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for lack of a better way to phrase it. :/ We don't have a compost bin yet. It's kinda low on the list right now. What I do have is (literally) tons of cow manure. I just got the shovel and tossed several patties out of the driveway cuz we've grown tired of trying to back the vehicles out...

I placed a rather large order with Johnny's Select Seeds and got my order today. I noticed on the individual seed packets that some say: tested in month/07, Sell by month/08. Some of these were to be sold by March, April, June/08. Should I be upset? Did they sell me old seed?

In my usual haste and short-sightedness I only bought one climbing rose when it'll look better if we have two....one on each side of the front gate. I'm going to buy a second one, the first being a Joseph's Coat, this week. Thinking about getting a climbing blaze. Any other suggestions?

I know about planting the green beans to grow up the corn stalks, and it makes sense to grow the pumpkins at the bottom, but I am cornfused :P about growing the corn in hills. I have grown tomatoes, squash, and cucumbers in hills before, but not corn. How big of a hill would it have to be for...

Recently read an article on it. It's beautiful and I plan to plant some in the spring IF I can find seed corn. I'm hoping Johnny's will offer it. Anyone else grow it or know about growing it?

Hey Y'all, We were busy up at the cemetary today, cleaning, weedeating, and placing the Christmas arrangements. There is a huge gardenia bush at the base of the family plot. My SO's grandma planted it. I want to take a clipping from it to bring back up here to the farm; which is where it...

We live in SW Arkansas, outside the town limits of a very tiny town. The farm is 80 acres of paradise that's been in my SO's family for 3 generations. Where are y'all from? :dance

Hey Pat, (edited) as in patandchickens duh me! I meant to ask you earlier, but I would sure love your recipe for stove top NC barbeque when you get the time...no hurry with the holidays and all. I'll post the green tomato parmagiana one if anyone wants....which gets me to thinking, Nifty...

I don't know if we have any rug braiders or not. I intend to also post this on the BYC forum. I am just learning to braid rugs and I would like to find a little tool that was recommended to make starting the rug easier. It's called a Braid Aid and it's used to hold together the ends of the 3...

Hi Bluebird, I picked up my egg gourd seeds at the post office today. They may have been waiting on me for a few days, but I only go to the P.O. to check my mail when I'm forced to go to town...me being a serious homebody, the price of gas, and all. I am really looking forward to adding them...

When we were discussing the coffee grounds uses it got me to thinking about my mom and her coffee grounds and pickle juice. I now know lots of uses for the coffee grounds, but what could the pickle juice have possibly been used for? Anyone know? I remember she grew the most beautiful african...

Last week I went to Walmart looking for an amaryllis bulb in a planter to give my best friend for her birthday and the women in the garden dept. told me they didn't carry them. Yesterday when I was in there I happened to spot 4 really sad looking ones tucked in amongst a bunch of christmas...

The first pic shows some of our pond. I remember someone asking about ponds decorations, structures....sorry, ours is au natural. :) The second pic is of the area that will become my garden space, Lord willin' and the creek don't rise.

'k, it's corny, but I bought a bag of small ornamental gourds during Thanksgiving week to put in a basket and decorate my table. Now that I've moved on to my Christmas corniness, is there anything I can do with these gourds? They weren't expensive, so I could just toss em; but can I try to...

Now that there is all this fertile land just begging for me to garden in it, I'd really love to have a whole plot of lavender. Don't know how well it would do with our hot, humid summers; but I'd sure like to try. I could probably devote an eighth of an acre (or even more) to it. Anyone grow...

Now for the peach tree question. Peach trees usually do pretty well in this area. The one we have inside the yard fence however is small, stunted looking and produces maybe 1 or two peaches a season. The peaches it produces are small and usually fall off before they ever get close to ripe. I...

Have two different fruit and vegetable questions today. I'm going to post them seperately so my feeble mind doesn't get confused. There is a grapevine growing on one of the yard fences. It's probably pretty old, at least 12 years old or so. It always looks scrawny and gets some kind of black...

Crazy4chicks question about coffee grounds reminded me of my Mama, her great gardening skills, and the lengths she would go to just to have great plants. My mom lived in South Florida after my dad retired. She grew poinsettias that were absolutely beautiful. They actually spread and thrived...

At the old homestead on our farm, there is a beautiful saucer magnolia tree. It belonged to my SO's grandma. Back in early fall I harvested a few seed pods from it and after letting them dry till the seeds fell off I put the seeds outside in a large flower pot to overwinter. I didn't know...

I love roses and unlike other flowers, I actually do well growing them. What is everybody's favorite color/name of rose? I love Joseph's Coats and I plan to try to plant one this spring.