 to take...

I just got the latest Seeds of Change catalog, and this year they have Cumin seed for starting. We use this quite a bit in our house, and the flowers look really pretty. Anyone have any exerience growing Cumin? It's evidently in the Nigella family so it looks like it might be fun to grow...

Oh be careful what you wish for! Many of us belong to Backyard Chickens too. Resistance is futile... ;) Phyllis

The probe itself collects the data, and it just plugs into a USB port and you upload from your PC or Mac to the EasyBloom web site. Phyllis

Kale and Brccoli Rabb for sure! I started seeds end of February, transplated early March ans we had fresh greens by Mid April. We also planted asparagus last year so that will be coming up too this spring by April. We belong to a CSA as well in addition to our own veggie gardening. Phyllis

Here you can see the monitor stuck into a pot of rosemary that lives inside during the winter: This is what the monitor data looks like after I uploaded it to the EasyBloom website: The program also recoomended other indoor plants that could live in this location: When the spring comes...

DH gave me an EasyBloom garden monitor for Christmas. Its a USB enabled gardening monitor that you install in your garden or in your houseplants and it reads the local conditions (light water, humidity), w which you can download to your PC. We have a potted rosemary plant that lives inside...

I do a lot of seed starting because I really enjoy the process (it's just what I need after a long winter!) and I can grow things such as Broccoli de Raab that I'd never find as started plants. The big guys like Johnny's and Seeds of Change have kept me pretty happy. I think a lots of...

Simple Gifts Farm has a terrific e-book for $9.95 from that covers crop rotation, intercropping and succession plating for intensive gardening. It has an easy to use crop rotation schedule, as well as lots if information about intercropping and succession platning. There is even a formula to...

I have not heard of GMO seeds being sold for the home gardening market, only for agri-business production. As for the whole Frankenfoods issue, a few weeks ago I heard the CEO of Monsanto interviewed on NPR, and he made a solid case for GMO from his perspective. Basically, he said that water...

Yup - usually right before your first frost date. Here in MA (zone 6) that's around the end of October. Ours did some sprouting during a Janaury thaw last year, but they still turned out just fine. ~Phyllis

Those are nice ! ...of course I will have to color coordinate them with my other gardning gear!:rolleyes: ~Phyllis

Well, I have this wonderful hat and depending on the weather I wear either a pair of Birkenstock gardening clogs with removeable cork insoles (15+ years old, much abused and still going strong) or Wellie knock-off boots from Costco. One thing I might do next summer is make mystelf a nice...

When we did our renovation we hired a landscape architect, and it was money well spent. We used him mostly for the front yard and driveway, but he did give us a preliminary plan for our veggie garden, which we did change but his first pass was still helpful. His name is Mike Immel . Our house...

I did some research and idscovered these eggs come from Braconid wasps, a large family of insects that have several parasitic species. They look pretty look much this: So if you see caterpillars that looks like this, consider yourself lucky! ~Phyllis

I found the very same! The parasite eggs were white and about the size of rice grains. The hornworm had dozens on it, or what was left of it; basically it was just a shriveled up husk. My daughters had a good time checking it out under a microscope. ~Phyllis

Those are so pretty! I'd love to grind my own cracked corn for our chickens.