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My white onions which I wont harvest until fall are starting to push up and are showing above the soil line. Should I cover these with dirt? Many Thanks

Ive got enough yard (about an acre) to raise some little critters. Does anyone have any opinions and preferences on which to raise, chickens or rabbits? Which is tastier to eat? Easier to butcher? Less fussy to keep , feed, bed and raise? Being in Wisconsin we have some nasty winters so I...

I had a good harvest of carrots this year. Today, wife and I canned 21 quarts (3 batches) in our new presto pressure canner which we bought for $80. Anyway, I dont recall which variety of carrot we have, they were supposed to be long and slender but a lot of the carrots are almost 2 inches...

I started harvesting carrots for freezing. Is it better if I wait til october (zone 4) I just thought if I wait then they get tougher or more starchy. Thanks.

This year I planted Sugar Daddy Peas from Burpee. The plants look healthy but the pods are weird. I get a lot of pods that are fat and short with 1-3 fat, mature peas. Other pods look plump, thick and mature but the peas inside are not mature. I have yet to find the classic, well formed pods...

Last year I used nylon string for the pea trellis. This year I use jute string. Both of these sag too much and are mostly useless imo. Does anyone have any good ideas for supporting peas. I suppose I could support the string aver 4-6 feet with little stakes but other ideas I will consider...

Living in Wisconsin we have a frost danger til late May. If I want to plant tomatoes in garden about May 20 then when should I start my tomatoes seeds indoors. I want to give the 'maters a head start but I dont want them so big like bushes in my kitchen. Maybe about 8 inches tall at time of...

Hi, My first 2 years of gardening I planted set onions and they did not grow very large. I think that they did not even grow 50% larger. I do not fertilize but that didnt stop my other vegys from growing well. Any tips on how to improve my yield of onions.? My soil is a clay loam in Wisconsin...

Ive got some seedless popples in my yard. Ive also got some native cottonwood in my yard that seem to grow faster than the popple. I would like to try propagation on these. Is there a trick to this? Do I just cut some brances and stick them in the ground? How do i do this and what time of...

What should I do with my wood burner ash? I get about a 2 gallon volume every week and if I throw it all in my 400 square foot garden what will be the result? Better fertility? PH imbalance? Imbalance of nutrients? Many Thanks for your advice.

We planted 3 pumpkin plant this year, all within a few feet of each other. Had a healthy bunch of blossoms, at least 2, maybe more. But we got only one pumpkin and all the other blossoms just sat there and looked nice. Dont these flowers cross pollinate with each other, or what? How can I get...

Hi, thiis has been my first year gardening. When I tilled up the garden last spring the weeds just kept right on growing as if nothing happened. So this fall I am mulching the garden with 6 inches of grass clippings and tree leaves (ash and maple) and I probably wont uncover it until a couple...