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Our asparagus has come up (planted it last year) and I wated to keep the chickens out of the bed, so I made a twig fence from green branches and old bamboo stakes. Its really just a visual barrier and fortunately our chickens are not smart enough to attempt getting through it. I also wanted a...

I just got the latest Seeds of Change catalog, and this year they have Cumin seed for starting. We use this quite a bit in our house, and the flowers look really pretty. Anyone have any exerience growing Cumin? It's evidently in the Nigella family so it looks like it might be fun to grow...

DH gave me an EasyBloom garden monitor for Christmas. Its a USB enabled gardening monitor that you install in your garden or in your houseplants and it reads the local conditions (light water, humidity), w which you can download to your PC. We have a potted rosemary plant that lives inside...

..that's something I'd really like to see. There could be a sticky with a suggested template: - Name of variety - source (for seed, seedlings or plants) - number of days - culutral informaiton - yeild - taste (for veggies) - Did it meet your expectations - problems you had Just an idea...

..and delicious too. The variety is Charleston (85 days) , and it was very trouble free. And look at the color! Even though the trend is towards smaller size fruits these days, this one reminds me of the monster size watermelons of my childhood. :cool: We had this growing on our front...

This is Moon & Stars. We've never grown watermelon before, and overall they have done really really well up to this point. This started at the base of the vine, and seems to be spreading outward. Not every tendril is affected however, and the plant has still set fruit. There are three good...

I have canna and colocasia as container plants, and I'm looking for source other than Brent & Becky's Bulbs (nothing against them, but I didn't really see what I wanted this year.) I ended up buying some from Home Depot, which was a huge mistake of course because I suspect they sold me last...

I was asked to flesh out the details for a post I did a while back, and you can download a guide the various components from my gardening blog Green Universe This isn't really an instruction sheet, just detailed photos of the various parts and how they go together. It's a Word doc. Enjoy...

Does anyone know what this variety might be? This selfseeded from a bag of decorative "mini pumpkins" we got from Costco. The plants sure looks like a squash, even though the fruits do look like pumpkins, so I assuming it is a squash. The fruits are creamy white when mature; very pretty...

I grew this from seed (Johnny's), it's a very easy plant and I love the big tropical leaves! The ankles of this plant are not that attractive, so I think it looks best mixed with other plants. This one is planted amongst honeydew vines and zinnias. ~Phyllis

You know,I used to think garden gnomes were a little creepy - but I have to admit they've grown on me. A house down the street has one they keep moving around their yard, and my kids tell me it's game on their school bus to spot his new location. One day he was blown into the driveway during...

I've never grown Tomatillo before, so I'm at a loss as to what the problem might be. The plant is big and robust, maybe 4-5 tall and with dozens of blossoms. But the blossoms never mature into fruit, they just drop off and eventually a very tiny fruit shrivlels up and falls off as well. Now...

We've never grown them before, and there are two plants in this bed, about six feet apart....they are a leedle more vigorous that I expected! :lol: And yesterday my husband found a watermelon growing on the steps! This variety is Charleston, which I think are fairly large. We also have...

Our stiffneck garlic is pretty tall, maybe two feet or so, and those crazy-looking twisty scapes are fully formed with the bulb-like things on the ends. How big should I let them get before I pinch them off? ~Phyllis

Updated Feb 28, 2009: my blog has an illustrated Word document you can download that goes into detail on this set up and notes the materials you need to make your own rain water collection system. Enjoy! :)Phyllis My husband (he posts here as SewingDiva Husband) built the beds himself from...

SO - after quite a bit of searching, I found what I consider to be the perfect gardening hat: I really love it! It weighs virtually nothing but is rated for SPF 50, the brim is 4 inches wide and the Legionnaire styele drape at the back completely covers my neck while I'm in the sun. The...

I have a batch of Black Nero Tondo radishes that are at the end of their growing cycle (50 days) and the tops are lush and thick; so thick acutally that I can't even see the soil (they were spaced correctly too.) I picked one and the root was just beginnng to enlarge, is there any way to tell...

When I bought some heat mats off Ebay (good merchant BTW) the seller gave me a pack of Tiny Tim tomaotes, which evidently are small enough for pot culture. So here is what they look like as of today - on the left is a Brandywine, and on the right is Tiny Tim: Both of these were started...

I wish I had a photo to share, but my camera won't do a good close up. I was transplanting Swiss Chard into the garden today, and on the undersides of the leaves found several sets of minute rice shaped eggs, laid parallel to each other in sets of 4-5 each. The were small, maybe 2mm each in...

On the greenhouse thread he added a company that sells agreenhouse supplies, so I checked them out and they *also* carrry 4x4 framing posts made from composite: Composite at Tek Supply They also carry lots of fasteners for composite. Thanks Doc! ~Phyllis