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At the moment I'm poring over my favorite seed catalogs, trying to decide on growing a different yellow squash variety or stick with the heirloom yellow crookneck. Is there any difference in taste between the yellow crookneck type and the scallopini (pattypan) squash?

Looks so professional! Real nice..:coolsun

patandchickens--thanks for the comfrey info. I'll keep those flower stalks cut!

I have a comfrey plant in my garden. When DH took the garden fence down in the fall, the chickens attacked and ate that plant clean down to the ground! I'm curious to see if it will come back. However, they don't really bother my basil, oregano, or thyme. Comfrey is great for bruises and...

Such a nice flower garden in that photo, digitS'. What are your secrets for growing statice? I haven't had luck growing it...a shame, because it dries so well.

I've gotten my Cranberry Reds from Wood Prairie Farm. They have more than just heirloom potatoes (GMO-free grains & bread mixes, dried fruit, some seeds). You must try the Rose Finn Apple Fingerling potato--absolutely delicious! www.woodprairie.com

For tomatoes, I like Green Zebra, Old German or Hillbilly (red-yellow striped), Black Krim and Garden Peach. In another thread I've mentioned Pizza Pepper and Tennessee Cheese Pepper (great for small stuffed peppers). If you want a pretty variegated pepper plant with moderately hot...

Reinbeau--tell me more about the Green Anellino... Does it freeze well? (or can, whichever method you used) How tall did the vines get in your garden? Was it productive? Are they stringy, even when young? I've been growing the Kentucky Blue, but I'm always interested in trying heirlooms. I...

patandchickens--I like your little teepee. I've made one for the chickens before out of cornstalks when I cleared the garden. Some of the hens used it to get away from roosters. :happy_flower

DH has an 19 year-old TroyBilt Pony (rear tines), still going strong and never had anything done to it. That's pretty good considering our soil is heavy clay with lots of rocks. The tines are worn down to the point that they need replacing--I'm sure that will be expensive. He bought me an...

I've managed to grow ornamental corn beside the sweet corn by planting the 2 types at different times. If you plant an early sweet corn first, followed by a late-maturing ornamental corn 2 weeks later, then the 2 types shouldn't pollinate simultaneously. I'm interested in hearing what other...

That's a beautiful wreath....your wife is talented. I see Nigella (Love-in-a-Mist) in it, that's one of my favorite flowers. I have a dried flower arrangement in an antique mason jar that consists of Nigella, river oats, strawflower, goldenrod, and a couple of blue hydrangea blooms from my...

You did real good! :weee

Thanks for replying Southern Gardener...I have one of those too. It does great for leaves, but, I'm needing something that will grind tomato vines, corn stalks, etc.

What brand/model do you recommend? I'd rather have electric--less noise and no fumes! I just need something that will shred garden debris and leaves to expedite the composting process, so something that chews up big sticks isn't needed.

You're lucky Carri that your chickens eat potato beetles. Mine won't touch them. They ignore the bean beetles as well.

I just pick the beetles off and crush them on the ground. The larvae and eggs are soft enough to squish them in place on the leaves. It also helps that I grow my potatoes in wire cages and the vines are kept upright and it's easy to inspect the leaves frequently. I've done this for the last...

Do you like black walnuts? They begin to bear in about 5 years. Every spring I have to dig walnut seedlings out of my flower beds that were planted by squirrels. I have 2 trees and my neighbor has 4--all were "gifts" from the squirrels. If you need to start your English walnuts and...

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I have a rabbit problem too. I use the 4' plastic deer netting to keep the chickens out of the garden which worked perfectly fine until the rabbits chewed holes in that. Now, I have to run a roll of wire poultry netting along the bottom to keep the rabbits out. It turns out that chicken...