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How are the seeds stored in order for them to be viable years later? We have really high humidity and that's what I'm blaming for doing in a lot of my saved seeds, some of which had been saved for years. Now I stick them in a plastic ziplock in the back of the refrigerator. Since then, I've...

Is your zone, 7b, considered 'south'? If you don't have a lot of winter chill time, then some of the stone fruits like peaches and such are sensitive to a lack of winter chill. We get specific 'low chill' varieties from Bay Laurel Nurseries in California. They mention how many hours of winter...

Interesting that the main trunk isn't centered in the hedge.

From what my friend said, if they were closer to the processing place, they'd be able to make a little bit of money selling cacao pods to them but it's so far away that they'd spend more in gas to get there than they'd make selling the pods. They only have one or two trees, though. With most...

Around here the pods turn a reddish brown instead of yellow. It's a fussy tree to get started, it prefers kinda a moist forest environment and shady when it's a young tree but more sun when it's grown. I haven't seen it turn into a huge tree, just sorta about the size of probably many apple...

Baymule, you realize there's about a hundred varieties of bananas and you poor folks on the mainland never really get the good ones? Same with avocados, too. Some bananas are really nasty, but others of them are really good. But, YMMV. Good thing everyone doesn't like the same thing or think...

I've had to work at the shop for the past several days so garden construction hasn't progressed very far. The weed mat is starting to be installed, though, so that's sorta progress. I've gotta get it done soon since there's other projects that also need to be done like building the little...

We've got loads of 'edible landscaping' already, this new garden under construction is hopefully gonna be a salad garden while it's terracing the hillside. We can't grow trees on that slope because they'd interfere with the solar array on the nearby roof. Electricity runs about forty four...

Observing for a season is the best, Flowerbug, if one can. Is it too much work to flood proof your garden area now that it's already a garden area? Would dikes work? Although that would require a lot of some sort of material to make the berm. No worries, Zeedman, we've got drainage up the...

Lovely garden, RidgeRunner! If we tried using boards to build a raised bed garden, they'd be rotten within two years. Even if they're treated to start with or some sort of 'rot proof' lumber like redwood, even if we could afford redwood. Why do you have numbers on the raised beds? Is there a...

I'm setting up a new raised bed garden area and have been contemplating how other folks set up their gardens. How do you set up your initial garden site? There's a lot of information about how to plant seeds and raise plants, but what about the initial setting up the gardening area? What...

There's been some community talks between our local government and the rest of us about sustainability that have just started. Hawaii is another non-connected state that relies on too many imports, so they're trying to figure out how to be sustainable again. We used to be, but then the food...

Yup, they get haircuts and the fiber is spun into Hula Bunny Yarn. The commercial HB yarn is spun by some nice folks in Pennsylvania. They mix in some very fine Merino sheep's wool for bounce and a bit of silk for shine and then send it back to me. Then it gets sold in a local shop and we use...

I've never had any rebloom from the same stalk, usually the old flower stalk will dry up after the flowers fall off. What variety are they?

Well, the store bought bag of Navy beans don't seem to be fertile. I planted some and they didn't sprout. I've had good luck with planting beans bought for eating before so I didn't know if it was the seed or something ate them as soon as they sprouted. I tried sprouting them in the sprout...

The lemon trees here never drop their leaves so maybe lemon trees default to making new twigs when they want more leaves? We have fairly high rainfall, somewhere around ten feet annually, but there's also excellent drainage so they don't seem to mind it. Also, if you cut the thorns off, they...

Good job on the multiple bloomings! Do you put special fertilizer or lights on them? Any particular watering systems? If there were a Society For The Prevention Of Orchid Abuse, I'm sure they'd be calling on me. Ours just get stuck outside and ignored until they bloom. Maybe they'd like a...

We're down to basically just lettuce from the gardens since they've been cleared out and replanted. Although, the kale should be big enough to start noshing on soon. Not quite sure what kind it is, a friend gave me the plant. At the time, it had a label on it of 'Butternut Squash'...

Orchids do seem to enjoy humidity and they don't seem to rot like African violets, so the spray bottle sounds like a good choice. Do they bloom for you all year round?

Resourcefulness is probably as good as preparation? Although, preparation for a disaster doesn't hurt! Is this early in the year for lambing? Would there normally be grasses and things for them to eat when they get weaned when they're born this early? How can a doe find enough feed to...