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Hot as hades here with highs 95* and up, for the last three weeks, also pretty dry. Researched how heat affects tomatoes and found that warm night time temps of 75-80* delays tomato ripening? I pick mine usually when they start showing color, but some of what I read suggested to pick when they...

First row in the garden is all butternuts, only 1 pitiful fruit, but the vines all look healthy, no sign of Downey mildew. I guess that's what happens when you plant late. Now I'll definitely have to battle pickle worms,

Just got back from vacation and found all this, neighbor picked squash and cukes on Wednesday, but obviously missed a few. Plenty of green beans, I'll get those in the morning. Cajun Jewel Okra is very productive and tender at 6". Still no squash vine borers. Probably dig potatoes next week...

Anybody growing these? Ordered these from Dixondale and should be here soon. They should be winter hardy here and from what I have read are a long season crop, but I really don't know what to expect?

DW has approved adding these to the landscape allowing me room for more stuff in the garden and I like it. I have a large back yard that I'm sure I could figure out how to fill up, but she says no way. Not complaining though, because, overall she appreciates the garden and is a big help when...

My day job is leading Greenville county's parks and rec department. We received a grant from Clemson's 4-H to create children's demonstration and teaching gardens in our community centers after school programs. Here's a couple pics|

But last frost date is April 15! Dang it's hard to wait! Lots of Alliums, Broccoli, Bok Choi, Kale, Cabbage, and lettuce growing, potatoes in the ground. Been going to the garden at least twice a day and have harvested spring onions and kale. Trellis is up, mulch is down, really nothing to do...

I picked up my coffee grounds yesterday at Dunkin Donuts, and when I pored them out one bucket had sugar in it. Con sugar harm the soil?

i received mine yesterday from the Maine Potato Lady, they were cold and hard without any sign of a sprout! Varieties were Red Norlund, Purple Viking, Satina, and Red Pontiac. Last year I bought organic potatoes from Fresh Market in January and kept them dark and warm for a week, then warm and...

Last week I was showing some friends the worms in the garden, stuck my trowel in 4-5 different places, and there was a worm in every place I dug. The garden is no till with heavy mulch like this and there was a worm in every place I dug, sometimes 4-5. I don't use any fertilizer except grass...

i had a good exchange with @Beekissed in the thread about potatoes and leaving them in the ground for storage or replanting immediately instead of trying to save seed potatoes. How about perpetual onions and maybe other veggies? I replanted the cut off roots from grocery store spring onions and...

Last week I was showing some friends the worms in the garden, stuck my trowel in 4-5 different places, and there was a worm in every place I dug. The garden is no till with heavy mulch like this and there was a worm in every place I dug, sometimes 4-5. I don't use any fertilizer except grass...

Lately I have been craving those first Summer tomatoes, even drove about 20 miles to a farm with huge greenhouses growing tomatoes hydroponically. The vines were a year old and about 12' tall! They were $3/lb. and of course I had to have some. They were better than the grocery store tomatoes...

Some garden friends and their teenage son came over today and helped put up my cattle panel trellis because I pulled my old ones out and here is what it looks like:

help me out here, back in the summer I just uploaded pics from my photo library, no problem. I tried to upload a couple from my photo library using my iPad and keep getting messages that the file was to large. The pics are from an iPhone 6+ and I'm using an iPad 2 to post from my photo library...

Been researching the benefits, do any of you use this product? Seems to good to be true based on the Amazon reviews: http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=cold+pressed+neem+oil&tag=mh0b-20&index=aps&hvadid=3522435317&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=t&ref=pd_sl_9hohg5b3tf_e

Azaleas, Strawbale lettuce mix, potatoes, tomatoes and brassicas: I am now an official believer in the benefit of the wall of water, these early girls were planted 3 weeks before my last frost date of April 15! All survived today's storms!

Anyone using this? In research on the web I found them to be pretty expensive compared to other organic fertilizers and I don't have room to grow my own. One website was pretty good in explaining the benefits and he happened to be from SC, called him and he was about 15 minutes from my office...

Took the afternoon of today and planted broccoli, potatoes, lettuce, spinach, cabbage and some kale seeds. I sheet mulch organically and no till. So, I pulled back the mulch and put the seed potatoes on the ground, added some vermicompost and straw. Will let you know how it turns out!

So, I have a problem with neighborhood rabbits and Broccoli, lettuce for sure. Not sure if they like arugula, kale, Swiss chard and spinach, here is my solution. I'll plant lettuce in the straw bales later, hope they can't climb!