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A weed is only a plant that you don't want it where it is. I have henbit in my yard and it looks nice and is not in the way so I leave it. I also have clover, dandelion, violets and yarrow throughout the yard and I think it looks nice too.

We use to have them growing all over the yard. Wish I know then that they were edible, I love mushrooms. I haven't seen any in the last few years, going to have to keep my eye out for them.

I know this reply is a little late but I just ordered red, purple and a mix of white, yellow and orange carrot seeds from Park seeds.

I used them before, and they work well. The only problem was that the seedlings started to outgrow them pretty quickly. I used masking tape to label the rows so I know what was growing where.

I have hyacinths that started coming up already. One started around the end of December, I can see the flower bud too. There is another bulb, not sure what it is called, that is about six to eight inches tall at the moment, and that started growing around the middle of Dec. Looking around my...

Thanks, have you grown them before, or it your first time too? I chuckled when you said add rocks. We picked out so many rocks getting the veggie garden ready. Gallons and gallons of rocks. Probably more. We filled dozens of plastic shopping bags and still find more rocks when it rains. The area...

I want to getting some saffron crocuses. I and thinking about putting them in the little strawberry patch I have, it gets full sun. The soil around here is clay, but I have added a lot of my own compost to it. So it is a lot lighter and drains better now. Looking around I found a company called...

Thank you both, I'm going to go check out both links.

I'm starting to pick out what I want to plant in my garden this year. I want to know what seed companies you all use? I have only looked through the Burpees catalog so far, but some of their seeds are kind of expensive. I am not looking for the cheapest, but I want a good company with descent...

I have five guinea pigs and have been using their poop and bedding in the compost pile for three or four years now. The plants love it. I also use the cat litter, after scooping the poop out. But I use either pine or wheat litter for them. And sometimes the recycled newspaper pelleted type. But...

The first pics look like chickweed to me, but the last on looks like ground ivy. I have both in my yard. My animals love the chickweed, it is a tender plant. The ground ivy is tough. It has a distinct smell, almost minty. It is also one of the few plants that stays green all year here, which...

Thank you all for the suggestions. Lot so to look at and think about.

I love trumpet vines, so do the hummingbirds. But that is the one plant I was told I couldn't plant, they grow like crazy here and send shoots all over the place. In fact there use to be one in the back of the yard a couple years ago. I am still pulling shoots up, up to 15 feet from where it use...

I will look up the plants you listed, thistlebloom. I do like clematis, but it is sooo common. There are probably six or seven houses on my street that have purple clematis in their front yards. And that is the only variety I can find locally. I like things that are different, uncommon or...

I feed these to my guinea pigs, they love them. My bearded dragon will eat them too. They stay pretty small so I don't normally pull them, unless get them for the pigs.

I need some suggestions for a vining plant for one of my trellises. The area is part shade, and the trellis is about 8 ft tall. I have one trellis with morning glory on it, which grows up the trellis and into the birch tree, it has to grow 20+ feet! I have tried sweet peas (which I love) but...

We had a bunch last year, my bearded dragon loved them. None this year, kinda disappointed. All we did was pick them off as we found them. They didn't do any visible damage to the tree.

Beautiful sunflowers. I had a few sunflowers this year. I planted some then saw a blue jay taking the seeds. So I started some in pots and planted them when they got bigger. Of those a deer ate a few and trimmed a few. Then the deer ate the flowers off some of the mini sunflowers I had. They...

Sorry. I am in PA, near Philly, zone 7(I think). I think the tree is native to China or around at area. It is a conifer. The needles are short and green. It is not mine, I am trying to help my MIL ID it.

I am sorry, I can't get a photo. My camera battery died and I can't find the charger. I am trying to ID a tree. Bark is red in color. The new growth on the tree is palmated, like moose antlers. But the older growth is normal looking, with the branches covered in short needles. I tried looking on...