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I've read that carrot greens are edible, is this true?

Decided to have a garden salad for supper tonight to go with the grilled and spiced chicken breast, went to the gardens and cut some chives with the flower head to add color, spearmint leaves, dill leaves, spinach, lettuce, sliced radishes, radish greens, home made croutons with ranch dressing...

I'm pretty upset, made strawberry jam this morning and it came out like a syrup, it didn't gel up like it should have. I made a mistake when I bought the pectin, I bought instant instead of original pectin and still tried to use it. Is there anything I can do or should I just save it for...

Some of the vedalia onions I planted about 2 months ago are growing really well, they're forming nice bulbs and look healthy but are forming flower heads, is that normal? I thought they only did that when they were left alone to go to seed.. :rolleyes:

I'm wondering where I can get half gallon or gallon ball jars and plastic lids, I did a search at ball.com and found only canning as in can products and no glass jars there, so now I don't know where to find their glass products, can anyone help? Thanks..:idunno

Ok, I planted garlic cloves last summer, maybe July or so, they sprouted, grew a bit and the greenery died off and they went dormant and started to resprout this winter. Now I have about 6 to 8 new sprouts where I planted one clove last summer. The cloves never did develop full size bulbs but...

The gentleman who sold me the corn seeds told me to throw two kernels in each hole when I plant it, my question is if both seeds pop up do I pull the smallest one or do I leave em both.. I should of asked him... :idunno

I planted my corn last Saturday and when I checked them this morning I have some that popped up overnight, the soaking rain we had overnight must of worked its magic! :weee

I got one of my gardens tilled yesterday and made 14 eight foot rows about 30 inches apart for my corn, feels so good getting it planted, I didn't get to plant any last year because I got a late start with my large garden. My question is: I don't want to use chemical fertilizer but I do have...

Where do I start, well I'll start with the onions, I'm in zone 7b btw. I planted onions last August and the took pretty well, the question I have is is that since they have been planted that long why aren't the bulbs growing yet. The onions are vedalia, the tops are large and very green but the...

I went outside for my morning coffee and smoke this morning and checked on my raised beds like I do every morning, rain or shine or cold and nothing much had changed in the raised beds I threw a few seeds into a little over a week ago, this was about 7 am. Well at about 10 I needed to go out...

I was thinking the other day about how long I've been gardening, both veggie and flower. Come to think of it most of my life or at least since I was ten or eleven years old. You'd think since I'm 51 now that I would know a lot about it, but it seems that the older I get the more I realize how...

Last year I started keep track of how many pounds of veggies I've grown in my gardens, my gardens add up to a total of 600 square feet of planting space and produce roughly 305 lbs of veggies. I had a bad year with the tomatoes because I didn't stake them, big mistake, I lost 3/4's of the...

I live in zone 7b, just about 20 miles south of Charlotte NC and I'm wondering when I should uncover my strawberry plants I have in my raised bed or should I just let them grow through the 6 inches of leaves I put on them last fall, anyone have advise for me? :idunno

I picked a couple carrots this afternoon to nibble on for a healthy snack, nothing like a garden snack. Well I only ate one and the other just sat on the table, I thought I was just going to throw it in the compost pile later and went on with my day. Well later I decided to throw some ribs on...

I've been unemployed for about 3 months now, at first I didn't know what to do with myself till about 4 weeks into the layoff. I got the urge to keep myself busy to I started to renovate my house so it began and almost 4 months later now I haven't taken a day off till today when the temps were...

I'm in zone 7b and itching to get started, I've got those 6 new beds ready for planting and am wondering what veggies I can plant now, is it too early for beets, lettuces, rutabaga or whatever else. Also I lost a good site that gave me good planting time info in my area, does anyone know of a...

I hope this year brings you all the best and most productive gardens you've ever had! :woot

I know you are supposed to cover strawberry plants for the winter and most say with hay or straw to keep them from freezing over the winter. Well about a month ago after all the leaves have fallen I raked up all the leaves and covered the strawberries with about 6 inches of leaves. Now that I've...

I finished building my 6 new raised beds today. The wood was free from a construction site, they are three inches thick by eight inches wide oak planks, should last me a few years. The worst part was shoveling the 2 yards of compost into the beds, taking a few advil now... Now I can't wait to...