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I'm SO EXCITED! As you might know, I have a VERY small allotment for living on just over an acre.. there is only about 400sf plantable what with the geese, chickens, dogs and seasonal meatbirds or turkeys. Anyway.. my LOVELY LOVELY neighbor has tilled up part of her old garden space and...

So, two of my tomato plants, a yellow pear and a pink brandywine are now more than 5 foot tall. I have forced them into this wooden trellis as they grew, it's beautiful and totally full and now they are standing above the trellis. They have small fruits and look great. I've babied these with...

Hi everyone, I appreciate your clicking here to read. I have a lovely rosemary bush.. I've had this thing for I'd say maybe 7 years or more. It used to live in a pot because I didn't own a home, it was in fact the only plant I had. It's lived in TN, FL, back to TN, back to FL and finally...

So today I was picking up some feed at the feed store :) and my most awesome feed store lady offered me some of her really-starting-to-look-sad-seedlings that should have been planted last week! Some are better than others, I picked the best ones out and I think they'll do fine! So now I am...

I've been scouting high & low for interesting things, and am so excited to have a few "weird" things growing in my garden. They are strange to me, maybe not to you, and I don't know how any of them taste yet because they are totally foreign to me, but still I'm excited. I've recently ordered...

If only they actually BUILT things instead of destroying them :( I'm so torn, I wanted to find a way to discourage them, but then read that the only thing to do is kill them but I certainly DO NOT want to contribute to killing bees, that's one reason I stopped using the Carbaryl powder... the...

:weee :tools I've made it, April 15... and so have MANY of you!! Congratulations!!! Today I have a dozen or more plants ready to transplant to outdoor spaces from the cold frame and today is what I was waiting for! It's a good thing because my 2nd round of seedlings are starting to move...

Pretty self explanatory eh? Say your filling a 10X10 vegetable bed that is 2' deep. In the past I've used potting & garden soil but WOW that was pricey and the beds have lowered their levels and I don't want to buy more bagged soil. Another I used straight top soil and amended the holes I...

I stationed some chickens in part of the corn patch this winter in a 10 X 10 dog run. All winter I layered in the stuff... started with dirt/clay then some wood chips, then some leaves, then some straw, then some leaves and some more straw... then the rain.. so more straw and more straw and...

Perhaps this isn't a smart question, I have lots to learn still on the topic but too much to learn at once... a shortcut would be great in this instance. Before I buy the next seasons seeds... how can I be certain they are not genetically modified seeds? Are there guidelines?

We've been shoveling our clay for 3 years now, turning it over, breaking it up by hand, and TODAY, RIGHT NOW DH is on his way to the hardware store to rent a tiller for the day!!! :ya This is SO exciting :weee For a year now, we've been piling up the leaves, the chicken poop, the sand &...

I'm trying to find a recipe close to the ones that I usually use at home... I found a beef stew recipe... Can someone tell me if tomato sauce, water & broth are interchangeable in a meat recipe??? and could I use chicken instead of beef or by the same token, ham or pork interchangeably?

So I canned a bunch of my sweet potatoes, BUT when I was done I noticed that the water was really orange and that half the jars were only half full of syrup. Are they still ok? And is this normal? Does anyone know what I did wrong? I'm leaning toward not leaving enough headspace... it was...

We did it! :D Today we dug up 2 - 5 gallon bucket fulls of sweet potatoes.. some are in excess of 4lbs!! HUGE! It frosted a bit last night & the night before, I didn't know I should pick them before the frost. Are they ruined? They look great! Now what do I do with them???? I'm SO happy...

I am considering using these construction mixing tubs from Lowe's, I have a few on hand, and they must be at least 8" deep, a couple of feet long and maybe a foot & a half wide... what might be suitable in this type of shallow rectangular container?

Ok.. so i was excited.. I am ALWAYS excited to order the seeds... then I plant them in seed starting pots, then the cat won't stop laying by them so the soil gets full of her hair (sometimes she eats a couple when they get bigger but this is less a problem than her fur!!) and so we pick out the...

Ok.. started collecting my seeds for this year :celebrate ... so far I have: Pepper - California Wonder Spinach/Mustard Tender Greens Cantelope Cucumbers Iceburg Lettuce Carrots (shorty carrots) Sugar Baby Watermelons now I have to order the rest...I'm so excited!!!!

What should I plant in a small chicken garden for the winter? I have a 2' X 7' row in our new aviary addition as well as another 2' X 11' row. The plan is to plant them with things our chickens can graze on. The planted areas are tented with chicken wire, so they can't get to the dirt/roots...

Hi, I'm not really a new gardener, but I am still a total idiot. I always figured, if I plant it, it should grow, but that's so not true. Recently I figured, if I just follow the directions on the packet or plant, it will grow, again, so not true. I just don't seem to have any basic...

Well... my daughter, husband & I dug out a 10X5 area approximately, and raked the soil, plus some added brooder bedding, into rows & planted 5 corn plants in each row, only 4 days ago. They are ALREADY sprouting!! Isn't that crazy? The package says 10-14 days of course, as all do, but 4 days...