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I'm so jealous! I just now started my seeds inside for zucchini... and you guys are eating it!

They aren't spectacular or anything... might as well lop it off. Mine tries to flower every year, and I lop it off as soon as i see it. The plant it self is about 10, which came from a parent plant that was well over 10 at the time the chunk of root I have was taken.

Those huge ones must be chandlers!

I tend to plant may 20th and seed approximately 3x a heavy as "recommended" due to losses in wet damp soil. It's either that or the plants would never mature!

That's what my my little brother and I have done when we didn't have access to a tiller. We each grab a shovel, start digging... and digging... and digging. A day later we rake, rake, rake to get the grass and junk to a single area. Then repeat a month later if the place we dug up was not...

I was going to say that looks like a flower stalk... but everyone beat me to that. LOL It should be hallow.

LOL It's the retro version of the aero garden!

I just stir fry all beet/spinach/chard greens. As for size and dates on packages. I pick when they are a size I want. Dates on packages mean nothing. I have beets planted back home which were sprouted inside in Febuary, so over 60 days old, that will be at least 60 more days before we pick...

None of the apple trees back home in WA have budded yet, but all the plums have.

When do snow peas flower? So back home snow peas went into the ground about 6 months ago and are trucking along like usual and I'll expect flowers soon... and peas soon there after... However, for those who have put peas into pots... how long did it take for them to flower? Dang plants are...

No idea what I grow really... just the red ones from the feed store. As long as I don't touch them, I can get potatoes. LOL But since my parents always tell me do less because it's too much work, I don't really put many in anymore. My mom prefers beans, because then you actually get...

You're not alone in the inability to hill. For me though, it's not that rain washes things away, it's more like if I even get close to the potatoes to pull weeds, they will die two weeks later and that is that. If I don't even step near them, I can dig out a few lbs of potatoes per plant vs...

I start zucchini and jpn squash in cups about 3 weeks early. One seed per cup. I have to do this because I take everything home to my parents to grow and they won't know weed from plant if I don't start it, have it have leaves, and mark it with a cup. My mom weeded out all the younger peas one...

I couldn't even get grass to grow for a pet rabbit with 2.5 inches of soil in a tray... best of luck and do post pics if you can make it work! But... if you go a semi hydroponic route, that just may work for leafy greens. I have a few lettuice growing semi raft style (was ebb flow till the...

Well... if you want to kill diseases and weed seeds, it is good.... but you want organic matter and life in healthy soil.

Never heard of tomato plants carrying infections detrimental to other species. They sure don't seem to stop weeds, grasses, roses, beans, peas, veggies or anything else from growing within a few inches of them. Of course, our cool weather keeps them from growing that fast in the first place. LOL

If your in that hot part of cali I'm thinking of where my coisins live, you could probably put those squash seeds right into the ground! Once they get long and leggy, short of burying them up to their cotyledons, they won't get "better".

6 packs of tomatos just starting showing up at fred meyer out here. $3 for a 6 pack! Then the 4 inch potted ones are 1.50 each. I can't compete with that really... I started a pile inside along with a pile of other plants and have increased the electricity bill by 40 bucks for the last 3...

I used newspaper as a mulch/weed barrier around fruit trees. I laid them down so water funneled to the root of the tree. I'd say the circles were about 8 feet in diameter, with a square foot of uncovered area around the root so water could get to the tree. As for thickness.... I had about a...

Yeah, if you are in so cal... you probably don't need to start inside at all. Up here in WA, everyone starts inside about 2 months early or you'd never get anything off of even a cherry tomato. Cold burn is what usually happens here.