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I love my torch! I have the weed dragon that was about 50 something bucks I think... might have been more actually. But, I use it to attempt to torch the gravel drive. Our weeds are established and our ground is almost always wet. Plants steam, smolder, wilt, then grow right back from the...

I start peas in cups to take home to my mom since she can't identify seedlings. Once I seeded between peas with new seeds for the ones that did not germinate. She proudly announced when I came home one day she weeded the peas. Yep, perfectly weeded with not any speck of green other than the...

Everyone says they don't transplant well.... that's about the only way I do them. :idunno Just sprout them, put them into individual 3 ounce cups, and when they are about 5 weeks old with 5 leaves or so.... I put them out 4 inches apart in double rows. Results in evenly spaced 3-4 inch beets...

Heat mats will certainly help in germination of seedlings, especially if your set up is not inside the house. I don't use heat mats because ambient indoor temp is already higher than I'd like, between 66-70, probably a tad warmer by the lights. I do often pre-soak seeds on tissue sitting on the...

I can only say what I do for starting transplants. 1) I have a wire rack with 2 sets of shop lights on each level. This gives me 4 bulbs per layer. T-5 T-8 and what not are just bulb types. I just use T-8 day light spectrum lights in my cheap shop lights because I cannot afford fancy grow...

I'm fairly certain they bear fruit on 2nd year canes.... so we do keep a few walls of canes at property edges (good deterrent to squatters and trespassers)... but dang that stuff grows. And if I were going to sell any of these to anyone, I might have to drive out of the state to somewhere where...

Ah...blackberries. In the PNW, the best way to propagate the wild ones is the machete them to bits, dig them up, turn them into the ground, pull out what you can, and watch the entire area you tried to kill grow back in one year or less. You can burn them, but any 6 inch section of branch that...

I repot my tomato sprouts from a 3 ounce cup, to a 9 ounce cup, to a 20 ounce cup, then if the spring is still cold, to a gallon pot... Becuase without a 10+ week head start, I'd get nary a cherry tomato.

I think my worst hardening off experience was when I drove 300 miles each way to plant my "hardened" swiss chard, bok choi, and beets... to have it snow half a foot the last week of April and have a cold wet start of May.... They all felt like they had over wintered and shot up flower stalks. LOL

Lucky you! I have not even started my seedlings for this year. That's sure a healthy looking plant!

Did you start hardening them off? That happens to some of my starts when I harden them too fast and the first tender leaves get a bit windburned and crispy.

Cold and wet, I bet most of the PNW folks are coated in mildew and mold. LOL I know I am. I stopped planting corn for a few years and will be doing very few tomatoes. We had spring planted snow peas last all summer last year. LOL No two plantings of peas, that was the original batch. ha. Come...

Fire!!!! Those flame thrower weed dragon things are awesome! I just got one and they are great. LOL Not that I can catch anything on fire in the middle of a PNW winter, but I'll be putting it to the test this year to burn and clear a gravel drive and turn around that is currently a few dozen...

Awesome! That's really neat! I've never done it but have thought about it. It costs money for us to enter at our fair (Evergreen State Fair) but do think there is a chance to win something back. The fair is pretty big and semi-commercialized though. Think last time I heard over 750k people...

It is true the new system still has lots of bugs in it that were not found out in the past 5 months of testing. Testing even included an assortment of regular members allowed to play in it pre-release with the goal of finding issues out. The side bar is a common issue and on the huge list of...

We know the change has issues, but when BYC changed 5 years ago to what it was, there were the same issues. As far as complaining... there were so many of them, it was overwhelming. Staff there like here are free volunteers. Some of them are retired, but most have 9-5 jobs and with so many...

The packets should say what kind they are. I do both. Blue lake pole and blue lake bush are the two I often do. The bush beans mature about 3 weeks before poles start. We have mild springs/summers/fall with high's in the mid to lower 70's, so in a short summer, pole beans might not reach their...

It's new and well... this forum format is... rather outdated as far as the internet goes. It is for sure a crazy day!

Same here.... don't think I can be of any assistance.

It'll probably bloom next year if you took a good amount of parent plant to start your new one. Mine is just starting to bloom for this season, but it's 5 years old, started from a parent plant who is now almost 20 back home. It didn't bloom the first year or two if I remember right. I did start...