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Oooh, tomato soup with bits of melted/melting cheddar cheese - one of my favorites from my childhood! The nice thing about this soup recipe, in addition to not having to peel the tomatoes, is that this probably takes less cooking than spaghetti sauce, because that sauce took forever and used a...

This question opens the door to an existential side of tomato growing.

No, this was from poison parsnip. I should have worn long sleeves, but it was a hot day, so... I don't think I treated it with anything, just waited for the blisters to dry up on their own. That wasn't my only run-in with poison parsnips, just the most spectacular! Your experience with...

This subject is near and dear to me. I resent the fact that in my lifetime what were once known as wildflowers became reclassified as "weeds." I blame it on the pesticide manufacturers who have eradicated the pollinator attracting "weeds" that once grew abundantly on the outskirts of farmers'...

Tomatoes of course, both in salads and in homemade salsa!

I used to start a lot of plants early on the back enclosed porch, but in recent years I've limited early starts to tomatoes and geraniums. Just a few pots now, down from a dozen back in the day. I'm not just an easy gardener, I'm a lazy one too! Of course that means waiting awhile for blooms...

As usual I've drawn up a design for what I will plant, and where, this coming spring, and ordered seeds to put away with my saved seeds once they dry. Typically once I've put away the seeds and written plan/notes, and Christmas season is looming, I will forget all about gardening. Then in the...

This may be a bit off topic, but fruit flies are a nuisance in the kitchen. They tend to hop a ride in on produce from the garden and cut flowers. Anyways these little sticky fly traps work wonders to collect the annoying critters. This one (stuck into a piece of banana inside a plastic cup)...

That is horrible. :confused:

I LOVE your beautiful collies!

I am terrified of wasps and hornets, and I have a wonderful service that uses cedar and other oils to kill nests and protect against rebuilding, since these pests dislike the smell and feel of these oils. They come once a month in summer and fall months, and this has been wonderfully effective...

I grew a rainbow mix of carrots one year that included purple dragons. I grew them in a small space and harvested them with winter fast approaching, so I didn't get much, but I do often buy the purple carrots at the farmers market. The deep purple and orange are my favorites. (The whitish and...

Tomatoes! All my other salad ingredients have come from other gardeners at the farmers market. I can claim only the tomatoes.

One or two days ago there was a mass gathering of hummers in my crabapple tree out front. It looked like hundreds of birds. I think it must have been a starting point for the next leg of their journey, and they were regrouping at the send-off point. Today I'm seeing none, but I'll give the...

Those look like happy ducks. Sorry about your chickens.

First, you have my sympathies. Second, unfortunately I have no experience with any of the trees you are considering, living in the far north as I do. Hopefully others in your growing zone will be more helpful than me.

Welcome to the forum from Vermont (same mountains, but further north). I assume you are still a bee-keeper? After all gardens need bees, just as bees need gardens.

Tomatoes, the only food crop I grow consistently each year (and then only on a small scale).

Welcome from Northern New England! I love palm trees and palmettos too, although they don't grow here. I associate them with past wondrous vacations to tropical places where they do grow!

That is some high tech watering system!