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I used to start a lot of plants early on the back enclosed porch, but in recent years I've limited early starts to tomatoes and geraniums. Just a few pots now, down from a dozen back in the day. I'm not just an easy gardener, I'm a lazy one too! Of course that means waiting awhile for blooms...

As usual I've drawn up a design for what I will plant, and where, this coming spring, and ordered seeds to put away with my saved seeds once they dry. Typically once I've put away the seeds and written plan/notes, and Christmas season is looming, I will forget all about gardening. Then in the...

This may be a bit off topic, but fruit flies are a nuisance in the kitchen. They tend to hop a ride in on produce from the garden and cut flowers. Anyways these little sticky fly traps work wonders to collect the annoying critters. This one (stuck into a piece of banana inside a plastic cup)...

That is horrible. :confused:

I LOVE your beautiful collies!

I am terrified of wasps and hornets, and I have a wonderful service that uses cedar and other oils to kill nests and protect against rebuilding, since these pests dislike the smell and feel of these oils. They come once a month in summer and fall months, and this has been wonderfully effective...

I grew a rainbow mix of carrots one year that included purple dragons. I grew them in a small space and harvested them with winter fast approaching, so I didn't get much, but I do often buy the purple carrots at the farmers market. The deep purple and orange are my favorites. (The whitish and...

Tomatoes! All my other salad ingredients have come from other gardeners at the farmers market. I can claim only the tomatoes.

One or two days ago there was a mass gathering of hummers in my crabapple tree out front. It looked like hundreds of birds. I think it must have been a starting point for the next leg of their journey, and they were regrouping at the send-off point. Today I'm seeing none, but I'll give the...

Those look like happy ducks. Sorry about your chickens.

First, you have my sympathies. Second, unfortunately I have no experience with any of the trees you are considering, living in the far north as I do. Hopefully others in your growing zone will be more helpful than me.

Welcome to the forum from Vermont (same mountains, but further north). I assume you are still a bee-keeper? After all gardens need bees, just as bees need gardens.

Tomatoes, the only food crop I grow consistently each year (and then only on a small scale).

Welcome from Northern New England! I love palm trees and palmettos too, although they don't grow here. I associate them with past wondrous vacations to tropical places where they do grow!

That is some high tech watering system!

Thanks. I don't really need a solution, since watering cans work fine for me, but I was curious. So the milk jugs have done the trick?

Red ones were for sale here back in the day, but many people objected. Consequently manufacturers changed to yellow, but probably not a solution since yellow also attracts them. Mist completing the circuit makes sense, and/or maybe a tall grass stalk. "My" hummingbirds seem sorted out into...

That's sad about the hummingbird you found, secuono. I've always wondered about our electric fences back in the day, but doesn't a bird on a hot wire also need to touch a ground to complete the circuit? If so that wouldn't be impossible I guess. I'm surprised they still manufacture red...

Do you guys have to move all these hoses and sprinkler systems when it's time to mow lawns? I know this would be challenging for me, given the weekly visits of my lawn mowing guy and how fast the grass grows here. At this point I have only three raised beds that need watering, plus the potted...

Nope. I have only landline phones. I have to take credit for this mistake myself, but thanks for offering me an excuse.