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HI, I'm in upstate NY (15 miles north of Albany), and my mom has a huge rhubarb patch. Totally organic, and regularly produces over 100 lbs of rhubarb a year. I will be digging some roots this fall to transplant into my permanent bed. I'd be happy to dig you some, too. Probably the end of...

Put that sauce over angel food cake, too - it's to die for!

Not stupid at all... I have several rhubarb recipies, pie, jam, cake/muffins, and another cake recipie. Happy to share, just let me get them all together, and I'll post again!

I harvest mine when it looks like spinach! Seriously, I just cut outer leaves, a few from each plant, as soon as it looks big enough to eat. My spinach harvest typically lasts a month or so, depending on the weather. I sometimes (depending on how crazy my life gets) do a second planting in maybe...

I've also read that asparagas needs to be side - dressed every year. Is that so? Anyone know?

Yep, sounds familiar - here in upstate NY, our biggest crop is rocks. Our vegetable garden has been in place for nearly 20 years, and we still spend two days spring and fall picking rocks. Thank God we till the thing with the tractor! Weeding by hand is quite enough! BTW, we just tilled a new...

Be of good cheer, my pole beans suffered the same attack, but they came back and were fine. It just took longer. Hope yours survived!

Take the picture of the critter to your local cooperative extension office - they can likely ID it for you and tell you how to foil its nefarious plans. For some bugs, they climb onto your plants at certain times (morning or evening, or when the dew is on, etc), and if you water about that...

You have my sympathy - last year we lost our entire corn crop in two days to the crows, almost as soon as it sprouted. We ordered some "flash tape" and replanted. Didn't lose one single seedling that time!!! This year, we started three flats indoors in deep cell trays. Transplanted them...

Hi, I have a raised bed against the south side of the house, so I have really good luck with herbs as far as wintering over and starting early in the spring, for my climate. I've only started herbs here for two summers, and the soil leaves a lot to be desired, but as I plant new things I add...

When my parents bought their current house, I was just turning four, and the lawn was so overgrown that the "grass" was higher than my head! But when we finally got it mowed, there was a rhubarb bed in the middle. Yippee! So I grew up eating rhubarb, and now, finally, I have a place for a bed...

Hi, I got some lemon bergamot seeds for Christmas, planted them, they are doing well, but I don't know what to do with it now! I don't have a lot of herb books, but I can't find it in any of them. It's kind of viney, with a purplish underside to the green leaves, so it's pretty, but as it's in...

Do you mean just the lemon balm and mint in the water? no "regular" tea, and use the lemon and mint for flavoring? I assume you strain out the chunks of leaves before drinking? It sounds really good, except the only mints I have at present are catnip and spearmint.

Yep, me too! I got some lemon balm seeds in a kit of herb seeds for making teas, that I was given for Christmas. I now have two clumps in my herb garden that looked so tiny and vulnerable when I put them out. Deceptive little buggers! I keep my catnip and spearmint in pots, didn't know I should...

Mints have to be from plants, not seeds? I have grown my own catnip and spearmint from seed, and they seem fine. Or do you mean that the plants I grew won't produce seed that will come true? The cats really like their catnip, but the spearmint is just a baby, not ready for harvest, though the...

HI, I've seen that plant too, never paid it any mind as it gets mowed with the rest of the lawn...I'll have to watch out for it, try to save it so I can see if it's the same. Guess there's no such thing as a weed! For bug bites and other itches, we break a stem of jewel weed (touch-me-not) and...