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Here's a few pics of my 2014 garden. I hate to brag but...what am I saying? I love to brag about my garden. Anyway, it's the best garden I've ever had.

I need a bean expert. I planted a 4'x8'x1' box with purple speckled butter beans (giant limas for our friends up 'Nawf'). I treillested them and trained them to it. The foliage is absolutely beautiful and everything seems to be healthy. Lots of little flowers and my bees are working them...

Anyone have a really good recipe for an insecticidal soap that really works? I've got these tiny little caterpillars about 1/2 inch long, pale yellow with black stripes and about 1/16 inch diameter. They're making a mess of the rutabaga leaves. I turned the leaves up and there'd be three or...

A week or so ago I reported that we'd found a crate of sweet potatoes we'd stored in the garage last fall so they'd keep through the winter. They did. We ate pretty much all we had in another crate we had in the pantry in the house but we'd forgotten about the ones out in the garage. When...

Well, I think I'm done, at least for the moment. I hate to brag... well, that's like total B.S... I love to brag on my garden. Now you sit there and look at these pictures I took with my little brownie box camera:

Well, we have big speckled butter beans in the ground now. That's Giant Speckled Lima beans for you folks up north. They's just butter beans down here though. Got the 'maters in, bush beans, shallots, onions, 'taters, sweet 'taters, carrots, burpless gourmet cucumbers, yellow summer squash...

I put in six Keefer pear trees in late 2012 and this year they put out a lot of blooms. Don't know if they'll make fruit but they sure were pretty. Our bees were all over them because they were probably the first things to bloom around here. Anyways, a question. Two of the trees are going...

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more. Spring has sprung and I've finally gotten all my boxes cleaned out and ready to go. It has been a lousy winter and early spring down here in the South. We are still getting frost and more is expected later this week. I am so over winter...

A week ago we had two bee swarms that Teresa managed to capture and we added our seventh and eighth hives. Today I had just sat down on my garden stool after planting a box of peppers. As I was taking a long swig of water something caught my eye down the tree line above one of the hives. A...

Since I was out taking pics of the Chinese Cabbage I was asking about I took a bunch of other pics so now you have to sit and look at 'em... These are my Red Kennebeck taters on the left, Yukon Gold and fingerling taters on the right, cabbage, collards, and romaine behind them. 'Maters...

Hey, does anyone have any idea why my Chinese cabbage is flowering? The plants are very healthy and have been looking great since I put them in the ground but in the past few days they have been putting on little yellow flowers. They've not started to head up yet. What gives? Should I pinch...

First off, it was great to hear the E.U. news concerning certain pesticides. Hopefully it will translate to action here by our Do-Nothing politicians in D.C. But what I'm actually reporting is that we have had three swarms in the past two weeks and we apparently lost one of them. But my...

I've got 10 lbs of seed potatoes in the sunroom that are sprouting out all over the place. I've got to get them cut into seed pieces and dusted with agricultural sulfur so I can get them in the ground tomorrow. But first I have to rebuild one of my boxes. I got my weedeater out this afternoon...

Well, after Friday morning's 21*F here in central NC I thought for sure we'd have to restart our lettuce, cabbage and collards that we'd put out just last weekend. But we covered them up and there's a little burning of the Chinese cabbage's lower leaves but they look like they may be OK. I'm...

I just bought three 6' Gloria Grande Papershell pecan trees that came with the roots in spagham moss in a plastic bag. They're a Stuart pecan variety. I now know that I will need to find another variety for pollination purposes even though we have a lot of hickory trees in the woods very close...

Has anyone gotten their garden porn yet? I mean the Baker Creek Seed catalog? I've gone through that thing four or five times already and I've made a list a yard long of seeds I want to buy. Last year I ordered some of their melon seeds including a packet of the Tigger melons. The ones we...

Can't wait for spring. The garden has been cleaned out and I put down straw over all the boxes back in November. Today I'm going by Southern States Co-op to pick up a flat each of Dutch and Chinese cabbage, collards, brussell sprouts, etc. and have them ready to go in some of the boxes in...

I've got the day off because it's MLK day and I've promised myself I'm going to work in the garden. Back in the fall I cleaned out all the boxes and covered them with straw but there's one area where I have a 70x4 foot raised bed where I grow okra, winter squash, beans and corn. I'm thinking...

We're still getting beans, peas, and okra from the garden and we've not taken up the sweet 'taters yet. We've got a whole 10x4 box of those that I'm waiting for the first frost to kill the vines before we take them out. I've let a good bit of the okra go to waste this fall just because it...

Well, we finally decided to see if there were any potatoes underneath the vines that had pretty much died back. Out of this one 4'x10'x12" box we took out a whopping 96 lbs of beautiful Kennebeck Reds. There was a white 5-gallon bucket along with this red bucket seen in the pic below full of...