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Hm...I planted some garlic three springs ago, on purpose to have small garlic to use when I just wanted a small amount, and also for greens. I didn't use them all and they've just stayed in the ground since they were planted - but they never formed multiple cloves, just stayed small and round or...

Hey, all, I planted turnips this year for one of our crops that we'd never tried before. The first planting was early in spring, a fair number of seeds didn't germinate,so on second planting, I planted a bit more thickly. Well, every one of those seeds came up, so many that I wonder if I...

Ok, folks, I know lots of us grow pretty unusual things in our gardens, but... this morning I went out to do some watering. Over on the far side of the garden was a large lump. I planted within ten feet of that spot over the weekend, and I know darned well that there was no lump there then. Get...

My mom stews rhubarb with a bit of water and sugar to taste, when it's sauce she pours it over either pound cake or angel food cake (my favorite), with or without ice cream. To die for!!

Mark where the plants are now, wait until the leaves and stalks die back in the fall and dig then. If you dig them now, they may well die, as they need the energy stored all summer to survive the winter. Transplanting now is not a good idea! You won't have any doubt when you dig up a root -...

NO! At least not in my experience...and we've had rhubarb for nearly 50 years. We had a frost just the other night, a hard frost, too. I've made pie and rhubarb muffins since, eaten both, and am not yet dead! I've never heard such a thing... If you cut it down to the ground this time of year, I...

I am likewise going to try Swiss Chard for the first time. Have y'all seen the books by Eliot Coleman? He lives in Maine and uses cold frames and UNHEATED greenhouses to grow upwards of seventy varieties of cold weather crops year round...mostly greens and root veggies, but heck, in January...

I had a whole bunch of onions that got missed in the harvest last summer...after the DH tilled the garden, they ended up all in one spot, which I didn't know until they all sprouted! I did move some so they were more in rows than in a pile, but there were so many that I decided just to leave...

I am in upstate NY, like another poster, but probably a bit farther south because I'm on the edge of zones 4 & 5... I had some of my potato harvest from last summer sprout in the root cellar - in the bucket of sand where they were stored. When I found them, the sprouts were a foot long!!!! I...

Well, except for the smell of Lemon Verbena - mine is like, WOW! compared to Lemon Balm. I love lemon balm, too, mind you!

That was my plan, only now I think I'll do the bucket thing. My lemon balm is enough of a chore to keep under control. I can't find plain old mint starts around here anywhere this year, so when I saw a packet of mint seeds, I bought them. I plan to drill holes in the bottom of a bucket for...

Beautiful! :thumbsup Nice job! :tools Well done!:weight Enjoy!:watering

I bought a great book last fall: Root Cellaring Natural Cold Storage of Fruits and Vegetables by Mike and Nancy Bubel It talks about different methods of storage, a number of different ways to make a root cellar or equivalent (including some that don't require either building or digging!)...

We are sugaring now... we use the 5-gal. buckets too, but we just leave the lids on... well, first we take the lids off, and cut two parallel slits, from the edge of the lid toward the center. The slits are about 2 inches long and maybe 1 1/2 inches apart. This creates a flap of plastic. then we...

Hey, all, My lemon verbena came through the winter quite nicely. It's starting to put in a few new leaves already. But it's got a lot of straggly-looking "branches" and I was wondering if I trimmed it back like you would any herb that started to get leggy, will it thicken up and bush out rather...

My mom lives up in the Heldebergs (the northern foothills of the Catskills, about 25 miles south of Albany). She's had borage in her garden for over 40 years. It always comes back. Don't be fooled by the relatively southern location; she's at a high enough elevation that her growing season is...

Somebody did this last year, too - anyone remember the results? Comparison would be interesting, don't you think?

My mom has a huge, old rhubarb bed. When we pull rhubarb, we cut the leaves off right there at the patch and lay them around the plants. Sure beats weeding!

I buy Packman from Johnny's Selected Seed. They're in Maine, I'm in upstate NY, and we've bought from them for many years. Packman is a super broccoli!

We grow San Marzanos and love them. Year before last we tried a new variety, can't remember which one. But it was a smaller tomato, and though we liked it fine from the flavor standpoint, we won't get those again. It is so much easier to process the larger varieties! Depending, of course, on...