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Greetings, fellow gardeners! I haven't been on this forum in a while and am glad to be back. :) I've been growing tomatoes pretty much my entire adult life (I'm 54). This year, even though I am using the same brand of soil (raised beds), same fertilizer I have always used, etc., all of my...

Hi, Bulb Experts! This is my first time dealing with bulbs, so please bear with me. I found a bag of assorted hyacinth bulbs in the storage unit. I know I bought them in 2013 with the intention to plant them last fall. They are not dried up and appear pretty much the same as they did when I...

A family of ground squirrels has moved into the raised bed garden at the winery where I am the vegetable gardener. I have never dealt with this particular critter before. Personally, I'd like to sit out there some quiet, lazy afternoon and pick 'em all off one by one with a pellet gun, but I...

I got this idea from reading one of the many gardening blogs that I read on a regular basis. A lady took all her left over seeds, mixed them up in a jar, and had her kids sprinkle them in a prepared bed. I thought this would be a fun thing to try, so I did. I am just now starting to get...

We grow tomatillos every year. We don't even have to plant them anymore. We have about 6 volunteer plants in the yard right now (doesn't even count the ones I've pulled out and the ones that keep popping up). Anyway, I heard about pineapple tomatillos and per chance found some seeds for...

Last fall, I bought some sacks of flower bulbs at Walmart. They were like 3 for $12 or something like that. I bought a sack of hyacinth bulbs, a sack of red & yellow striped tulip bulbs, and a sack of assorted color iris bulbs. I completely forgot about them & found them in the shed the other...

Hi folks, I have a dilemma and thought I would bring my question to the friendliest and most knowledgeable garden peeps in the world.... all of you. :) Is there a formula for calculating how much soil/compost one will need for raised beds? I have been tasked with creating an organic garden...

Just wanted to share that my hubby & daughter built me a new compost pile today! We had one of those tumbling composters but outgrew it now that our whole yard is a garden. I'm hecka happy now! Hopefully we'll have better soil/yields next year. Plants have been growing great, lots of green...

I live in zone 9A. I am thinking of doing a second planting of tomatoes in about 3 weeks so we will have tomatoes through the end of fall. Has anyone else in this zone tried this? This is my first year gardening in this zone. We only moved here a year ago & it's very different from...

Last year I tried cooking with fresh tomatillos for the first time and really liked the outcome of using fresh ones, so I'm growing my own this year. I've never seen tomatillo plants and don't know much about them, just got a deal on 3 plants, planted them, and they are doing really super...

It seems that this year, I have acquired quite a few of the gardening implements that I have been wanting, though I still have many more on my wish list! I thought it would be fun to discuss amongst us all: A) What is your favorite gardening tool(s) that you currently possess, and why? B)...

I do not know if this is still the case, but back in the late 1980s when I was getting food stamps, we could buy fruit and vegetable seeds and seedlings at the store with food stamps. For those here who are on the EBT/food stamp program or if someone you know/love is on that program, you may...

We live in the Sierras and have a serious problem on our property with tunneling critters. I really do not want to put poison into the ground to kill these little buggers, but they're pretty prolific in our yard. We are working on our pre-spring planting chores (our garden area is bigger than...

I've been gardening off and on most of my adult life, and while some plants do well when you put the seeds directly into the ground, some plants do better when you use transplanted seedlings, which I have always purchased at nurseries, home improvement/gardening stores, from other gardeners and...