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Wow, I hadn't seen the plant before either. It's so pretty! I'm going to try some next year. If I don't like it, the chickens will.

Some of those pre-planted color pots would be nice. You can hang them if you have the space, or you could place a few pots near the entrance.

Not a fan of the little gnomes. I have a terra cotta frog that I'm rather fond of, though.

You can have her spayed before she goes into another heat. We have a cat who had one kitten that was stillborn. Three days later, she was spayed. I don't know what the time frame would be for a nursing momma kitty, though.

Lets' see, about 21 weeks of gardening at, oh, maybe 10 hours a week, so 210 hours of gardening. (We're kind of casual about weeding and such around here.) In those 210 hours of gardening, I'll grow about $1500 of food, which will all be organic. I'll also have lots of sunflower seeds and...

Aha, another poetry fan! I don't envy you those humid Iowa summers, but oh, that fertile soil!

I ended up planting four plants, since I found a pony pack at Home Depot for 99 cents. Boy oh boy, we'd better LOVE those squash.....they are prolific! Out of the four plants, we have over 20 squash in various stages of development. They're very pretty once they turn from green to that creamy...

Were you thinking of this, Carol? (BTW, are you far from the Quad Cities? I was raised in Milan, IL) "If, of thy mortal goods, thou art bereft, And from thy slender store two loaves alone to thee are left, Sell one, and from the dole, Buy Hyacinths to feed the soul" - Muslihuddin Sadi, 13th...

Ahem....Harbor Freight has an online site, and they have a $6.99 flat rate shipping fee for most items that aren't oversized. www.harborfreight.com

I wish I knew the answer, but we don't have mosquitos in our immediate area. I hope your bees make it through okay. Maybe you can get some advise from your local extension service.

We really enjoyed the Brandywines that we grew a couple years ago. They were ENORMOUS plants, and would easily have gone 7-8 feet tall if we had staked them properly. Lots of nice big 'matoes, and they didn't crack or scald or anything. I got a packet of heirloom seeds that said they were...

We are seeding Dutch clover here and there around the house and gardens to encourage the bees to stick around. So far, so good!

Hahahaha, nittygrittydirtdigger is not so sensitive as to take personally a factual account of shady business practices by some Washingtonian farmers. There's ne'er-do-wells in every state.

That looks sooooo goood! My tomatoes have flowers but they haven't had much growth yet, due to the cool weather we've been having here in SE Washington.

Wow, what an education I get from this site! It never occurred to me that someone would plant with the expectation that it would fail and be paid for by insurance money. (Reminds me of when I lived in Illinois along the Mississippi and people in the low areas would get flooded out every few...

Try some fish emulsion diluted to less than 1/2 of what it calls for on the bottle. I've had remarkable results with fish emulsion, even in my very alkaline soil.

It's been drizzling off and on all week here. We live next to an 80 acre cherry orchard and the fruit is almost ripe. It can't stay wet when it's almost ripe because the fruit will split and be worthless. So they have to get the water off the trees. Do you know how they get the water off of...

That's what I do, too, and they seem to decompose okay if I push them into the soil a bit.

Nice! I need one of those. Don't know why, just know that I need one.

Yep, looks like salvia, aka sage, to me. Butterfly and good bug magnet.