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Thanks lesa. All the recommended handling, meds, chemicals seem to be too much messing with creatures that have been doing their own thing for a long time. Your beekeeping methods are what we hope to have success with.

Just read the whole thread and am interested in more thoughts on top bar hives. DH and I took a beekeeping class last month and didn't mention that we had purchased a top bar hive since there seems to be some prejudice toward them. One of the reasons for our choice was the ease of removing the...

Wow lots of vining veggies. You must have lots of space. I grew up in Pa and really miss the wonderful, black, fertile soil. We"re trying to grow veggies in red Ga clay.

Thanks for the borage tip. I don't know the plant but will check into it. We are in the mountains and the sunlit patches we have are taken up with raised beds. Hope borage can do OK with partial shade.

I'll be sure to post about our experiences. We have the hive and the bees are on order. The apiarist said Italian bees are the gentlest to start with so that's the type we will try. We are mostly wanting to get good pollination for our gardens and to help the bee population in the area. I saw...

DH and I bought a top bar hive last fall, we are taking a beekeeping class Feb 19 and have bees on order for early April. My Dad kept bees while I was growing up and I often observed him at his chores. We are really looking forward to this new endeavor. Any help, advice, suggestions will be...

Beautiful loaf Greenthumb. I bake all of our bread and use my bread machine on the dough cycle. A great place to let the loaf rise once formed is to heat some water in the microwave and place the bread pan in with the heated water. I always have the 5 minute a day dough in the fridge for rustic...

Thanks for the ideas, I have crushed oyster shell and egg shells. Trying those with the DE should work.

DH and I are having trouble with slugs on our cabbage and would like to use diatomaceous earth but we are worried it will kill all of our lovely earthworms. Will DE penetrate the soil? Also we got our seed catalog order today and the baby chicks are arriving this week. Hooray!

My cherry tomatoes were really looking bad by the middle of August. I had started seeds in mid Feb and transplanted them into 14" pots in mid April. The 9 plants produced well and kept us in cherry tomatoes for months. By Aug the plants had some kind of wilt/virus (?) so I cut them back...

Interesting and scary. I am definitely looking into seed savers for next years crops.

Thanks Steve. Great website. I'm rounding up the ingredients for Magic Mineral Broth as soon as I go off line.

Can't comment on what the Amish use for fertilizer but I know we can't visit Amish country for too long because we start packing on pounds. The best breakfast I ever had was from an Amish woman's kitchen - homegrown eggs and potatoes, homemade suasage and bread. The best fertilized garden I've...

4grandbabies, please share your pickled beet recipe if it isn't a family secret. I put beets in this year, can't say I'm crazy about them but thought home grown would be better than store bought. We all love pickled beets though.

Steve, 26 varieties of tomatoes! Please let us know your favorite cherry, grape, big, cooking etc at the end of summer. I started tomatoes (only 10 varieties), peppers (green and hot), and broccoli last Fri. The broccoli was up on Mon morning and I can see some of the tomatoes sprouting today...

March 4, 2010 and my peat pots are soaking. I plan on sowing seeds of 5 varieties of cherry tomatoes, 5 varieties of large tomatoes both eating and canning, peppers, watermelons, cantalope and pumpkin. My only limits are lack of sun exposure due to living in the woods. I've starting eyeing some...

Gardens all of my adult life whenever possible, chickens since last July. Both, hopefully for the rest of my life!

Grow 4 Food, thanks so much for the great info. Your directions were much better than those on the bag of asparagus.

Oh, Miss Prissy how beautiful! We just planted a crabapple this year and it is also in full bloom but the little thing is only 5' tall. How old are your gorgeous trees?

TS had asparagus for sale this week so I thought spring would be a good time to plant. Well, I bought the bag so into a trench the asparagus will go.