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Hi all, so I bought and planted 2 gooseberries this year for Mom on a whim, because she wanted gooseberries. Thing is, neither of us have ever had them before. I don't think I will get any berries this year, but what do you do with them? Do you eat them raw? Cook them? I used to have a very...

Hi all, long time no see! Quick question, still haven't managed to make it to plant my garlic this fall. I have had several frosts, but the ground isn't frozen yet. I should have tomorrow off, still safe to plant it?

I have had too many hornworms this year, I can't keep up with picking them off my tomatoes by hand and they eat more of them every day. I am using DE to deter them, but that really is only slowing them down. A quick search with google tells me that tilling the ground breaks their life cycle...

Hi everyone! It's about time for me to order my seed garlic for the fall, and I'm always on the lookout for new varieties. This year I am growing a silverskin for storage, I would have to dig out the invoice to be sure, but I believe it is sicilian silver. What do all of you plant?

I only see the occasional honeybee on my property (usually checking out my empty hives), but I have a thriving population of carpenter and bumblebees. Turned on one of the outdoor water faucets earlier this week, and after the water had run a solid minute, it spat out three huge carpenter bees...

Just wanted to start a garden thread of my own, so I quit hijacking others threads. Also a good way to be accountable in how often I get out there and work! My lawn and garden goals this year: 1) Fence in the side yard for the dog. If money allows, fence in the front side yard for him as...

Hi there, I am having a problem with my new dog that is really stumping me, so I could use some advice. Earlier this summer, my family rescued a starving great pyrenees that had been on his own for months. He's an awesome dog and he meshes well with us, but now that we have had him a while and...

Am on the lookout for good gardening books to read this winter while it is cold. Picked up a copy of a raised bed vegetable book: Grow All You Can Eat in 3 Square Feet. Anybody have any favorites to recommend?

After a two year experiment, I have decided raised beds for my vegetables is going to be my best solution for my situation. Next week I am planning on adding several more raised beds, then mulching them to rest all winter before planting next spring. I have a question though, my test plot is a...

Everyone always says to get rhubarb crowns when a friend divides...but nobody I know grows rhubarb. The old farmstead my father knew of that had it got plowed under last year. I love the stuff....the more ways I find to fix it, the more I love it. I found an old pack of rhubarb seeds in my...

Are keeping me from working outside at the moment....they are swarming everywhere and everything. Will misquito repellent work on them? I picked them out of my hair yesterday, just from walking to get my mail. I am allergic to bee stings....halp!

I am curious....now that the days are getting shorter, I am losing gardening time. I did the bulk of my work in the mornings while it was still cool before I went to work, but now I'm driving to work in the dark. After work is usually a no go for me, unless I can do it in five minutes or less...

with the extreme heat here this week, no actual gardening is happening until it cools off a little. I am sitting here with garden plans for next year, and a list of issues and other thoughts i have had so far this year to implement next spring. I grow my veg in raised beds, after a couple of...

Hello from central illinois! I am still new to gardening, although I did help out in my family's garden as a kid. I currently have a very old, very rough farmyard I am trying to make productive again. Right now my biggest nemesis is the bindweed... Hoping to find lots of inspiration and more...