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Absolutely be nice to them for a week or so and see what happens. IME the peppers are apt to have the least sense of humor about this sort of thing -- if they survive, they may never do well -- but if you are not going to replace them with new plants it would still be worth putting them in the...

I take it this is some online or on-the-air thing, like their pollen or UV index forecast? If so, I would say IGNORE IT. You should water based on the actual conditions of the soil and plants in your garden, NOT based on how much rainfall you've had. Some situations dry out FAR FAR faster than...

If it is a small area e.g. a 20x20 veg garden, your best bet is a very visible, fairly strong fence at least 7' tall (higher is better but engineering becomes tougher) If the area is too large for a mesh deer-fence to be feasible/affordable, your best bet is to probably ask around locally and...

This is probably a good lesson to, next time you are buying a tree, look closely at its architecture before selecting it. You want one with good distribution of equal-size branches all around the trunk, not one-sided as this one obviously started out; and sometimes it is worth doing some minor...

It's real easy to grow, although harder to overwinter unless you're in a frost-free climate or have room for a big pot indoors. (But you can just harvest it at the end of the summer and eat whatever amount you've got :P) It likes well-drained but reasonably moist soil, and warmth, and sun but...

This. Every word of it. You really wanna correct the tree's growth form or it will do this every year, worse and worse, til important parts snap off messily. Good luck, have fun, Pat

it is not any kind of flea beetle I've seen -- all the ones I'm familiar with are at *least* that tiny but jet-black and super-shiny and rounded all over, like a seed almost. there is no such thing as a baby june beetle... well, there is, but they are maggotty-caterpillary-lookin' grubs, not...

I have never heard of not putting cooked (vs raw) food into compost and am at somewhat of a loss to think why one might say that? Really you can compost ANYTHING YOU LIKE, as long as you are willing to live with the results. The issues to consider are mainly: 1) some things attract...

I tried that variety last year. It sat and sulked for a long time and then some of them died, I eventually ended up with one small unhappy plant out of probably 10 seeds planted. OTOH I generally suck at growing cucumbers, so while I sucked even MORE at this variety than usual, I don't know if...

I figured you were going to just fill all the remaining space with your cukes and bush beans? :P What Reinbeau said about doing successive smaller plantings of your beans unless you deliberately WANT lots all at once. No, they are not tomato-plant size/shape at all ;) The "bush" part of their...

Of course it's fine, don't worry :) If it were me I'd probably put the cukes in the totally-empty bed just because they tend to be viney and sprawly even if you trellis them, and that way you don't need to worry about them flopping onto other plants. And then put the beans in the rest of the...

Perhaps the type plant for the variety was simply growing in a very favorable location in the no-doubt-beauteous town of Arp? Both my sister and mother have successfully overwintered rosemary (dunno what variety) in USDA zones 6/7 without trouble. My sister (in zone 6b at the time) has also...

I dunno, we get -20 F and below here, and my chocolate mint "infestation" is in an area that does not get much depth of snow at all, yet the stuff comes back just fine in the spring (more slowly than my normal mint, it's only *just* starting to poke up now, but a month from now it will have...

Way too many mosquitoes here for any of that kind of thing... :P Pat

Frankly it would probably be a lot more efficient and economical to just *harvest* (from wild weedy areas) stuff for the chickens/goats/etc. If you don't have enough brushy or tall-grassy areas of your own, surely you could find someone who would be happy to have *theirs* kept a bit more under...

Ah, that would explain my not recognizing it, it's an invasive escape-from-cultivation that was not really around when I was living in that neck o' the woods when I was younger. Pat

Just so's you know, virtually ALL seeds available to the home gardener are non-GMO (only exception is the whole debate about crosscontamination among corn varieties). GMO varieties are pretty much exclusively a matter of commercial agriculture, not stuff available at retail. Most all retail...

Would it be possible to get a better pic of the flowers? Or at least describe them (number of petals, etc)? I just can't tell from those photos and that's sort of the "business end" of most ID-ing. My first guess based on what I can see of the flowers would be that it is an escaped specimen of...

It may be a headroom problem, but a lot of people just DO have problems pressure-canning things that contain previously-dried beans, because the flesh of the beans can contain enough air to upset your headspace calculations. I am not sure how much you can actually do about this though? Good...

Taters are like 'maters. They grow roots out from the buried part of the stem. That is why you hill potatoes up, so they will grow more roots out from the stem. Then once the flowers form, the little bits on the roots that are gonna become potatoes start enlarging and, um, potatifying. The...