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What is the best way to blanch celery? I haven't planted celery for quite a while, in the past I used cardboard 1/2 gal. milk cartons. Anyone have a favorite method?

Just pulled out all my tomato plants and cut off the potato vines yesterday due to what I believe was late blight. For those of you in SW PA beware.

I don't write very often, but I do enjoy reading all of the topics. This time however, I have to write. About two weeks ago I did a search on how to get rid of moles. They were worse this year than any since I have been gardening. I didn't want to use pesticides and someone recommended Juicy...

Anyone grow and use Stevia? I saw it in one of my seed catalogs and have some relatives that are diabetic.

I wrote in last year about starting some DWB's and couldn't believe how easy they rooted. I cut about 30 cuttings and they ALL started. My question however is should I pinch them back? Some of them got rather high and I cut the tops off thinking the bottom part of the plant would sprout, but...

I decided to take my Dahlia tubers out of storage and didn't realize how much they had grown already. I never had this happen before, some of them have long white spindly stems that were reaching for light, some around 12". Do I plant them as is or should I break off the stems? Will they...

Last year when I started a plant I put it soil after a while. So far this year I have left it in just water and a light fertilizer. I haven't read anything about what to do after you start them. So I guess my question is what are you supposed to do after they are growing?

For those of you who have a greenhouse from Harbor Freight, did you make anything for hanging baskets? I don't think the frame is strong enough to support them. Any ideas? Thanks in advance

I, like some of you on this forum, purchased a greehouse from Harbor Freight last year. I put it together late last summer and let it sit over the winter. Other than having to keep the snow off the roof everything went well. I started a lot of seedlings inside under grow lights and Saturday...

The other day I picked up "Crockett's Victory Garden" at a used bookstore. Probably one of the most practical gardening books that I have read.

Anyone raise Dragon Wind Begonias? I bought one this summer and it stayed beautiful until it was time to bring it in? I took the flowers off so that it wasn't so dirty in the house, but now I am noticing alot of the leaves are dying off. I was hoping to start some cuttings in the Spring and...

Does anyone make their own potting soil? I read an article the other day about using peat moss from a bale and vermiculite but it didn't give any ratios.

I am new to the forum and you may have had much discussion on this already but the "late blight" has been causing a lot of problems in my area. One question that I have is about my potatoes. The plants were able to grow until they naturally died off and I usually let them in the ground...