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I spent the better part of last summer completely digging up the previous owner's totally neglected rock garden. I pulled up every rock I could find. While digging, I unearthed a little section of concrete path, but it was below the soil line. So I used the rocks I dug up to line the path to...

Oh, definitely to take home and pot. My presentation wasn't anywhere near as good as chicken_boy's. Just stuck in a wet paper towel and then into a zip lock bag. We had taken some of my interested, but gardening challenged, in-laws on the garden tour and pointed out, in particular, the...

When we were kids, we just picked them up off the ground. Be careful, the husks around the actual nut, if you aren't familiar with black walnuts, will stain very badly. Really badly. They used to be used as a natural dye (and probably still are). And the nuts are one of the hardest nuts to...

chicken boy, what do you do with the dried roots?

Gorgeous garden! I am envious!

Ahh, Beefy! You need to borrow my children. They are very good at redirecting Mom when she is hypnotized by the garden center at Home Depot!

they are day lilies.

We had a whole buncha people over for the fourth of July and I had put a bunch of mints, lemon balm, scented geraniums and basil in vases a week or so before. Several people went home very happily with herbal party favors! Just a suggestion for those who have too much.

What Patandchickens described is how my father used to do his tomatoes. It was pretty orderly, for tomatoes.

Keep up with the weeds and get started on the chicken coop! Chicks scheduled to arrive in 15 days!

I am pretty sure that the one I am remembering is staghorn sumac. Poison sumac, I was surprised to learn (just now on the internet), is far more poisonous than poison ivy, and grows almost exclusively in swampy or flooded ground. I don't know that I have ever seen it. And I hope I never do...

13/4 cups white flour 3/4 cup sugar 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder 3/4 teaspoons salt 1 egg 1/4 cup canola oil 3/4 cup milk 1 cup blueberries mix dry ingredients. add egg, milk, oil. Stir just barely enough to mix. Add blueberries. Stir just enough to mix. Spray 12 muffin cups with Pam...

I want a sumac too for sentimental reasons! We had one next to my back porch when I was a kid. We played with the long sticks left when the leaves fell off. We had one come up in a bed and I was going to keep it and my husband insisted it be pulled out because he was worried that it would...

They will definitely die back if they get too dry in the summer, but bounce back bigger and better in the spring!

I love the way geraniums smell. They remind me of my childhood. when I was really small, maybe 7, I used to hang around with the really old lady next door and she showed me how to propagate geraniums. It was the first plant that I was taught how to grow.

That's kind of what I was picturing in my mind.

I don't remember! Its been a couple of years since I ordered any seeds.

We used to have a bunny, and when my DH would clean out the cage, I would have him put the poopy litter in a new bed (or an old bed, not in current use). Very fertile beds result. Giving them 2-3 months sounds perfect.

Also see the thread "favas, great cover crop". This might work really well for you.

I think I will plant favas in the raised bed I am building this summer. I don't plan to plant any food crops there until next year.