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Sounds interesting. Something to consider is finding a way to quantify store bought fertilizer vs using chicken fertilizer. I assume your chicken fertilizer will be composted chicken poop with bedding vs most commercial stuff being purified quantified liquids? Perhaps using 3 ounces of dry...

If you are just going to start the plants off for a month or so, you can get away just fine with fluorecent strip lights and daylight or grow light tubes in the 4 foot lengths. That should cost maybe 20 for the lamp, and 25 for a pack of 10 bulbs. You don't have to get dedicated grow lamp set...

Starting seeds in only a south facing window has never worked for me. They always stretched out and were too weak. I did however buy a cheap shop light and daylight bulbs and keep that about an inch or less above the tops of the leaves which works great. Too high and the plants will stretch...

I've done pole beans, peas, lettuce, cherry tomatoes and some flowers on a 100% north facing balcony out of buckets. It only gets early morning and early evening light when the sunrise/sunset sweeps a bit north. So with actual ground space that is not covered on top with a balcony, I say you can...

It is so fun to make! I made a whole bunch of them. Found the federal minimum to call extract extract was something like 14 ounces per gallon of liquid.... after some math, I put 3.5 beans in per 4 ounce jar of pure vodka. I aged mine for 4 months. Used beans = vanilla vodka. LOL

A lot of places here do that. I think they are told to bag meat separate or doube bag, because of pathogens that like to live in meat cases and inevatebly drip to the outside of packages... of course, I bet ya someone probably sued someone because meat juice got on their veggies.

It is probably late for any harvest this year, but if you can find them potted and growing, they should be good for next year. Ruhbarb at my house north of Seattle has not only grown out, but also has been harvested for the year. The rest of the year they will grow green to store up for winter...

Bringing your own bags is like second nature if not required for many both here in oregon and back home in washington. The checkers must be used to it since they never say anything and bag just as fast as if they were using the plastic ones. The "did you remember your bag?" signs have been up...

Your summers must be hot... there is no such thing as a later season pepper in the years I've tried. LOL But I've since just given up...average day temps in the mid 70's for the hottest part of summer = waste of time/space/energy.

Central = Redomnd/Bend/LaPine to one who is doing a temp stay in the willamette valley for school. :p Welcome! I hear in Bend tomato's grow as well as they do in WA... which is not so well for anything not short seasoned.

Yeah... if your short season is like my short season... I'd let all the flowers go on a bushy plant. If your plant had 3 leaves, I'd pinch, but in a short season area with a bushy plant, bring them flowers on! I figure I will NEVER see a human height tomato or pepper plant in the PNW that is...

Not sure about so cal, but up in wa/or, blueberries turn red in fall and lose their leaves for dormancy all winter. About april or may is when they start to show life again with leaves/flowers. Your little guy just might be stressed still from planting out. As for acidic soil... that is pretty...

I'd probably pick that pepper off along with the little guy at the top starting to form. Looks like the little plantlet got stressed out prior to transport and popped out a flower in last ditch to reproduce before it died. But now it's in the ground, it can grow up more before setting seeds.

A small rose plant popping up from the roots will look exactly like the parent plant... at least mine do, and I trim them all off if they are root off shoots b/c the few I have are grafted hybrid teas. Hope it wasn't poison ivy! As for dead branches... If it is dead dead, I just cut mine off...

Nice, that thing best got an auto water system, or that'd be a pain to keep up with! In the "heat" of summer, when it is 80 outside... my 4-5 gallon bucket tomatoes on a North facing balcony will drink a half gallon each... if there is a heat wave into the 90's, they drink a gallon a day and...

So I sowed some snow peas in buckets back in January. It's now mid may, these plants are 4 months old, and they are finally setting flowers! :ya The exciting part is that these guys are way ahead of season for where I am located. I don't anticipate flowers back home in Everett till July! No...

I removed that link because it's giving me a virus alert for the page....

NC sounds like a warm place... the earliest of the early corn goes in the ground... oh two weeks from now?

If they are still green, they are alive. Start to worry when they are mostly yellow and brown. They look better than most my spring transplants. LOL

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