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The farm is just 80 acres. We have two ponds and except for the site of the two homesteads, the one we live in and the one that's falling down (was the grandparents) the rest of the land is pretty much divided 50/50. Half pasture and half woods. There's some pretty little places where the...

Thanks Kim, I really appreciate the info. Yes, it is a beautiful tree. There is so much on this farm that has just gone to waste, so to speak, since the elders got sick and were unable to care for it. The SO has a full-time and then some job, but now that my health issues have stabilized I...

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...

I remember my mom putting coffee grounds on her gardenias. She also used pickle juice for some plants. I wish I could remember which.

I am in zone 7B and before this farm was a chicken farm and before it was a cattle ranch, it was a blackberry farm. I learned this my first spring here when there were blackberries popping up literally everywhere and the SO said, oh yeah! didn't i tell you?? There are hundreds of blackberry...

Some excellent advice on electric fencing. The only ideas I can come up with hanging bags of human hair, from hairbrushes and/or haircuts. The bags can be made out old stockings. It may not deter all pesky critters, but a few. I also have a brainless border collie...old name: Jake, new name...

I could claim exhaustion or just ignorance here, but.. Smittys, moist media? Do you mean like cotton in a jar kept moist? Also, could you put the term 'terminal flower bud' in REALLY simple terms for me? What kind of conditions do I want to keep this rooting in while I wait? Thanks!

I'm no rose expert either, but I think you may have hit on at least part of the answer there. I've never had a rose that liked me doting on it. I basically ignore them, except to sprinkle with a little sevin dust in the spring. In a way the fact that the timber companies around here release...

Well gee Bliss, we didn't have time to discuss this forum last night with all the chat about food and dumb dogs!:lau Hope you have an awesome Sunday. I'm off to work. Please pray for me that the inmates are in good moods today and they don't hurt me too bad. Cya all on Monday, Lord willin and...

I have this problem too skeeter; only here it's the cows that eat anything that grows even remotely close to the fence. They sure 'nuff leave the weeds growing on the fence though! :rolleyes: I came back to this post, because reading it again gave me an idea. My SO used to have an electric...

Well that's why I mulched em heavy with the leaves. I was thinking that since the ones that fall off the tree naturally sometimes spawn shoots, it was worth a try.

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.

Bluebird, Do you have enough to share or do you know a commercial nursery that I could order some from? My SO tells me that his grandma put them in the chicken's nest and when the black snakes came stealing eggs, they sometimes got an egg gourd instead. They'd eat em and die. Now I'm not...

Right now the verdict is that I am free to use all of the family's old garden space I want for anything I want; but can't expect any help. It's over 2 acres and I plan to not only have vegetables, but something I'm calling my secret garden; where I can grow anything that suits me or brings me...

I recently found a strange looking gourd growing in the woods close to the old family garden space. My SO explained it was an egg gourd and his grandma used to grow them for use in her chicken house. It must have been a volunteer from a long time ago. I kept an eye on it and planned to...

Hi Y'all, It's Kat, again. :rolleyes: Not much I can say here that I haven't said over on BYC. I live in Arkansas with my SO, on the 80 acre farm that has been in his family for 3 generations. He's a police sgt (thus my nick) and I work as a house manager at a group home for mentally...