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Okay, this sounds really hillbilly (no offense to hillbillies, but that's what my son called it when he saw it.....) , but I turned an old car roof carrier into melon beds. With the first one, I made the mistake of drilling holes in the bottom. This year I caulked those holes and drilled into...

Okay, this sounds really hillbilly (no offense to hillbillies, but that's what my son called it when he saw it.....) , but I turned an old car roof carrier into melon beds. With the first one, I made the mistake of drilling holes in the bottom. This year I caulked those holes and drilled into...

How did your order from Jung Plants and Seeds go? I just got a catalog from them and the pictured plants look wonderful! I especially love their heucheras -- and I noted you ordered them from Jung. How were the plants? Any problems with Jungs ? Were the plants healthy?

I'm so jealous. We are strting to get a few tomatoes from a plant w wintered-over, chard, kale, peas, radishes, lettuces, but no summer vegetables! But we are eating from the garden... I have a zuchini that is 3" long, so we'll be eating that in a couple of days!

My son is weird like us -- when he was coming home for the weekend for college and I asked what special dinner he'd like, it was usually beans and collards. We start with a bunch of smoked pork neckbones, add any mixture of died beans and a few jars of diced tomatoes, garlic, a few chopped...

btw, when you try to drive it and can't shift gears without wrenching your back, add an extension to the clutch pedal: cut a 6-8" length of 2x4 and use 2 pipe clamps (the ring clamps that you tighten with a screw driver to make the ring tighten) to put the wood onto the clutch pedal. Saves your...

I'd guess that yarrow is great along creeks and other waterways that might flood, as the dense root mass would prevent erosion during high water times. But, maybe that situation also helps to carry the seeds somewhere else! Back to amaranth! I tilled up an old garden area, once part of our...

Same here -- I planted Pink Yarrow but now all is whitish. But, it is invasive. I took a dozen or so horseradish plants in to work today, properly warning all that it would spread like crazy.... But I still had takers from horseradish lovers. Ah, how easily we get suckered in, even when we...

With the roll bar comes the need for seat belts, too. We had to add a doggie basket on top -- our Jack loves to sit in the crate we attached to the top of the engine. He supervises our activities around here, especially tractor work. Buy chains for pulling brush, logs, and all else. I love...

1/4 acre... I feel your pain. We have a couple hundred square yards that has thin growth, and don't have enough to cut freely. A snow storm wiped out a large section of our bamboo and we were devastated! We use it so much. When life gives you bamboo, build a tiki bar???? Have you tried marketing...

Tractor was the toy I'd been begging for for years! It makes life so much easier! Ours has a bucket for the front, so moving everything is so much easier. Used it to place an antique sink on brackets the other day,a job that would've been iffy -- the sink weighs a ton! The tractor made it easy...

Marshall, I love your enclosures! I love it when a gardens structure is made to be beautiful in itself. I was huffy about squirrels stealing my blueberries this AM! My jack russell is slacking!!!!!! I am exploring ways to keep them(the critters) from stealing my fruit (pears and apples) and...

It is the closed cells in the canes that explode. Once they are split for flooring or other products, this is no longer an issue. Bamboo cutting boards are naturally antiseptic. The hard cell walls resist bacteria so these cutting boards are great for meats.

Ours is a unknown variety given to us 30 years ago. It took a long time to make a colony in our woods! Now, it grow to heights of over 20' and can be up to 2" in diameter. Bamboo grown outward from central growth. Each root will have multiple shoots along its length. Strong roots (older...

Oh my... where to start. My hubbie calls my mom his mother, saying she is the only mom who gave him love. Enough said?

I love my bamboo stand! Today I made a pole bean trellis using bamboo cross pieces lashed to locust uprights. (Thank-you, Muggins for the Dr. Martins seeds!) My cukes grow up 4-sided "teepees" of bamboo. with string wound around for climbing. Plant need support? Use a bamboo pole. Orchid bloom...

Yarrow comes to mind. I planted several varieties years ago, and they persist. The difference between other weeds and yarrow is that yarrow has a dense root mat and it is very hard to eradicate.

Privacy never works in a windstorm???? What is that supposed to mean??? Glad someone posted about horseradish. I took a closer look and saw that it was more invasive than mint! Dug mine up and pot them in a big container to save the rest of my herb bed.

I have had poor germination with lettuce until I read a little! Lettuce needs almost no over soil to germninate -- seeds on top of pro-mix will do just fine. I used to start lettuce in the bed, but have better luck starting seeds in pots ( in 6-pack plastic pots or other sowing pots-- I use...

Seeds, as many of them heirlooms as possible. I buy most seeds from Baker's Creek/Rareseed but tried some from Landreth and Shumway in the last 2 years. Heirlooms allow me to save seeds, so that a one-time investment in seed gives me many years of continued use. It takes a bit of gardenspace to...