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I posted the question in the Pre-emergents for grasses thread, but this could probably benefit from its own thread Essentially the question gets to "what do you use for a grass seed / fertilizer / lime /... spreader and what do you like or hate about it?" or anything else you want to share...

Forking off of Potatoes and focusing more on zone 4 (Minnesota) growing since that one was WAY more south :) I've never grown potatoes, but my wife has been mentioning them more in the last two years, so I think this spring I'll try to grow them. I'm open to whatever advice you have I'm all...

Alright folks, I need a tiller this spring. I've gone back and forth about front vs rear tine tiller, but the cost of a rear tine is honestly a hard pill to swallow given everything else going on in my life. That being said, what do you have and do you love it or hate it? I'm worried that a...

Well, I've been putting together my lists in the last few weeks and in my attempt to not do 10 different oops I forgot this/that orders and pay for shipping 10 different times I was trying to consolidate everything, but then kids distracted me and yesterday I said "oh, I'll do that tomorrow"...

Well, it hadn't been looking top notch recently and my wife finally noticed a massive amount of female scales all over some of the leaves. I bought this for hir birthday two years ago, so this was sad to cut it all down and toss it outside :(. Hope it didn't spread :( Picture from yesterday...

Well, it hadn't been looking top notch recently and my wife finally noticed a massive amount of female scales all over some of the leaves. I bought this for her birthday two years ago, so this was sad to cut it all down and toss it outside :(. Hope it didn't spread :( Picture from yesterday...

So I have a Husqvarna TS 348 XD riding mower. I bought a three basket grass catcher for it but find that when I have it all set up that the tube that runs between the mower deck and the basket cover on the back slips out more than it should (ever?) and ends up deflecting all that grass or...

So we grew kohlrabi this year. How the hell do you all use this? My wife asked me to grow it, so I did, but the few we've harvested seem to have a lot of wasted core in the corm (I don't know what to call it. Is it a core if it's above ground?) and so the flesh you get is small. I'm...

So I've made the decision to to back to school and further my education. I have a professor who is interested/wanting to work with me and at this point she basically said "let's keep chatting, but go get the minimum GRE score". So, has anyone taken it recently? Have you taken it as a non-trad...

Looking for a mechanical electrical timer, like the one Orbit makes for hoses. Anyone know of one? I have a 550 gal water tank that feeds my 10 rows of potted trees via a large pump. I usually turn on a row or two for 20 min or so, but sometimes you can get distracted and forget :(. I really...

Last year (Nov) I spread A LOT of wildflower and short prairie grass seed between my tree rows because before our ownership it was cornfield & soybeans and thus had little in the way of a native grass seedbank. I'm hopeful that some of the seeds stayed put and weren't washed or blown away and I...

The warmer weather is almost here to stay and like most of you I'm trying to get situated to hopefully have a successful year Between my rows of soil I laid out horse manure last summer to suppress weeds and obviously give nutrition over time. Ober winter I spread chicken manure as well and...

Ummm... I've never heard of people baking their soil before. Is that a thing people actually do? Saw this on Facebook in a gardening group.

So I was putting it off until next year to do any strawberries as I just didn't have the cash to do more raised beds. But as I was dumping the few scraped together buckets I could muster from the scraps of horse manure and compost, dirt & sand I had left from last year for topping my corn rows...

My neighbor bought 30 poplars :) however, we live in zone 4b and he didn't realize he needed to direct them when they should deliver, so they apparently delivered them yesterday. He was incredibly frantic and thought he was up **** creek. I told him to come on over :). Lucky for him he lives...

So I planted a few 5 gallon buckets worth of black walnut seeds in a section of my property figuring that if I saturated an area enough that the squirrels couldn't possibly eat them all. I took a walk in that area this weekend now that the snow is melting. I'll let you guess how many holes I...

So my family and I moved into this house almost two years ago. When we were looking for a new house and land I didn't anticipate finding one with a couple of mature apple trees, along with about 15 crabapple trees. Anyways, since then I've been so focused on getting my tree farm going that I...

Anyone have any experience with successful germination of American Sycamore (platanus occidentalis) seeds? Been trying for around a month now with no luck and am curious if I'm missing some trick. First time with them. So far it's just been in soil, but I'm about to go back to my coffee...

It's always such a long wait (90+ days just for plant maturity) for these guys, but very worth it. I have three plants going in my basement each with a good amount of peppers on them and they've finally started turning color in the last two days. I never really mark down when I start them but...

It all boils down to these questions: How many lettuce plants are the right amount? Do you keep germinating and planting more over the course of a season? Both in summer and winter I normally grow peppers and tomatoes, you know, plants that just keep producing and producing and aren't...