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I went here for ristra directions: www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Island/3920/ristrapage.html but didn't understand the second part about braiding the 3 stems into the hanging wire. I'm sure someone could do something clever with macrame, but it wouldn't be me. I'll just use the needle and...

I guess I'll go the needle and thread route and forget about the complicated braiding the stems routine. Thanks

Has anyone made a ristra? I looked on the web for instructions and can do the first easy step of tying three peppers together, but I don't understand the second part about braiding the stems of the peppers into the wire or twine. Either they have longer pepper stems than mine, or I am...

Thanks Linda, I wasn't sure that round-up or any herbicide would kill th bindweed root. I don't use herbicides either, but I could make an exception for bindweed. Kay

I've been weeding the wild- edible variety out of my garden like crazy. I don't even know where they come from as I don't believe I ever let it go to seed, but boy, it is all over the place. good thing they come up easy when small.

I think it is, one of them just sprang up in my yard last year. It hasn't had any fruit on it yet either.

I've been weeding that for years now. I wouldn't let it get out of hand. Mine is like a vine and will grow over anything it can.. .

do you have woodchucks? They could do that sort of damage.

Oh, I forgot, I think leaf mulch, either maple or oak would be great, and I think I read a study that says they really don't acidify the soil. Don't know about pine shavings, but I'm a believer that any mulch is better than no mulch.

I have used grass clippings and mulch straw (hay that is cut before the seed heads form) in my veg garden for weed control. In my perennial flower beds I put down cardboard and use wood chip mulch (that I get for free from the tree guys). I have really mean evil weeds, like bindweed. I f I...

Sound like they are just young, or are in a bit of transplant shock. With luck you have the self-pollinating varieties.

Are you getting flowers? What kind of peaches and apricots? I think that unless you have a self-pollinating apricot, you need to plant pollinators with it. I think most peach trees are self pollinating. I prune my peaches and apricot trees, the way I prune most things. Take out dead...

Wow, and I thought bindweed was the worst weed. I wonder if sudan grass would work for that as well? I'm not sure if I would trade my bindweed for thistle, but this afternoon while I was pulling I think I would have. . .

Would you have squash vine borer? look carefully at the base of the stem, you can sometimes see frass around the hole where they have bored through the stem. As for you brocolli, I'm not sure. Is it too hot for them to produce? I think they are cool weather plants. How much are you...

I think people use hairy vetch as a green winter mulch. they say to turn it under in the fall. I used it myself for the first time this year and it seemed to grow up thick enough in my veg garden to keep down all the other weeds. I turned it under about a month ago. I don't have any...

Hmmm, maybe I'm babying mine too much, but I try to wait unitl the temps hit 50's at night. They say that tomatoes won't set flowers if the temps drop below that. . . and it is 43 tonight. I am counting on my walls of water to protect the 6 I have out there, but I'd like to put another 6 out...

pat wrote: Dig the perennials back out, give them to your worst enemies unless you are *sure* you have extracted all the bindweed out of them (if you have any really beloved specimens, try propagating them from cuttings), solarize the bed and then smother it in darkness for at least a year no...

That's sad. I suppose you can do mean things like drown squirrels, but I wouldn't do that. Maybe you'll get so many this year that they can eat 200 and you will still have 200. I have my fingers crossed for you.

Isn't it too cold to plant out eggplant, peppers and even tomtoes outside? Nighttime temps are still in the 40's here in RI.

Squirrels were always a problem with my peach trees. One year I tried to net the tree and the squirrels chewed through the plastic netting, ran around on the tree inside the netting, kicking holes and knocking down peaches , then chewed another hole on the other side of the netting to get out...