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I would just love to make a few little buildings like this! I could picture one for a hen house, one for a tool shed, and one tiny one for a whimsical little frog/toad/turtle/fairy house. I found the image on facebook.

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/02/urban-vertical-garden-built-from-hundreds-of-recycled-soda-bottles/ This put me in mind of the "gutter garden" that someone started last year. I like this idea because the soda bottles are small enough that most anybody will have room to add a few. I'm...

It's been grey and cold for weeks, and I've been cooped up in the house working on a big spreadsheet project. Finally, this morning, there were a few fluffy clouds but a mostly blue sky. Hubby asked me to walk outside with him so he could show me something. There they were! The first green...

My dorkitude is working overtime lately. Today I am very excited because I am getting FOR FREE 10 cubic yards of stall & stable muck-out stuff from an Arabian horse farm that uses all organic products. They're even delivering it for free this weekend! :tools I told my son, and his first...

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This year I learned how truly easy it is to get sweet potato slips from a store-bought organic sweet potato. I also learned that, while the now-long vines are very pretty streaming along the kitchen window sill, that does not net me any yummy sweet potatoes. Next year, plant 'em! I learned...

My veggies are stunted and I'm pretty sure it's because our soil here is ph9 :(, although it is a decent texture. I've been reading that lightly watering with 2 tablespoons of vinegar per gallon of water will help acidify the soil immediately around the plants. Sort of a short-term fix for a...

I was honored and pleased the other day when one of my friends referred to my "farm." Well I have 2 & 3/4 acres of sagebrush and tumbleweeds, a 40'x70' veggie garden, a strawberry patch, 5 apple trees, 2 peach trees, a pear tree, a cherry tree, an English walnut tree, (no partridge-in-a-pear...

You know how it is....you're sitting there staring out at a cold, dreary grey day thinking that if you don't see some signs of spring soon, you may need to self-prescribe a trip to southern California. Well, that's how I was feeling a few months ago when hubby brought in the mail, which...

A couple weeks ago I gave away all my old flower, veggie and herb seeds from 2010-2011 on craigslist. I stated that they were not fresh seeds, but the woman who got them didn't care, as she just needed anything that might grow, and she didn't have it in the budget to buy anything. I was glad...

Does it grow well in zone 6b-7a? Is it hard to get it into a spaghetti-like shape? What does it taste like? How many squash can I anticipate per hill? Thanks, all!

I don't go in to Walmart very much, so maybe this is old news to all of you, but I found a selection of Seeds of Change seed packets there today. There were maybe 50 varieties of the more common veggies offered in their hermetically sealed ziplock-type of packets. They were all $2 a packet. I...

This vine appeared along a barbed wire fence last spring (2010). The plants around it are all sagebrush and tumbleweeds. It gets no water except for what comes naturally, and in this area that's only about 8" a year, mostly in winter. The example is on a piece of 8"x11" paper, to give an idea...

Okay, so I got the emails that Gurney's and Henry Fields were both closing out for the season, and I could get a grab bag of plants worth $100 for 20 bucks. I figured I couldn't go too far wrong, so I ordered one grab bag. A few days later, the deal was $200 of plants for $20, so I did that...

That's about it. I got an email today that Lee Valley has free shipping from now through Jan 3. Alaska and Hawaii get $13.50 off their shipping fee. www.leevalley.com

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100607/ap_on_bi_ge/us_food_and_farm_bioengineered_eucalyptus Hooboy! I have seen what happens to eucalyptus trees in a wildfire. Because of the high oil content, they "explode" and throw flaming embers for dozens of yards. I don't like eucalyptus trees to begin...

I have a l-o-n-g fence towards the front of our property that I want to plant lilacs along. Since they are only in bloom for such a brief period, I am thinking about interplanting the lilacs with honeysuckle vines, so that they would hopefully twine into the lilac bushes and brighten up the...

I love roses and have plenty of room for them, but not plenty of $$$. So I was surprised and pleased yesterday when I went to Rite Aid and found decent-looking roses for $3.99 and $4.99. I need abundance, not the best quality available, so I picked up half a dozen of the $4.99 bare root roses...

Has anyone ordered from here before? I don't remember where I heard of them, but they apparently only have an online catalog, no print catalog. Packets of seeds are only 35 cents or a dollar, but the 35 cent packets have very few seeds....enough to try something new, enough for me. They have...

Webster's defines "farm" as "a tract of land, usually with a house, barn, silo, etc., on which crops and often livestock are raised for livelihood." By that definition, I guess many of us here are farmers......yeah! We have just over 2 & 1/2 acres that we are trying to turn into a productive...