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Well my garden is finally done and I have planted parts of it. I didn't do much as I got such a very late start. This will be a test to see how a late garden does here. We already had an early frost for three days and I lost several things, that's okay as the things I lost I knew wouldn't grow...

Everytime we go to the nursery we spend a couple of hours talking to her. I will look for these varieties and talk to her about them also. Thanks for all the advice. Now to decide what else to grow right now. Monica

After it was dug. Dh scooping dirt. Sifting rocks out. Dumping dirt. How it looks now. We still have another evenings work worth of dirt to do. In the background you can see what I mean about the bowl. Monica

OCF- We usually start having lower night temps sometime in Oct. Last year we had our first snow before halloween! The year before not until just before thanksgiving. When we lived at the beach in ventura county, I grew tomatoes all the time. They still produced heavily even when temps were in...

My garden is almost ready to plant in. I am deciding what to plant. I want tomatoes but don't know what will grow here. We are at 5847ft. Right now it is getting down to 60* at night and 96* during the day. We have strong winds sometimes, and being in CA, no moisture. I used to grow beautiful...

Finally, DH got my garden to the top of the list!! He started it the begining of July. We worked on it most of the 4th. Not much since as it has been very hot and smokey. This is it so far; It's a long process as we have very rocky soil, but it's very fertile soil. We were going to do...

I repotted 5 cyprus trees. Waiting for DH to prep the area for DGD's secret garden. Monica

That's on my schedule today also. I am trying to get rid of all the mustard. I finished up front now I need to finish in the back. Monica

Went to visit my Dad and Mom yesterday and they gave us cuttings from several types of succulents and cacti and a couple of other plants. Monica

I will be planting green beans and gophers purge today. Monica

We have a big gopher problem and five acres. I will start planting next week. We can't plant up here until after mother's day as we still get freezes until then. Thanks Monica

My neighbor gave these to me , she got them from someone else. She was told that the plants repel gophers. We are going to try them and see, but I was wondering what they are called? Monica

Yesterday DGD and I planted barrel cactus seeds. We also planted three kinds of sunflowers, sweet corn, pickeling cucumbers, regular cucumbers. We are planting DGD a secret garden this month. We can't plant up here until after mothers day becuase of the frost. We forgot to plant the green...

My ex MIL grew one from seed. everyone told her that ones grown from a seed don't produce fruit. She didn't care, she said that hers might. She had it growing in water fro several years in the house. Shw finally planted it. A couple of years later that thing was producing so much fruit no one...

For now that's knida of what we had in mind, just didn't know if it would workout. Thanks Monica

I like the idea also. I am always on the lookout for products/ tools that work like they should. Monica

No I hadn't heard of it, thank you, I will look for it. Monica

SOrcy- So I just harvest the flowers and infuse them? Do I put the liquid on the pain or drink it? DH has high cholesterol. Monica

Great! Monica

Thanks Pat, I know I can't get rid of them quickly. I am very determined when it comes to getting rid of pests of any sort. I once spent three weeks digging daily until I was about 4' deep to get the roots of four'o clock plants an awful rose bushes(I love roses, just not these) out of the...