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some of us are familiar with Etsy.com but did you know you can buy seeds and in some cases plants? I have my eyes on some little finger carrot seeds and sugar baby watermelon.

Potatoes and peas this week, glad I waited after freezing temps this week.

I have several sunflower seed heads, the only thing that did well this year. How to I save them? I want to keep them to give to the chickens this winter as a whole head.

I love decorating with the "weeds" I find this time of year. Makes a beautiful decoration and costs me nothing. The large pumpkin and the green one I grew. The green one was my Big Max that the dog dug out (gggrrrr). The hollow logs my son brought home when cutting up logs. theres a...

When pulling weeds and cutting off Trumpet vine ( :somad ) I discovered my dog found a nice cool place to lay in the flower bed and dug out my Big Max pumpkin vine, it already has a pumpkin growing on it (stem is the size of my wrist) this was going to be a huge one. It was wilted but at first...

all this rain weve had has about done me in. I replanted my corn and cucumber because only 4 corn plants grew the first time. Sunflowers look good, the rabbits ate half my tomato plants and all the honeydew but at least the tomotoes recovered. Its so muddy all the time, if I try to work the...

I just found a pack of Tulip bulbs I forgot to plant in the fall. They have been in the unheated garage all winter. Can I plant them now?

Just thought I would mention to check with your local county extension office. Right now ours is having their annual seedling sale. As an example, I will get a bundle of 25 10"-24" Douglas Fir for $12, no shipping you pick them up their in April. 25"-40" White Dogwood, $2 each or $8 for 5...

I picked this up today and I will call it a must read. I get one every year but this one has interesting articles on growing tomatoes and saving seeds, miniature livestock and the usual stuff. I like the planting guides, great for a new gardener or someone like me who just cant remember. You...

Anyone ever grow a bush cherry? BF and I were talking about what else to plant. I have 3 apples one of which I think is going to get cut down, its just too old and over grown. I mentioned a cherry tree and he said many years ago he had a bush cherry that was very plentiful. I think I saw one...

Anyone else just get the new Baker Creek seed catalog? WOW its much bigger this year and nice pictures. How do I decide????? :tools :watering www.rareseeds.com

Did anyone see this article in Mother Earth News in July? There is a small write in regarding it this month and the guy says he has been using the same bags for 7 years. Just hand tills and fertilizes and adds peat moss every year. Sounds interesting, I may try it next year...

I harvested my first 5 roma tomatoes today :tools im upset with my yellow grape tomatoes though, last year at this time they were abundant, this year nothing.

With everything going on these days I was reminded of the old "victory garden". I found a link that may be helpful to those with less garden experience and interesting to those interested in preserving the past. Its alot of reading but some helpful things...

I was thinking, weeds are a real problem in the field I use for my garden. Even the black plastic I laid a few weeks ago didnt work. What if I surrounded my plants with the grass clippings that get bagged? Would it block out the weeds and would it hurt the plants? Anyone do this? Due to an...

I have 3 old apple trees, I thined them out early march. The 2 red varieties are full of flowers but the yellow has very few. This tree is protected and doesnt get strong wind and I trimmed it as I read on a website to open up the canopy as they have been neglected for a long time. Did I trim...

several large farms started sweet corn early last year with a goal of july 4th harvest. I think they all missed by like a week but I wanted to know if anyone here has tried it and how they did it. Oh course Im refering to those of us in a cooler climate.

Last year I didnt do as good as I could have with some things in the garden, and Im wondering if there are ways to attract bees to the garden. I live in a rural area but raising bees is more than i want to do. I know bees arent as plentiful but do you think planting certain varieties of...

I have Amish Pie Pumpkin and Galeux d'Eysiness which is like a squash with a pinkish orange color and "warts" really interesting. I harvested them last fall from seeds I bought from www.rareseeds.com . I also have what i believe to be Connecticut field pumpkin but im not sure as they were...