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I kept telling myself I wouldn't plant any corn this year due to not having great success with it in the past. I probably didn't have a lot of success because of our soil and also because of my planting techniques. I plan on digging a small bed for some corn, probably around 4x4 or 5x5 and...

Here's something awesome today. My brother, though totally grounded for skipping detentions at school, has got a cool school project going on in Science class. They're doing the "TomatoSphere" experiment. He's growing tomatoes, 3 of his seeds were on the space station and 3 weren't and they...

Just wondering what I should use to fertilize my apple trees, I read somewhere about sprinkling 1lb for ever year the tree is in age (up to 6lbs per tree) of 20-10-10 around the dripline of the tree and then watering. It also stated doing it once in March and again in May. Since we get a lot of...

How would one go about treating this? I appears that 2 of my Nectarines have Gummosis, there is a split in the bark down at the base of the tree, they've been in the ground for a year and I just recently noticed the splits. The trees have set leaves and they have some flowers. ETA: I can't tell...

Okay so I found a supplier of Dolgo Crabapples, my next question is if I plant them in my orchard, across the orchard from my Apple Trees will they cross pollinate?

We need to do some landscaping of the front garden this year. Basically it's been just an empty patch with a picket fence, and a large limestone raised kitchen garden by the front door for the past year. It's north facing but gets quite a substantial amount of sun on a regular day due to us...

I know that sounds funny, but I don't know what to call it. One of my Nectarines seems to have sprouted a little tree-lette at ground level. It's about a foot tall, and has some of its own little branches. I was wondering if I could prune it off, and stick it in some root starter junk. I'm not...

I decided to kind of keep a journal for our SFG/Raised Bed garden this year. From construction of the raised beds to harvest, and everything in between. March 15th 2010 Kevin helped me put in the 2 pea beds this afternoon and we filled them up. They could both do with some more 'Mel's Mix'...

I'm diggin' it (lol) lately, anyone else SFGarden who can post photos of your garden? I love Gardenspiration! Any neat ideas for trellis', layout, etc?

I've not had much success with corn in the past but this year I'm trying out an experiment, planting it in a 4x4ft raised bed, polytunneled, so I can plant it earlier than normal. I'm just wondering how far apart I should space my corn? I'm thinking about planting some peaches 'n' cream.

I need to Dormant Spray my fruit trees, and so I bought a Dormant Spray kit. On the box it says you need to spray just before the buds turn green on your fruit trees, on a low-wind, warm day. Now the buds on my fruit trees aren't green, but the buds on my lilac bush are... so on a nice warm...

I found a bunch of 2 by rough sawn pine down in my barn so this year I've begun making raised beds for the garden rather than taking another stab at plot gardening. Weeds seem to congregate on our property, so the use of raised beds and a lot of elbow grease should decrease the weed load we get...

I have some of those big home depot mixing buckets, the white ones with the orange home depot name on the side that they have in the paint section. I think they're 5 gallons, but I couldn't say for sure. I know people have planted their taters in buckets, and I'd like to do that this year to...

I'm a little poor right now lol and I'd like to start some of the seeds I have hanging around. I'm not sure if there is any way I can do it, but this is what I have on hand.. Pretty well composted Duck manure Really composted cow manure (If I can dig it out of the compost pile) Somewhat...

My cinderblocks are frozen in place lol so I'm repurposing some rough sawn 2x10x12ft pine I have hanging around that isn't going to get used on my run-in shelter since I'm going with hemlock as my kick boards to add weight. I'd like to keep most of my raised beds the same size, I have a big...

raised beds? I'm just curious, I have an enormous 20ft by 5ft "raised bed" its 2x10's ontop of landscape fabric with about 5 inches of soil currently sitting in it. I'd hate to have to take it apart to make smaller beds so I'm trying to find a way to use it for something this spring. It has a...

We have quite a few Apple trees now, were all bought from Canadian Tire and other garden centres over the last year and a half. This summer will be our original 2 trees second year in the ground here and they have grown. Our others will be a year in the ground. When do you start pruning? And...

I found an article in my Hobby Farms magazine where the person was making a 4 sq. ft. raised bed out of cinderblock and that got me thinking... We have an old rabbit barn on our property made entirely out of cinderblock. It must have fallen down years ago and all that is left is the cinder...

I'm in zone 5 in Ontario, Canada and I'm wondering what I should plant in early spring, and when I should plant it so it doesn't bolt. I'm thinking broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, lettuce/spinach for spring. I have raised beds with hoop houses over them.

I'm going to be canning all these tomatos, I actually have about 40+ lbs of Tomatoes hanging around the house waiting to be canned. I don't own a pressure canner, and I have heard there are ways to do this in a water bath canner. The varieties are beefsteak and roma tomatoes, I will also be...