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I absolutely hate the stuff. Once apon a time I thought fine let it grow anywhere besides my garden. You know set up a perimeter defense sort of thing. Well that is not working so I am out to kill it what by whatever means possible.

I know it has been a while since I posted and I may have asked before but..... How in the heck do you kill the stuff. I have tried everything from salt, dishsoap and just about every other home remedy that has been offered but it is still growing strong. It has even grown through the...

Now that we have eaten about all I can eat on the greens and a few of the turnips themselves it is time to harvest them all and replant something else. Now when I planted I did not expect quite as big of harvest as we have gotten as I used old seeds and did not think that they would be very...

Thanks maybe I should move them then.

I have tried a couple different times to grow sweet potatoe's with no sucess. Well this year after a little more research I realized that they were not like regular potato's and you needed to get the slips and start them that way. Well I planted chunks with the slips already growing hoping...

Due to money we did not have enough to purchase the lumber or what ever to make a raised bed so we did recessed beds and they did quite well but then again we are in the desert.

When I water mine I use the Miricle grow sprayer thing and it does knock the tops down but it does not take long for them to pop back up. I even had some this year that I forgot to water for a little while and were pretty wilty and just gave them a good dose of water and they came right out of it.

I love how you did your squares as individual squares. They look great. We just added a dripper out of pvc to our squares and no more need for the dividers since it is now divided by the pvc.

No worries cause I was thinking along those same lines kinda tramatic for the poor little guys haveing their whole world turned upside down. LOL Actually though if you had an extra bin you could prepare the new bin then turn them into it wait and then get the castings dont ya think? I am...

One of my friends does worm composting as well but he said he just dumps his upside down for a couple hours or so to get the castings then starts the new bed for them. So I am anxious to see how you do this.

I make a rhurbarb sauce that is wonderful over icecream. These are estimates cause I am at work and dont have my book. 2 cups rhurbarb 1 cup sugar water cook in sauce pan until rhubarb seperates and is no longer chunky. Add strawberry jello and pour into jars let seal. once cool enough to...

I have never tried the tops usually they hit the compost or chickens. Ya must want to eat the super young ones cause my greens get kinda spiney. But then again this was my first year for turnips as well and I really did not care for the greens but they to were/ are not new sprouts.

The fence looks great. I just wished my garden looked as prestine and weed free as the one's ya'll post.

http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/7707/p1040400.jpg I want to know a little more about this. What do you have planted in your fence? does it have drain holes in the bottom?

Saving pepper seeds--- I am going to have to disagree about the letting them stay on the vine. I bought some bell peppers at the grocery store a couple months ago, saved the seeds drying them only a day or so then popped them into the garden and they are all sprouting nicely.

So what all do you plan to plant in your bales?

Personally I really dislike roses due to the pruning thing so take my advise with a whole lot of salt cause I am no expert by any means. But about 3 years ago I started managing a feed store that had roses everywhere none of which had been taken care of for several years and were very tall...

Some thing else to try is only set one door instead of both. We hubby and I have had way better success only setting the single door.

Also for the 6-8 legged pests on any of the cabbage family try planting some fennel close by it will help keep away the cabbage moths.

Oh I agree Hay is expensive and will mold and such so check out the prices for straw as it is usually much cheaper. I manage a feed store and down here in AZ Hay is up to 13.00 a bale and staw is around $5.00 big difference.