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I am thinking of trying to veggies in hay bales. I just saw this in a post on another site (possibly sufficient self) and it intrigued me. Has anyone tried this? It seems like a reasonable way to deal with bad soil until you can get it amended to a point when you can grow plants that require...

I took my partially ripened, butternut squash and washed and treated it today with a bleach-water dip. I am keeping my fingers crossed :fl and hopeing that they will keep until I want to eat them this winter. I got a late start on planting the squash, this year. Next year I will make more...

#1 I was planting a 3 foot wide bed of day lillies the length of my front walk. I had watered them in well with the sprinkler. I decided to take a short cut across the new bed to pick up a few papers that had blown into my yard. As I stepped across the bed I slipped in the mud and wet grass...

Must be a good pear year all over! I have 2 trees that have had only a dozen pears or less in past years. This year I had about 100 lbs of pears from one of those trees! I have my refridgerator drawer full (whats left after canning) and take out 6 or so to ripen on the counter at a time.

We had a frost last week and my butternut squash plants were killed. The squashes were not dammaged by the frost. My husband and I picked them last weekend, even though they were still green or mottled orange/green. We were worried that they might rot or get dammaged if we got a hard frost. Will...

I have heard that there are large beets that are grown for feed for animals. These large beets can be used to supplement chicken feed in the winter. You would hang one of these beets in the coop or run and the chickens would peck at it. Does anyone know what type of large beets these are?