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Between the neighborhood cats spraying, the birds pecking holes in my tomatoes and the darn squirrels breaking my vines by jumping on the cages, my garden is going to pot!:barnie I am ready to have my DH build me a super sized walk in cage for my garden!

I am doing this too- sorta. I have never planted things this late so it will be interesting. What gave me the idea was something I read in the Square Foot Gardening book. The author, Mel Barthamew states that now is a great time to plant. The soil has warmed and seeds will germinate faster...

That is interesting! I will be waiting to see how the salt works. I will try to remind you to peek on it too!:P I dry basil in the microwave on a paper plate. Wash and dry the leaves, lay in a single layer on the plate and let it go a few seconds, take it out and look at it, let it go a few...

Well I've done some searching online and I found a message board where it looks like a number of people here in the DFW Metroplex use the Square Foot method and Mel's Mix with great success. I have no replies here yet, so I don't think many if anyone on here has tried it. I'm gonna do it. Just...

I love any of the cookbooks put out by church group or the Ladies Auxiliary Leagues and such. Most of the ones have tons of old standard recipes from peoples families. I know they are time tested and pretty darn tasty! Yard sales are a great place to find these sorts of books. Usually they are...

Hmmmm... coyote urine you say. Man I'd hate to have the job of the guy who has to get that stuff and bottle it! Sounds like an episode of Dirty Jobs. :P I suppose coyote tinkle would certainly smell no worse then the cats so I may have to give that a try. I have plenty of marigolds in the area...

Male Cat's to be exact. They keep spraying my plants! I have everything in containers this year because I have very few sunny spots and terrible soil. I have looked at the things for sale at the feed store and pet store that you can spray or sprinkle to keep them away from things, but the...

I did a search of the board before making this post on square foot gardening. Does anyone here actually use Mel's Mix? I heard the book mentioned and recommended here first and I am thinking of trying it out. However, I haven't read anything on here as a praise or otherwise for the soil Mel...

I hope you have a safe and fun trip! :)

The pine shavings do seem to take forever to break down! I have found that the partially uncomposted shavings mixed in with my soil seems to aid in water retention. They may not break down very fast, but they are at least absorbant! No, they don't make it look like perfectly pretty dirt, but it...

I make the fried ones like Nubsmum and eat them dipped in Ranch Dressing. Yours sound delish too though are they dried some way instead of fried?

That's awesome! Heck I think the original was a pretty good idea, but the drill and all the sorting really is pretty cool. Once you add all those sorter things though, it kinda makes transporting the sifter hard doesn't it? What I liked about the original is that it just moved on top of the...

We are finally getting a rain shower! It has already been skirting the triple digits here for weeks and not a drop of rain. While this is common for later in the summer, it was not nice for the first half of June. When it's that hot I have to get up before the chickens every day and go out and...

Yep, the work of the aliens! I hope they get it fixed soon. That would drive me nuts.

I'm glad we do go below 85 at night. I would hate for it to be that darn hot at night too! I can understand the poor tomatoes not ripening if it was that hot at night, poor things would just be cooking on the vine. I was thinking maybe it had something to do with humidity levels and such when I...

I see these pics too! Your limas look great! Mine are not doing so hot. We have a cat that comes around my yard that thinks they are his and has been spraying my plants. Your peppers look good too. Mine did just like the tomatoes, the reds have taken forever to turn! Look way up under those...

I see them too! They are really pretty..... and green! :P I say give them time, it seems mine stayed green forever too and then when one started to ripen, they all did! I'm serious. I think size wise they didn't change for weeks (maybe even a month) before they turned ripe. Oakland, if...

I have found a really informative site that may be helpful to anyone else in the DFW? Metro area. If you click on the notes from the garden link it has lots of articles and a very handy planting guide. http://www.redentas.com/shops-info.php

Hey SweetShop Lady, I used to live down that way! Past Tyler though, I grew up in the little 'ol town of Rusk. We grew the BEST tomatoes in the whole world down there. You'll love it! We had the dewberries too. One year, we took the time to trim up the vines and thin them a bit. The very next...

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