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This is what I do every year: The flippin' greenest balcony in sterile ville that makes the landscaping company look bad. I get 20-30lbs of veggies off that mass planting of a NORTH balcony! But not this year. The construction lawsuit has settled and they are starting repairs. We will be...

So I sowed some snow peas in buckets back in January. It's now mid may, these plants are 4 months old, and they are finally setting flowers! :ya The exciting part is that these guys are way ahead of season for where I am located. I don't anticipate flowers back home in Everett till July! No...

When do snow peas flower? So back home snow peas went into the ground about 6 months ago and are trucking along like usual and I'll expect flowers soon... and peas soon there after... However, for those who have put peas into pots... how long did it take for them to flower? Dang plants are...

So how well do beets "overwinter" in the soil. Or rather, I am leaving town again till thanksgiving and we are sure to have a kiling frost before I get back. I'm sure we'll have a killing frost within the next month really. Will this killing frost kill all the beets and render them spoiled? The...

So I have what I think to be a TERRIBLE infestation of diamond back moth larva. My summer stand of bok choi has been overwhelmed and about 90% of the leaves have holes in them so numerous that you can see though about 50% of the leaf. They look like: And the leaves look like: I just put...

They both seem a bit different? The second one w/o antenna looking like a bee colored fly?

So I dug up my potato plants and got some really big one pounders and a huge pile of tiny ones along with the majority in between types. Well, being lazy I took all the baby ones that are maybe the size of a shooter marble to a golf ball, washed them really really well and scrubbed them down. I...

I got a few packets of bush beans last year for 20 cents a small one ounce packet. I figured I'd try them... I don't know how much I like them. It was good for this short bad summer as they actually had enough time to be productive. However... the yield felt low to me. They were deep green and...

So, just out of curiosity, what percent of the female flowers would you have to say get pollinated on your squashes? And if you hand pollinate or not. About 10% of the females on my accidental pumpkin get pollinated, about 20% of the acorn squash. I haven't hand pollinated yet but I just may...

I know that a method to force tomatoes to ripen is to dehydrate and stress them so they go in to panic and ripen... but when do we want to do this? I am getting desperate for garden goods this year due to weather issues. Hot streak of 80F weather in march that stunted the cool season veggies...

Boy is the weather bad for the garden this year. The April hot spell and then April snow set back all the cold season stuff to where I am finally getting snow peas. Yeah, snow peas just now starting in LATE July! But the weather seems right for them. Yesterday's high was 62F. What corn made...

Maybe this is just half a rant more so than anything else. Some danged rat or mouse is systematically going down the rows and diging up each corn sprout to eat the seed!!! However... there are a few where the heads were just snapped off and seed still there, unlike the ones dug up with the seed...

So I was talking with my aunt in California who lives in one of those stereotypical developments. She was like, how can you grow so many veggies and so on... Well turns out they had planted tons of tomatoes and a few fruit tress that produced nothing but flowers... why... because even though...

I drive just 300 miles south and see that short season watermelons are a plenty on family side of the road farms. Anyone in zone 6b or lower been able to grow a watermelon? I read that watermelon seeds and plants love temps in the 75-85 deg range... but we have all of maybe 30 days of temps...

Why is it only January? I have to wait all the way till March to sow tomato seeds INSIDE and then all the way till May to even plant them!!! Awwww.. so long. :th

So this year I plan on expanding a bit. If the chickens get the weed killing down, I plan on expanding to about 22k sq feet. How big is everyone else's gardens?

So what is everyone going to be growing this spring? I plan tomatoes, corn, green beans, peas, japanese squash, pumpkins, acorn squash, chinese brocoli, and zucchinis.

So how many of you all use chickens to clear patches of ground and to make it fertile?