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My hens may not appreciate this post..but eating weeds is a wonderful means of attacking them..Serve them right..lol In studying more about the different kinds of weeds that continue to pop up in my veggie garden, (in spite of the drought like conditions this summer), it turns out many of them...

errh.. Horse...Radish that is..;) I made the mistake of running over some horseradish a two years ago with the tiller. Every little chunk of it has now sprung up over a 20'x20' area, and seems to be growing with relish, (pun intended). You cannot leave a single little piece of it in the ground...

Farmer Fred was in the fertilized egg business. He had several hundred young hens, and 10 roosters to fertilize the eggs. He kept meticulous records, and any rooster not performing well, went into the soup pot and was replaced. Keeping track of this took up a lot of his time, so he bought some...

Good pictures of many common weeds available here. http://www.gov.mb.ca/agriculture/crops/weeds/index.html

This year I noticed this type of grass growing in the garden, and early in the season I was keeping up with hand pulling it. I didn't know what it was until I did a image search this morning..turns out it's crabgrass..:rolleyes: I don't know where it came from in the first place, perhaps bird...

I was at a birhday party dinner last evening where some Pattypan squash were served in a mixture of other veggies. Least I think they were Pattypan...is there others that look similar? I wondered about the growing conditions required for them. Anybody have some in their garden they can tell me...

My plants are loaded with fruit, but I have only had a handful of ripe fruit off of them so far. starting to get me worried, as the night air is pretty cool, and we are getting many overcast days. Other years, I would normally be picking a bowl full every day for the last two weeks. Odd that...

A few links for those harvesting winter squash.:) http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/hil/hil-24-c.html http://www.foodreference.com/html/artwintersquash.html http://extension.oregonstate.edu/news/story.php?S_No=699&storyType=garde http://www.gov.pe.ca/af/agweb/index.php3?number=70480 I have...

A few pictures of how things are coming along in the veggie garden this year. BROCCOLI- I can never seem to get the huge heads like the commercial variety, I don't know if this is a result of trying to grow organically, or the species of seed I chose. Great flavor non-the less! BUSH BEANS-...

I have grown some wonderful heads of cauliflower over the years. This year my heads don't look very good. They are not tight and firm like they should be, but rather loose, and the floret clusters vary in height.. They are the exact same seed I have grown in the past, the self blanching...

As the saying goes, least for for plum trees.. Seems an odd time to prune a tree. You think it would be hard on it considering the sap is flowing. I spent the last several days pruning my other fruit trees, and sure am tempted to do the plum trees, they look like they're begging for it....:lol...

On the advice of a friend, who claims that savory is far better a herb to use then sage for chicken or turkey dressing, I bought a winter savory plant. (it certainlysmells nice) The little info card that came with it says "short lived". Hmm I don't know if that means one month, or one year...

The garlic I planted last October has long since been pulled and dryed, and is being eaten with relish..:P That garlic when it started to show signs of seeding, had your typical capes. I noticed a new volunteer growth in the garden around the beggining of August, which is now going to flower...

We had, as several areas seemed to a longer hotter, dryer summer than normal. Two of my apple trees really suffered as we are on well water, and I couldn't afford to heavily water as much as I would have liked to. The early ripening variety, dropped almost all of it's fruit, almost like it knew...

This is the first year I bothered to grow Hubbard squash. I usually have good success with zukes (of course!), butternut, and spaghetti. Well I can't believe the size of these Hubbard's! They are huge. It would take a crowd of about 25 people to just eat one of them. :o They must weigh 30 lbs...

Well I must say I was not impressed with the total harvest of the English cukes I painstakingly fussed over. I planted some in my greenhouse this year for the first time. I thought the conditions couldn't be better for that variety, as I know they are usually grown commercially in hothouses. I...

Just the last two days I have noticed several of these showing up in my veggie, and flower gardens. They are a pale yellow, about 1-1/2" long, and very fuzzy. I have never seen this kind before in my entire life, and was curious as to what moth, or butterfly may lay them. They are one of the...

My english cucumbers, that are in the greenhouse, are starting to have all the leaves turning a pale green. The other thing I notice is that the developing cukes themselves, are fat at both ends but thin in the middle. I have never been totally happy about the number of female flowers vs male...

I can't believe the numbers of beans I have been getting this year. I planted green and yellow bush beans, and although slow to start, they sure have been producing. Just yesterday we harvested 10 lbs of greens, and 14 lbs of yellow, and we had already been picking them almost daily for the...

I have recently seeded more broccoli, peas, spinach, lettuce's, bok choy, and guy lan, radish, and green scallions. All of them have sprouted! :) I will keep my fingers crossed for a nice warm Indian summer. The green and purple cabbage I planted from seedlings I started in the spring are yet...