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We planted 4 grape vines in 2015 and have yet to see any fruit. Fingers crossed for next year! Your grapes look delicious. Well done!

Greetings, fellow gardeners! I haven't been on this forum in a while and am glad to be back. :) I've been growing tomatoes pretty much my entire adult life (I'm 54). This year, even though I am using the same brand of soil (raised beds), same fertilizer I have always used, etc., all of my...

Hi, everyone! I have not been on the forum in quite a while, but I am "getting my garden on" lately, too. I have carrots, beets, bush beans, sweet peas and snow peas and blackeye peas, romanesco cauliflower, early sweet corn, radishes, strawberries, grapes, and golden raspberries in the...

FYI, a little something I learned last year from a pumpkin expert (I work seasonally at a local pumpkin patch) is that the "warty" pumpkins shown on the first page of this thread are known as "galeaux d'eysines". The ones with the external warts such as that variety are best for making pies, as...

I have been wanting to scatter wildflower seeds over our leach fields. I think it'll make it look pretty. That area is in a little meadow area between a couple of trees and gets a lot of sunlight, and I think a patch of wildflowers would bring color and brightness to that side of the property...

My oldest seeds are from 2009. Last year, I planted some squash from the 2009 seeds & it was prolific.

Well, I had a bare root daylily that I forgot about & it sat in a shed, unwatered, untouched for 2 full years. This year, I put it in a pot of soil and watered it & it now has 4 beautiful, lush green fans. I figure if a daylily can survive and still grow, perhaps I can get the bulbs also to...

Hi, Bulb Experts! This is my first time dealing with bulbs, so please bear with me. I found a bag of assorted hyacinth bulbs in the storage unit. I know I bought them in 2013 with the intention to plant them last fall. They are not dried up and appear pretty much the same as they did when I...

We get snow here maybe 4-5 times per winter. First one usually comes between Thanksgiving and the 2nd week of December.... but then again, the last few years, nothing about the weather has happened as it "usually" does. :(

What does one plant in USDA hardiness zone 9a this time of year?

I don't remember the variety of this one.

The raised beds were built last fall/winter. They are made of local stone, built as walls and filled in with concrete. They're really quite lovely. They were filled with soil in April, and I was not allowed to plant until the very last week of April and was not given any fertilizer until...

A mid October daylily from my job for your viewing pleasure. :)

Bob, you actually got it backwards regarding the warfarin/Coumadin thing. Coumadin is the trade name... warfarin is the generic name. I am a retired medical language specialist and spent 30 years as a medical documentation transcriptionist and editor. One can describe how a chemical is made...

There is a trap there, but they are kind of tight on the budget & bought one lousy trap for an infestation of 20+ squirrels. We have yet to catch even so much as a single critter in that trap. The onions and basil have worked better than the stinkin' trap. Last time I was out there, only saw...

My biggest problem is that I can't use any chemicals to kill them, so the grain with warfarin & blue dye wouldn't be acceptable in this case (it's a 100% organic farm-to-fork garden). However, I have discovered that the population seems to have gone down since I started invading their little...

These are definitely actual ground squirrels and are not chipmunks. I am frustrated that I will not be able to get to the garden until Wednesday at the earliest because I'm working my other job Monday & Tuesday. I am going to try the hot pepper trick. The bucket of water thing would be great...

We cannot use poison in the garden. It's an organic farm-to-fork garden. We cannot use chemical herbicides or pesticides of any kind. I told them to buy traps and that I will start digging out the beds, but I'm going to need a helper (those are HUGE and DEEP beds to dig out by hand, and I'm a...

Hmm, that is a thought. It's not just one hole... they have completely taken over the garden. This garden is 3 raised beds made of rock walls that are 11 feet wide and 30 feet long and 30 inches deep! They have created a HUGE mess and have several holes/openings. There are even spots where...

A family of ground squirrels has moved into the raised bed garden at the winery where I am the vegetable gardener. I have never dealt with this particular critter before. Personally, I'd like to sit out there some quiet, lazy afternoon and pick 'em all off one by one with a pellet gun, but I...