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Well, it's easier in some ways. We have a longer season and we can get started earlier with the spring garden and later with the fall garden but it's the summertime heat that's tough. It tough to make yourself go out when you get home from work and it's still 90F plus and the humidity is near...

I just bought three 6' Gloria Grande Papershell pecan trees that came with the roots in spagham moss in a plastic bag. They're a Stuart pecan variety. I now know that I will need to find another variety for pollination purposes even though we have a lot of hickory trees in the woods very close...

Has anyone gotten their garden porn yet? I mean the Baker Creek Seed catalog? I've gone through that thing four or five times already and I've made a list a yard long of seeds I want to buy. Last year I ordered some of their melon seeds including a packet of the Tigger melons. The ones we...

Now this was back in the early sixties... If I ever asked my Dad for a quarter the very next words out of his mouth would be, 'Mere a minute... which always had something to do with a sling-blade. It was like the movie Cool Hand Luke. I didn't ask Dad for a quarter very often... :rolleyes...

From what I was reading, sorghum as a grain is grown extensively in Africa because it's hardy and drought tolerant. Apparently they use it a lot like we use wheat in they grind it down to a flour and make breads, etc. from it.

You know after reading a few of the other posts on this thread I was getting confused. Some were referring to sorghum as a grain. But I've only known it as a cane we grew in the deep South to make sorghum syrup with. There a lot of instances where words that people use outside the South mean...

I've got a flat of Dutch cabbage, a flat of collards, and another flat of romaine lettuce all standing about 3 inches tall on my grow cart. I roll it out onto the porch before I go to work in the mornings so they'll harden off and be ready to plant in two weeks in my raised beds. This weekend...

We used to grow it when I was a kid. As I remember we had about a quarter of an acre of it out away from the house. In the late fall I remember my Dad handing my brother and me a machete and showing me how to cut it. The next day while he was in town we cut down the entire quarter acre and...

PeteyFoozer, what are those large metal containers? Or better yet, what were they before they became planter boxes?

Well, I don't have any experience with greenhouses except wanting one myself. If I was going to set up a portable greenhouse and I had a way to anchor it firmly on the ground I'd go ahead and do it right about now. But that's here. In PA you'll still get some really heavy blizzards and...

Oh, I know what I wanted to say in an earlier post about the bees. Ever since we've had them our neighbors all say they have never seen their flower and vegetable gardens be so beautiful and productive. Kelly, the neighbor down the lane says her butterfly bushes have been flowering out to the...

Good Deal, Jared. Keep us informed when you make your move. I'd be real interested in hearing your experiences with the top bar hives.

You've got a lot of nice catches there Secuono. I especially like #2 the landscape and the moon framed by the locust tree and the silo behind that. Really cool! Good eye! Thanks for posting them.

Being a true Neanderthal I use my disc grinder. Does the job done quickly and my hoes, axes, etc. stay sharp. Plus there's a lot of really pretty sparks!!! But you know, I read an article somewhere a long time ago that recommended taking a 5 gallon bucket and filling it about 3/4's full of...

Jared, Thanks! I went to your web-site and it's top notch. I've been wanting to start one myself but just haven't invested the time to learn how. My son set up a super web-site for the business he owns and it's really professional looking. But anyways, I saw one thing on your site I wanted...

Yes we do. Well, Teresa does. I'm just the Tool B***h. You know, 'Honey, go get me this.' or 'Honey, go get me that.' or 'Honey, hand me one of those whatchamacallits.' :P But she has a very good teacher who is a master beekeeper just over the county line. He actually raises and sells...

Funny, Marshall...Funny! :lol:

The bees are fine Lesa. We closed out the season last October with 7 hives. We had 8 but one of them for some crazy reason swarmed and split late in the summer leaving a very weaken colony behind that withered away. But we'll start having a nectar flow in the next 3 weeks or so with the tulip...

Can't wait for spring. The garden has been cleaned out and I put down straw over all the boxes back in November. Today I'm going by Southern States Co-op to pick up a flat each of Dutch and Chinese cabbage, collards, brussell sprouts, etc. and have them ready to go in some of the boxes in...

We have 23 Black Sex Links (BSL's) and they put out a lot of poop. They have a 8x4x4 coop inside their run and I have to pull out the pine shavings and poop at least every other week. On Saturday mornings on the off week I take a hoe work it so that the litter gets fluffed back up and not...