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Two recent frosts killed most of my potted porch plants, so I emptied all the pots, except for the still-hanging-on petunias and snapdragons. The next freeze will probably wipe out those remaining plants. Time to replace them with pumpkins I guess. I relocated all my windchimes from the open...

These are really cool looking. I can see why you want these.

It's worse still when you have more dead friends and relatives than living ones.

That describes my daily attire to a tee! Womens shoes and clothes have never fit me comfortably. When our horses were still living I had two pairs of cowboy boots that I wore much of the time (since I was on horseback much of the time). They were the most expensive pieces of foot gear that I...

Luxury is overrated. Coziness and homey-ness are where it's at! If I lived nearby, I'd be a constant visitor to your cafe. It looks like heaven-on-earth to me. And your cooking.. oh my!

That is so cool, Steve, that you are still growing your grandmother's legacy tomatoes from generations of saved seeds. The oldest living thing that I own (if you count clones as originals) is/are two rubber tree house plants. In the 1960s when we lived in Boston, I worked for a time at a...

Looks like you've been busy, Bay! That's too bad about your friend being uprooted along with her family and having to sell the one home and buy another. Wow your sheep population has really exploded! Love the dress (above). That's a side of you we haven't seen!

and here I thought I was the only chemistry illiterate gardener present...

Your sheltie would love these things even more than you do! They excel at agility, trick training, etc because they thrive on having a job to do, and also, if treats are involved, they will perform even more happily. Most shelties are small to medium sized, but some can "go over-sized"...

What kind of hounds do you have?

Perhaps that is the secret to why my asters are happier out of their garden bed with its regular applications of fertilizers and worm castings.

Thanks. This is my sheltie, Mabel, from the front. I have very few good pictures of her, and I should try to take more while she's still with me, as she is 14 already. She's pretty, but not very photogenic. Am I remembering correctly that you too have shelties, or maybe collies?

Some years ago I bought 3 varieties of asters for my perennial beds. Two were purple and they seemed to thrive, whereas the pink one deteriorated to the point I gave up on it and removed it. However, on a whim, rather than just toss the uprooted plant into a weedy patch, I turned over a patch...

This reminds me of an exchange on a gardening forum that existed in the past, and still makes me laugh to remember. One gardener related how a neighbor had come over to her yard and asked how she was able to grow such healthy flowers and vegies while her own efforts had failed. She...

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...