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I have an oregano plant that I was given three years ago. It was a shovel-ful, dug from another garden. I plopped it into my herb garden, all the way at one end. Now it's taking over. I find oregano not only popping up in the herbs next to it, but also three and four feet away, on the far side...

Wow, you're past the frost date already?? We're in upstate NY (not far from Albany), and we never trust the weather until the end of May. Partly because we have way too much garden to cover if it does frost. You don't mention hardening off your plants before planting outside - you have done or...

Nothing today as it is raining (finally - it's been way too dry lately). But I got my seed potatoes and onion sets today, all ready to go in when the weather clears. In the past few days we've put in 50 asparagas plants, blueberries, black raspberries, two elderberry plants. Indoors we've...

It happens every year - we start our indoor plants, they sprout in record time, look great, and grow like crazy. But they shoot straight up and never get thick stems. For instance, my tomato seedlings are five to six inches tall and they don't even have their true leaves yet, only the ones they...

Shredders are wonderful!!! We just bought one this winter, that hooks onto the power takeoff on our smaller tractor, and this spring we shredded all the tree limbs that came down over the winter, the apple tree limbs we pruned, and scrap lumber that had been hanging around because it was too dry...

Not to worry - did y'all know there's a child's picture book devoted to the topic of poop? Well, there is - drawings of all different kinds of poop - fish, elephant, horse, dog, cat, people, etc. Maybe instead of the old folks' home, we'd be candidates for nursery school!

Hey, it's SPRING!!!!! Last week I started (indoors) my broccoli, cauliflower and leeks. This week I did the peppers (sweet and hot). This weekend, we put in the lettuce, spinach, beets, peas, radishes, scallions, and bok choy. I never grew the last two before, it's this year's adventure! Two...

Yep, nothing like homegrown! We haven't bought a vegetable in three years - instead we bought a second freezer! We have an old upright in the basement, a chest freezer in the living room, and the one that's part of the refrigerator. We grow it, pick it, blanch it, freeze it, and eat it all...

Planting?? I'm delighted that I have a 15 foot diameter area of snow-less ground in the middle of my yard. Almost nowhere else on our 60 acres is yet snow free. HOWEVER - I have snowdrops up and blooming, appropriately enough, right through the snow! And my crocuses are up tho not yet budding...

Hi, I don't personally put my chickens in the garden, but I go out about 7 am on summer mornings, when the sun is up but the air still cool (if you're an insect). I walk up and down between my pole beans with a plastic container (with a lid) and knock the Japanese beetles off the leaves into...

How jealous am I??? You're tilling and prepping for an asparagas bed, and we're looking out the window at 2 1/2 feet of snow, with temps in the teens (daytime highs, mind you) for the weekend. Dang!:hit

I'll have to check that out. We have lots of viburnum-type plants growing in our woods and along the edges of the fields...might be easier than cranberries, if the flavor is close enough. I know nothing about growing cranberries, so any information is welcome. Thanks for your input!

Chickens and gardens - what a great combination! I'm hensonly on BYC - but two of my pullets turned out to be roos, so maybe I should change my name!

Hey, all, Every year we plant a lot of the same stuff, but we also pick a couple new things to try. We haven't decided what to do new in the vegetable garden, but I'm thinking about trying cranberries in my newly dug (last fall) area. According to the catalog, I'll need to remove the top 6...

Yep, I love Johnny's, too. We've ordered from them for over 15 years, and we've planted a packet of spinach seed on the third year after we bought it, and gotten a tremendous germination rate. Johnny's has a good selection, too, and even though they're in Maine, they carry varieties that will do...

Lots of nurseries have rhubarb for sale. We use Johnny's Selected Seeds (in Maine) and have had wonderful luck with their plants/seeds. HOWEVER you should check with your local extension office or do some research, because rhubarb does not do well in hot climates. I have access to rhubarb - my...

I have chickens this year for the first time, too. Last fall I spread the coop cleanings around in the garden. Our tiller is on the tractor, and tills to a depth of about one foot - that should be enough to keep 5 or 6 month old chicken poo from burning the plants, right? I also have a new...

Please tell me how you did that!! :hu I had horses in my long-ago youth, mom used the poop on her garden, and boy, did we get weeds! Maybe it depends on what the horses are eating; it's possible that when they were on hay all winter, they were ingesting hayseeds, but in summer when they were...

HI, I have a bunch of recipes I really want to try, but many call for rose water. I've never seen it for sale anywhere. I Googled it, but it seems to be used mostly as a cosmetic, and I'm not sure how the edible variety differs. Does anyone know about rose water? HOw to make it (not that I...

I love tarragon on pork. It doesn't need a ton of it, but I use sage, thyme, and tarragon together on pork chops or pork roast or pork tenderloin. Sometimes instead of tarragon I use a small amount of rosemary, but either way - YUM!