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I want to be a grandkid. You guys have all the fun!!

It may well be the area. We've gotten some hot, sunny days, but mostly it's pretty dismal. My husband was able to grow his Carolina Reapers (from a healthy sized purchased plant) to enormous trees by keeping them in my grow tent. I wonder if I could make regional peppers a breeding project.

Today's gardening project was getting the hydroponics kit my mother in law gave me going. You fill it with water and plant food, insert pre seeded sponges, and the little machine does everything else. Fascinating!

That's a wonderful idea. I think I may try it.

Thank you for the tips! I could probably be more familiar with soil types. what can I do to make my soil more mineral based? Right now I imagine it's pretty heavy in organic materials, thanks to the abundance of chicken compost, vegetable compost, and fallen leaves I have. This year I'm growing...

Matt's Wild Cherry Tomato These are the sweetest, the smallest, the most wildly successful tomato I've ever had. I've got seeds planted now. It didn't mind anything from hail and frost to thunderstorms. It survived raccoons tromping through it and squirrels...

April or May. I have not yet figured out what I am doing wrong, but they grow so slowly. A pepper plant might only be 6" tall by the time they get set out. I've tried different types of potting soil, watering with fertilized water, not using any fertilizer at all, potting up, not potting...

With the last tomatoes fading away in the surviving garden beds, it's time to start thinking of next years garden. My husband has gotten super excited for this years garden. He grew absolutely huge Carolina Reapers in my greenhouse. We cleaned and sanitized it together. (He mopped my greenhouse...

Photos from the raised garden beds. A few tomatoes and the tea garden are still alive and doing well. My daughter delighted in some tiny tomatoes I grew. She promptly made a salad for her lunch at school with them.

I'm sorry, I don't know why I didn't see this. We also replaced ours with concrete board. It's all finished except for some trim paint now. It failed in part due to age, and in part because--it wasn't really siding? It was essentially just plywood made to look like siding, with no weather...

Welcome! I had to look up Grapeview, as I wasn't familiar with it. It looks like it's well past Olympia somewhere. I'm closer to Tacoma in my neck of the woods. The growing is good, but powdery mildew is a problem.

I admit, I was picturing an actual boat until you described skinning it.

Last year, Mrs. Peanut brought her 4 teen babies down and made me stand there while she instructed them on The Art of Begging From Humans. You could tell she was instructing them because she'd beg exaggeratedly, then turn and look at them, then they'd all look at her and then me.

I'd be too afraid a dog would eat a grape. My dogs already like to browse my pea garden. One grape can be deadly with the little 5 pounder dogs like mine.

I think you might be right. Thank you!

I clicked on this because I was puzzled why it popped up in August. Last years christmas tree is strategically being used to add distance between my dog and the neighbor's dog barking through the fence. Looks like a trash heap against the fence but they can't hauler at each other through the...

My husband would like to know what these are and how to get rid of them.They are tiny specs, this is greatly blown up.

I was so excited that I got to witness it! I don't think any other squirrel would have let me take pictures, even as far back as I was.

It was probably the same storm system since we're in Washington!

Guess what we saw today when we were out working on the siding?! A daring squirrel rescue!! It all started when we stopped work because we heard a chick in distress. We have chicks right now, so I went straight back to the chicken coop to see which hen was missing a chick. The unhappy-chick...