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Got a yardful of black (NOT English) walnuts, falling off tree at a rental property. They still have the thick green hull. Are they supposed to, and will turn black, or are they falling off prematurely? I just remember my mother's being in black tarry hulls. She cracked them with a hammer on...

Been so long since I've been able to garden, can't remember; I've picked most of my purple hull peas with just a few blooms left. Can I expect another round or is this about it?

I worry that my poor chickens are not drinking enough water in this heat wave, perching with their beaks open, so I carry a bowl of water around to offer each one (yes, time consuming). Some still won't drink enough. Today I cooked some purple hull peas, and served them the leftover juice; not...

Butcher knife, hacksaw,bandsaw? Any special method you use to cut open your winter squashes?

I know black widow spiders are beneficial and seldom bite, but if you have kids around your garden, teach them to identify them. They seem to like to hide under cardboard mulch. Saw one today when I lifted a piece, and it reminded me of the year when I mulched the whole garden (different...

Sure, I know you save your best seeds to plant. However, my garden got off to a late start and I had these 75+ plants that sprung up from some cantaloupe rinds I threw out, that were in the way. I transplanted them to an out of way site, hating to waste any possibility. Got to thinking, the...

Yep. We thought we were moving to the isolation of the country to get away from crime. Nope. When my first weedeater went missing, I told myself, I'd left it at a rental property. When the 2nd one disappeared, we also found several of my husband's tools were missing. They had been all over the...

It's probably just wishful thinking, but has anyone noticed less fireants in general than, say, a couple months ago? Or this time last year?

The thread under pests:Children, got me curious. (See my post there first.)Most of the adults I know who were forced to garden a lot as a child do not garden now. What was your childhood experience in this area and how did that effect your gardening choices/experiences today?

I've read locust trees were OK for fence posts (rot resistant, I guess?) Got a lot of small straightish ones that need taking out of overgrown field. Has anyone used them for that or any other purpose? I suppose the all over wicked thorns will have to be skinned of with a knife or something. If...

Thanks Hoodat and Ridgerunner, for the info. abt. dewberries earlier. Found that I have a good bit of wild ones here and they don't have blight like the wild blackberries. A bit seedy, and not as sweet and prolific as the old wild blackberries I used to pick by 5 gal. bucketfuls before blight...

Never, no matter how frugal or unpicky about laundering, throw ratty work jeans in with a towel or old sheet you've placed under an area where you have a hen that lays thin eggs that burst. Not even with bleach and hot water. You will not notice anything at first, but as the heat of the day...

Who has designed their flower, or other, garden as a labyrinth? Any pics.? If I ever have a plant nursery I might set it up that way as an attractant. No one can leave until they see it all... I'll invite Jack Nicholson to the opening.

I love hazelnuts (filberts) and have catalogs that say the shrubs or bushes grow here (Ga.) I think I read they're like a hedge. Anybody grown these?

This sounds strange, but has anyone else noticed that when you plant a row of something, the type weeds that end up growing there look very similar to what you planted? It's as though they're camouflaging to keep you from digging them up. I thought this "law of similars" was my imagination...

Noticed one of my old pricey deer repellent containers showed putrescent egg solids as a main ingredient. I now have chickens, thus excess eggs. Any good recipes, or can I just bust some eggs around perimeter to rot - wait, that would attract even more coons & possums & skunks, so how does that...

Flies...inside, outside, around the chickencoop. What control do ya'll prefer?

Anyone got a favorite way or tool they use to remove the long grass and roots that wind around rototiller tines when tilling newground? Seems I spent more time under the tiller than behind it today.

Will repeated mowing eventually kill poison ivy?

Got a mostly dried up pond on property I bought. Anyone have luck with bringing one back around? Seems to be fed by a stream that only flows part time. Somewhere in storage we have a Dyradrill, I think it's called. (That thing they sold in Mother Earth mag.) If I tapped into that sluggish...