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I just got my Seed Savers Exchange catalog yesterday. They list an unusual miniature corn (3') that they say "bear 3-6 ears with sweet steel-blue kernels that turn jade-blue when boiled. One of the only sweet corns that can be grown in containers." They sell a packet of 25 seeds for $2.75. If...

When I lived in Santa Barbara, people would just plunk them in the ground on the side of the house and watch them grow up to the second story. They like mild weather.

http://www.naturalnews.com/035688_Monsanto_honey_bees_colony_collapse.html

Thank you for reminding me of the difference between price and value. No matter how little or how much that bulb cost, the flower and the gesture had great value to that dear woman.

And that /\ is why I love coming to TEG.....the wide range of information is just amazing. I knew about the cheddar and purple cauliflowers, but I didn't know about the genetic aspects. And all those other plants-of-the-future? Wow!

Along about mid-June we had house guests and I got a couple of big projects at the same time. The weeding was dropped in favor of hanging out with the guests when I wasn't busy working. As a result, we ended up with a garden full of white clover that drew the honey bees like crazy and allowed...

After a week of neglect, our veggie garden space was completely covered in white Dutch clover and sorrel. It used to be a horse pasture before we tilled it for the first time this past spring. Well, there was no way we could get all that stuff cleared, so we just mowed around the veggie plants...

Hah! Sounds like something my hubby would ask. As for the apples, they were quite juicy and tasty, with a sweet apple flavor that did not have any tartness to it. I didn't notice any difference in the taste of the tomatoes or the peppers, and the squash are still hardening up. :)

I read many articles before I concocted the elixir. I wanted to be sure that whatever I did would not cause harm to the trees, and I was hoping to find a cheap and easy way to nourish the soil. I feel like I got really lucky that it worked so well on the first trial.

I added the molasses based on what I read in this article and others: http://www.ehow.com/info_7976252_organic-fertilizer-molasses.html I found this paragraph to be particularly interesting, and of course my soil was in dire need of the sulfur. Blackstrap molasses packs more nutrients than...

Nice pumpkin, Emsevers! (and a cute hubby, too!) My "big" pumpkin weighed 14 pounds. It will make a nice jack-o-lantern for the kids, but it's pretty average in weight and appearance. Can't wait 'til next year!

Love the slide show of the garden! Ohio Players, top 40 bubble gum music from the late '60s....fun stuff! (although they apparently branched out, based on this record)

Okay, here's the magic elixir recipe. (My husband started calling it that when our peach tree grew six inches in a week after I doused it with this stuff.) Please please please bear in mind that I have very alkaline soil with a pH of 9, so the vinegar was a short-term solution until I can get...

Cat, nope, no insecticides or fungicides, just the magic elixir. Maybe I got lucky, but I think the zillion beneficial insects that we have around here had a lot to do with it, too. When we bought the place five years ago, we seldom saw insects at all. The former owner doused everything with...

Nope, no regimen. All I did was keep the tree watered appropriately and occasionally dump some "magic elixir" on it. Magic elixir is my own blend of organic Miracle Gro, fish emulsion, epsom salts, vinegar and molasses. The other fruit trees that I've used it on are doing well, too, although...

My organic apple tree, this picture is from July 2012. We harvested several bushels of fat, juicy apples off of this tree, and some of the apples were as big as grapefruits!

I am hysterical with laughter over the mental image of exploded aphids and cabbage hurtling through the air over the garden! :D

From what I've read, wood ash would make it more alkaline. From a few of the knowledgeable folks on here on TEG, I've learned that I need to add sulphur. My plan is to strew the sulphur on soil that has been watered and covered with grass/leaves, then water again. A week or so after that...

There's lots in the growing process that I will do different, but the biggie, and the one thing that everything else relies on, is to find a way to lower the ph of my soil. It's so alkaline that the plants can't pull the nutrients from it, even though the soil itself is loamy and nice. I see a...

Smiles, I'm so sorry for what you had to go through. My best friend is a decorated Viet Nam vet. He still has nightmares, too, after more than 40 years. What amazes me is that you and he have both made lives for yourselves despite what you witnessed. Your name, "Smiles", tells a lot about...