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Im sorry but this is the coolest thing I have ever seen. I am going to try to grow 2 of these and then design a nice patio around them. Says it takes roughly 10 years to grow something like this, I got plenty of time. Where I live, lots of people walk their dogs and ride their bikes and go...

Saw them at the local nursery and they looked real good, to me anyways... I picked one up and its been in the ground since late january. Ive seen lots of videos on youtube of people planting these things, but cant seem to find anybody that has actually grown one to production with evidence that...

Hi everybody, been a nice short and easy winter here in the middle of Ca, looking more and more like spring each day, even if we got rain forecasted this week... Time to start thinking about some projects that need doing. I know nothing about hedges other than the fact that I need one that...

Found these guys on the underside of my cantalope plant, Its not really growing anymore so I pulled it. But I still have other plants I dont want these guys to get into... I sprayed everything down with really soapy water also. I have only seen these on the one cantalope plant. I guess they...

I only have found them on my pumpkin blossoms, and usually only the young green ones at that... They dont move much, even when touched. Do I need to go buy some ladybugs?

So growing a square watermelon is the only reason I even planted them. This thread is going to be my journal of the process. So, the plants are back on track and producing fruits, if youve read my other thread youd see that I moved my potted watermelon plants to a 2 shelf wire rack unit, and...

Hi all, I have pumpkin, cantelope, watermelon, and 3 kinds of zuchinnis growin like crazy right now, good long vines with tons of flowers... However, all the flowers seem to be male so far. I have found only one female flower bud on one of the watermelon plants. Brief background: plants were...

Yesterday it was really windy here in Sac, and I got some damage to my plants. A few stalks of corn blew over and feel like they snapped at the dirt-level... The tops of my tomato plants that stuck above the cage snapped too. The plants are still intact, but they are breaks not just leaning...

Yup, the 4th one in five days... Each one tasted just a bit sweeter than the last I think ;) So my strawberry plants are all in hanging baskets, I have 8 different varieties in 4 baskets, 1 kind in each top part and 1 kind in holes drilled around the sides. Each basket has a june-bearer and an...

Hello all, its been awhile since I posted on any of the "backyard" forums, as I have moved downtown and been remodeling the house... No more chickens yet, but that will soon change as Im allowed 3 in the city now. Anyways, got the garden in the ground during the last week of april and its doing...

once I get my soil in better shape, Im gonna seed a section of my yard with some orchard and oat grass seed I ordered. I have some space to work with, not acres or anything, but a few thousand sqft. What do you think the plot size needed to GROW a bale or 2 worth of hay is???

Around a year ago, I started a compost pile out of the usual stuff from my yard. I dont add food scraps to it. Anyways, its mostly leaves and lawn mower leavins. It just gets bigger and bigger, I never really seen it "do" much . . . I had recently been reading a bit about composting, so last...