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We do this too - they are just about my favorite flower. One very pretty variety is "Emrpess of India:, which has dark red flowers and beautiful bluish green leaves. They bloom best in regular soil - too much fertility will give you lots of leaves and no flowers. Foruntately the leaves are...

Many thanks Carlos, that's good to know. Now that I think about it I do recall reading that it was more vulnerable than most tomatoes. I kept one for ourselves, and instead of it living out in the garden with the veggies I think I'll keep it near the house in a paved courtyard with the rest...

When I bought some heat mats off Ebay (good merchant BTW) the seller gave me a pack of Tiny Tim tomaotes, which evidently are small enough for pot culture. So here is what they look like as of today - on the left is a Brandywine, and on the right is Tiny Tim: Both of these were started...

I don't know anything myself about this topic, but my brother in law has a Koi pond, and his has a plastic liner. I'll also echo Tuttter's comments about predators - that's a big issue for my BIL. He lives in suburban VA (Fairfax) and he has netting over the water to deter racoons. One thing...

Ah - I envy your long daylight! I love cool season crops and I'd grow them all summer if I could. ~Phyllis

Hey we live in MA - Westwood to be exact, not far from you at all! We have baby chicks arrving June 18th and we do lots of veggie gardening. Welcome! :cool: ~Phyllis

I take ours into work and leave them in the lunch room - I gaurantee people will happily scoop up your extras! ~Phyllis

Hi Bill, We live pretty close to you - we're in Westwood, a MA south shore town next to Norwood. We have baby chicks arrving June 18th, and we also do lots of vegggie gardening. Welcome! This is a great site; lots of good people with much wisdom and humour to share. What do you like to grow...

This sounds interesting; I've never heard of this variety. What does it looks like? We :love cabbage ! ~Phyllis

It was planted under very tall Eastern White Pine.

We planted one, and it did really badly - it never thrived and we pulled it out after less than 5 years. Our mistake, I think, was too plant it too close to large mature trees, and their bigger roots just sucked up all the water. I think they're really beautiful shrubs - I love the spidery...

I remember reading somewhere that a lack of magnesium in the soil can do that. The clues, I believe, are yellowing leaves on an an otherwise healthy plant. Can't recall where I read it though... ~Phyllis

You can use row covers too.

:he:gig ~Phyllis

The eggs were white, and the caterpillar was black and fuzzy and it had no yellow that I could see (but it was still really tiny)

I wish I had a photo to share, but my camera won't do a good close up. I was transplanting Swiss Chard into the garden today, and on the undersides of the leaves found several sets of minute rice shaped eggs, laid parallel to each other in sets of 4-5 each. The were small, maybe 2mm each in...

I agree with everyone - there is a ton of composting info out there on the internet. The science behind composting is well-dcumented and over the years people have come up with a ba-zillion different ways of making bins, boxes, tumblers etc., so I think it's really just a matter of finding a...

While it's true that if it's a hybrid you won't get the same plant as the parent, you might as well give it a try because it might be fun! The question is how many of those seeds are fertile, which is an unkown given the condtions that they were produced under. I looked into seed saving at one...

I so agree with OCF - rasising your own seedlings is very rewarding, and you can grow varities that you just won't find in a graden center. I use heat mats and grow lights and I recommend them for cliamtes colder than zone 6 - we live in new Enlgand, and a gorw mat means I can start seeds when...

My thoughts exactly OCF; this applies to tomatoes as well. I also feel drip/bubbler irrigation is more efficient because there is less waste due to evaporation. ~Phyllis