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Oh, my. Coffee is the one thing I can't seem to do without, and doesn't grow anywhere near local to here.

I really enjoyed reading all the way through this thread. So many ideas, so many perspectives. Thank you. I live the way I do because...I like it. I have goats and I milk them because I have severe digestion and stomach problems and the goat milk and yoghurt seem to help a fair amount...

Thanks for trying, Buff. Have a good weekend!

Thank you for the explanation, DBJay. MMMM sounds tasty. :P

Thanks for all the info, Rosalind. I'll have to think about where I might put one or two of those trees you named. We do pretty well with apples here, but I don't seem to be able to get an apricot to last more than a couple of years; too wet or something. Leaves shrivel off in the spring...

Thank you both. And Rosalind, I'd love to see pics of the flowers and and the fruit, when the time comes. How interesting, to have such old varieties of fruits growing in your orchard. Talk about living history! Can you describe some of those varieties you named in more detail? What you...

When it comes to growing apples espalier, are there some varieties that are more suitable than others? L.

Borrow someone's propane torch, and cook what is left of the roots until it surrenders. I love my torch. Mua-ha-ha-ha!! :cool:

What are pigeon peas?

I re-potted a lot of asiatic, Oriental and various hybrid lilies on my deck. I mix sand, peat moss, and finished compost together to make fresh soil medium. The lilies are doing well, multiplying like crazy and growing large bulbs. I have to repot every year with fresh soil or they aren't...

I teach students with moderate/severe disabilities at the high school level and we grow tomato starts and snap peas, and strawberries in the spring. We are about zone 8. They really enjoy eating the peas and strawberries, and we sell the tomato plants and go on an outing to a wave pool/water...

Thank you to you both! I think I'll try the honey locust. Non-rotting living fenceposts ... Now there's something attractive to a goatherder. I take it they grow pretty quickly, too? Linda

Yeah, those little yellow balls did hurt, didn't they? What a shame, so many lovely plants that misbehave in the wrong location. Scotch broom is really pretty when it's in bloom, but it's another nasty toxic and invasive species here. I've eliminated them from our place, but the pasture...

When I was a little girl, my grandma's house in the east SF bay area, California, had a lot of trees growing around the yard. They had multiple trunks sort of like a sumac. They had dark green, shiny, pinnately compound leaves with lots of little pointy, serrated leaflets. One whole compound...

Best wishes for smooth procedures. Bless her heart -- how old is she? Linda

Pat, sometimes I swear we still have a bunch of blooming idiots at my house. :lol: Including me.

Thanks, Reinbeau, I'll give that a try. I bought a couple of rolls on clearance, and hadn't decided where they would be used to best advantage. I'll use those where you can see from the garden/house. I might try using some carpet I ripped out last week as a base for a more utilitarian path...

Reinbeau, do you have to keep adding pea gravel to your paths every year? I'm always looking for ways to tame the gumbo muck we have here for about 8 mos a year. I made some short gravel paths with 3/4 minus and roofing paper underlayment as an experiment - the materials were free and I was in...

Hi Reinbeau, I just bought a book called Lasagna Gardening. The author touts her method as a no till, no weeds method. Sort of a variation on Ruth Stout. It's a variation on how I tend to garden these days, too. Well, she starts a new bed like you, but she puts a 2-3" thick wet pad of...

:ep No I certainly wouldn't want to give my babies alcohol. I remember seeing the birds eating the old fermented Pyracantha berries off the bush and then flying into windows, etc. (When I was a kid -- Yes! I can still remember that far back!) I am also afraid of aflatoxin, I remember...