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It been about two months and the little fruit trees are doing quite well. There were some blooms but no fruit this year, which is just as well. I don't know if I would have had the heart to take them off. I sprayed them with dormant oil and I go out and hand pick forest tent catepillars...

Thank you all. Your compliments make me beam. I guess we all love being outside. I'm very thankful to have something I enjoy so much. This is my first veggie garden and I'm having a ball. I never would have thought I could be so proud of lettuce. :^)) Well, I only got the fence half done...

Some of my plants are actually big enough to show up on camera. Finally. I've always wanted to post on this thread, but never seemed ready. But here goes. I'm eating three kinds of lettuce (as are the rabbits) and spinach. The broccoli is looking good and the watermelons and summer...

Hi everyone, I'm sorry to say that I've had some experience with deer damage. Boy do I feel your pain and frustration. Manys the time I couldn't curse loud enough or throw the shovel far enough to get the anger off my chest after finding a lovely young tree tortured or mutilated by deer...

That sounds like good advice. I'll cultivate and hill-up the corn. Thanks DigitS and Vfem. I have lots of wind, but there isn't much I can do about that. COgirl, I saw that site and should have followed that design, but it just didn't look like much corn. I guess I got greedy. Keep us...

Yes, I think that is the right way to do it. You are starting the corn on the top of the hill to begin with. I read that the corn should be about a foot high before planting the beans and squash. Apparently I did it wrong. :/ I planted mine in a row. When corn is planted in a row do...

That is definitely artemesia, a terrible invasive weed that will spread like wild fire by the roots and by seed. I walk my land every year with a spray bottle of roundup and kill all that I find. It is one of the very few uses of "chemicals" that I have. I hate getting the plants that are...

We can commiserate all summer. What did you find out about hilling up your corn. I thought I was supposed to do something like that but had poor luck googling a discription of the process. Debby

I want to try the three sisters. This is my first garden and I'm sure I'll make lots of mistakes. Looks like the first one is to plant the corn for the three sisters in rows. I'm such a neat freak. I just like rows and didn't understand the importance of the hills. But I appreciate the...

Oh, I see that Growin already found it. I was in a hurry at work and didn't read all the posts. Sorry. Debby

I'm going to go way out on a limb here, but could it be a saxifrage of some kind? The leaves look like a stawberry saxifrage I had years ago. It is also called strawberry begonia or Saxifrage stonlenifera. It is hard for me to tell how big your plant is. Mine were very small. Less than...

Could that be cutworms? Put a paper cup, with the bottom cut off, around the stem at the soil level and push it down into the soil so the stem is protected by this cuff. These are usually put on when the plant is put in the ground. I'm not sure how big your plants are. You might have to cut...

I had that same result when I planted some Home Depot bulbs in the wrong season. I'm hoping after a year or two of rest, they gather their strength and start blooming again. We'll see. Debby

Bee balm is a mint and has the typical square stem. It's leaves are pointed, hairy and serrated. It is also stonleniforous and will virorously spread via runners. Here is a picture of some I put in last year. At about 3 o'clock in the picture you can see the dead stalks from last year. Note...

If you're still looking for a source of wildflower seeds, here are two more. Ernst. http://www.ernstseed.com/ Prairie Nursery. http://www.prairienursery.com/store/ GrowingVegiesInSC you mentioned the natives and my ears perked up! I love that subject and not all wildflowers are native...

I've done that before. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Just get them in the ground ASAP and keep them watered. I've even had daffodils do well when I was forced to plant forty of them in the spring. I wouldn't recommend trying that a home, kids. :) But it worked that time and...

I haven't been very active, so perhaps I shouldn't say, but I would love to have a ponds and watergarden section to WADE about in. Lurking isn't very helpful, I know, but it sure is informative and fun. So I would like to vote for a pond section. ALSO: I would contribute heavily to a...

Oh thanks, I'll see if I can give that a try. Debby

I selected thumbnail on that step when uploading the image. They I tried using the thumbnail url and the other one when inserting the picture. The first gives me the dreaded red X picture and the later gives me a large very blurry image with extremely low resolution. What I'm hoping for is a...

I'm having trouble creating a thumbnail on my page. Is there anyone out there who can help me? I can upload the image and I can post it to the page as is, but I can't seem to find an answer in help as to how to make a thumbnail out of it. Debby