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Here are some suggestions I have for your little babies. 1. You said you often had die off upon hardening off, you might want to try going real slow. I harden off by putting out plants for 1 hr in the evening after work, then 2 hours the next day, 3 hours the day after that, then 4 hours in the...

I know a few professors who use round up every spring on their gardens. I don't because it costs so much. The active ingredient breaks down pretty quick.

I was always under the impression that you didn't want to use store potatoes because of disease reasons, not because of the anti-sprouting agents?

Pear is blooming! Better get the potatoes and peas into the ground! Or wait... I might not be the best person to have to encourage you. LOL Since I too have rocks in my head.

My parents get to eat most of the stuff. For the most part, I grow what is easy for them to maintain and pick for themselves to eat. I do manage to get some fruits of my labor from a south facing balcony that gets no direct sunlight....and am now dabbling in hydroponics... I am lucky our...

Ah gardening. At least you almost had the room and a green house! That would be awesome! Starting too many must be part of gardening. LOL I'll still have to figure out where in the apartment I will be putting everything, and how exactly I'll be transporting everything back to Washington in a 2...

Haha, talk about starting seed to early... I stared tomato seeds Jan 12th despite writing in bold to start March 1st!!! To put into perspective how early was too early.... I won't be putting these guys out till the second week of May... Oops? Nah! I just need to buy more lights to cover the 40...

Yeah, I just snip them off, or just snap them. Thing is, I'm sure some don't make it... but I never notice because there are hundreds out there and I just till plants into the ground when they are more than I want. The safest bet if you want to save most of your daughters, would be to burry the...

I move strawberries spring and fall... try to do it before they really start growing or flowering. But they are hardy in the PNW. If the duaghters don't have roots yet, I used to soak the stem/plant in a bucket of water till the roots form, but now I just burry the thing in the ground if it's...

I would think deer if they were up off the ground on a fence if you have those around. The only bird I know who steals pansy leaves... rather just chews off the stem without eating anything is my tiel.

It was a low budget experiment... Those containers are 1 gallon milk jugs with their tops cut off. LOL I think I just sprinkled seeds in and then thinned to 4-5 plants somewhat evenly spaced. I haven't tried it again yet b/c the indoor grown leaves just didn't have much body to them. They were...

That wire shelf and shop light set up is exactly what I use. I broke mine down into two shelves though, since I'm way to short to manage it if it was at it's full height. I have two shop lights per level I keep the plants about 1 inch below the lights And you can grow lettuce no problem...

If your strawberries are anything like the ones back in washington... they can do snow, ice, frozen soil for a week or two no problem. I do nothing special to my strawberries. They get snowed on, their soil freezes into their root zone, and they always keep on going come spring. Doubt a bit of...

Oh, no, usually the tomatoes go out in mid may with an occasional low 40's at night, but mostly mid 40's at night. I meant that the tomatoes would be long planted before the day/night temps were 60/50F, since our average summer night is only in the mid 50's. I guess one year I planted in early...

I've never grown carrots... but if we waited till it was 48F at night and upper 60's in the day, nothing would get planted till the middle of summer. I've always thought of carrots as a spring sown crop, so I tend to put those things out when it is in the upper 30's at night... at your temps...

I usually put them in a yoghurt cup of water for a few weeks, and then as soon as roots showed up, I put them in dirt. It would be a few months before you had a whole plant.

I've planted beets 2 weeks ago... inside. I plan on planting them outside in Washington in mid march. I find putting seeds into the soggy soil just north of soil results in things finding and eating the seeds before they germinate... or the seeds rotting in a flooded puddle. I'll start the peas...

Yep... pole beans will go up a 6 foot fence here, crawl across the top of the fence for a yard, then reach out to a sunflower or tree, and continue to climb.... I've done pole beans on a 3 foot fence. Just a few and I just run them horizontally across the entire fence in one direction... till I...

Sunlight bleaches things b/c of it's radiation, nothing to do with enzymes in dew.

I always had it in my mind that fresh shavings inhibit growth by 1) secreting toxins inhibiting growth when fresh 2) if not already composted, sucking up all the available nitrogen as it breaks down.