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The most common cause of hard start is dirty air filter. It need not look dirty to be dirty. Next is improper air mixture settings. You have 2 mixture screws, one is low speed, and the other is High speed, they are marked "L" and "H" respectfully. The "L" is the one you would want to adjust...

Keep turning it. It will heat up, and once it starts cooling back down it is then safe to use. The faster you get it to go through it's heating cycles and it breaks down, the fast you can use it. Depending on your method it can be as little as 30 days, or even in excess of 6 months. Keep it...

I didn't read all the posts so someone may have warned you already. The first pic in this this thread, you want that plant GONE GONE GONE! Those are bad news. That "pretty flower" spits out over 1000 seeds and left to it's own devices will totally take over your property. Here in Idaho they call...

I know that is the case with onions from personal experience. They MUST me watered regularly or they get hot. This thread makes me want to do some experimenting now with peppers. I love Jalapino's but their heat caused me to move to the Tam mild variety several years ago because the regular...

If you use a sod cutter you'll also be throwing away all the "green fertilizer" in the process. I've cut new gardens every time I've moved and always just till up the ground and start adding compost to it. Grass will only be a big problem if that is Bermuda, and it looks like just Fescue to me...

Too many variables to answer that question. Canning and freezing or fresh eating only? What vegetables? Soil conditions? Watering? For the most part you'll just have to wing it. Decide what you like and observe how much you go through from one season to the next and then plant accordingly...

To thin them, you don't pluck the extras from the ground, you just walk down the row with a ho and clip the extras off with the sharp corner, takes just a few minutes.

If I was going to do the area pictured, I would garden in strips and leave grass walkways in between them for access while watering etc. I'd make the garden strips 3 feet wide so you can use black plastic to kill off the remaining grass that wants to come back. You could rent a sod cutter and...

Yep, it's pretty close buy.

see my edit above. I'll also add this. Here in the U.S. shallow wells are being fazed out, most banks won't loan on homes unless they have a deep well. Want to add this too, I worked in Industrial Maintenance for over 25 years. At one point I was called in to work on a break down of the water...

I disagree. Water drawn from a deep well has been filtered by mother earth, through rocks, gravel, sand, etc. I would agree on municipal water, I wouldn't wash my dog with that stuff. Two different animals... Municipal water is grabbed out of a lake / reservoir run through a filter and then...

You need some 4 foot grow lights. They are growing high so fast because they are getting low light. The grow light should be about 1/2 to 1 inch above the plant, otherwise they will get spindly. By spindly I mean they will grow tall fast and have real thin stalks, and will in turn be very...

I'm 30 miles North of Idaho Falls. You can get a crop of Mortgage Lifters, but you have to be a smart and committed gardener, as with trying to grow ANYTHING in this frozen tundra of a wasteland. I grew Bird House gourds here, those are 110 days ;) Mortgage Lifters are worth the effort...

I think you would do better just drawing water from the well for animals, less chance of something doing wrong. Rain cleans pollution from the air, to then try and filter and use it for animals just seems to me to be more work and effort than it's worth.

Mortgage Lifter tomato is the best slicing tomato in the world in my (unbiased) ;) opinion followed next by Brandywine. No garden should be without at least a few of those. ;)

I think the ideal way to try potatoes in one of those plastic containers like pictured would be to use several and cut the bottom out of the ones placed on top. Here's how you would do it; Fill the bottom one about 3/4 full of dirt and plant your taters. I think 4 plants would be about right. As...

They're almost all grafted, you'd be hard pressed to find one that isn't. They produce excellently and depending on what you buy and how you care for it should be producing within 4 years or so. If they send off suckers at the base, which all trees tend to do, they will be coming from what the...

I just did a google here's the first thing that showed http://www.gardentimeonline.com/BerryBoxes.html If you do a search you might find one in your area Edit, here's a better one http://www.peachridge.com/harvest/baskets.htm

Granite rock dust is a favorite of grapes. Proper water at the base, not the foliage. Water on the foliage cause black spot. And not overly fertilized, otherwise you get all growth and no grapes. Grapes also take a long time before they really produce good crops. Proper pruning is also...

Most seeds stay viable for 3 to 5 years, tomato being 4, according to the "university experts" Seeds can last a whole lot longer in my experience. I've planted seeds 7 and 8 years old and they've come up. I read an article about a date palm seed in Israel 2000 years old that is now planted and...