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you mow around it or is it contained by a sidewalk or driveway or some other barrier? i had some get going in the strawberry patch. by the time i dug it out of there the root clump was the size of a wheelbarrow and it took me quite some time to knock all the dirt off it and get just the roots...

finished last batch of tomatoes (unplanned by me but since they picked them last week they were there to be used and ready yesterday so i did 'em) of 7 quarts. many had deep rotting splits so about 1/3 - 1/2 of what was there on the counter ended up in the reject bucket and got buried in the...

@Shades-of-Oregon i have seen monarchs lay eggs on other flowers related to milkweed like this butterfly weed (it has orange flowers) plant we have growing around here in some spots (that we've planted) i actually prefer it to the regular milkweed plants because the roots do not travel they...

return as much as you can to the gardens where grown. worm composting, in place composting, other composting and amending where needed. crop rotations, cover crops and fallowing. i consider my biggest failures to be when i can't get a garden weeded early enough that the majority of the weeds...

i no longer even try to fight whatever it is here because like you it seems to come along no matter what i do. the plants start losing leaves and sometimes are almost completely empty of leaves by this time. we did have more leaves on plants this year compared to most of the previous years and...

that seems like such an early time for a medical appointment, i hope all went ok. as for the diagonals, it's all we can do to avoid the people who aren't paying attention to where they're going let alone worry about directions... :)

welcome back and i hope things go better this time around. :) as for life changing, yes, that certainly does happen.

yes, and i'm sorry it has happened. :hugs

i'm not wanting to rain on your parade but i would also not count those chickens as hatched just yet. my experience is that such events may look ok at first and then within a few days... :( i will hope for otherwise and look forwards to updates. :) what this will do is send a strong signal...

as we get older we only have so many brain cells and they need to remember what we already learned. it's tough to learn new things and to not be stuck in our ways... i've kept learning that, but it is a hard slogggg (which rhymes with grogggg).

if the car does not commute you must reboot!

weather forecast went from dry to rains for the next several days, which isn't great for me but a help to all the plants and animals in our area.

wow, this weather forecast has gone from great to the opposite in only a couple of days. while the beans that are just developing might do ok as a result all the dry beans i don't have already harvested might be ruined. a mixed bag this season for sure... i did get a lot of dry beans picked...

we visited a friend yesterday at her retirement home and while there i happened to have brought some beans to shell out while we were sitting and talking to her. years ago she had wanted me to give her some beans and i'd never really gotten to doing it so yesterday as i was shelling them i was...

the only movie i have fainted watching at the theatre...

are you planting them in the same space all the time?

same here!

i normally used about 1/4-1/3rd of a bucket of worm compost/worms for each tomato plant. always have had pretty good production.

i can see that. :)

i'm trying so hard... i'm up against some tough cookies here...