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I have two vigorous currant bushes, both a black and a white. They are doing well enough this year that I'd like to try propagating them by cuttings, especially since I recently read in a gardening book they are 'the easiest of all' to propagate in terms of the fruiting shrubs. Trouble is, the...

I am thinking of doing a small marigold grow out this summer and trying to find info about cross pollination possibly occurring between them. Looking into this led me to several online articles saying almost all marigolds are hybrids?? Can this be true? In particular, the Gem marigolds, a...

Searching around looking for different cucumber varieties to grow this year, any colour really, that have great taste and texture. I've thus far tried Poona Kheera, Miniature White, National Pickling, Boothby's Blonde. I'd like to stick with OP types so I can save the seeds. There are so many...

Bought a few heirloom/OP pumpkin / squashes at a market the other day, mostly because we never get varieties such as these and they were a pretty good deal. I'm gonna collect the seeds when the time comes. I vaguely recall seeing varieties that look like these over the years in various...

Seed saving is an essential part of my garden and garden activities. For several years now I have been growing, on a bit of a focus rotation, a number of different vegetables, and flowers, to build a 'seed ark'. Heirloom tomatoes, peppers, beans and peas have been the main crops, but I've also...

Kale - the 'superfood' vegetable that tastes like cardboard. Or worse. Kale will probably start trickling in from the garden and I finally found a way to cook it to make it more than palatable, even really good. And it's simple. About 3-5 ingredients. The trick is to stuff the kale in a food...

Has anyone grown a variety of corn called 'Blue Jade'? I'm trying it for the 1st time this year and wonder if anyone has any tips to offer for success? There is lots of conflicting & various information online about it; for starters, not sure what spacing to go with. I was going to plant a 5...

I planted some 'Jing Orange' okra around April 1st, and today I saw flowers forming on the plants though they are planted in relatively small containers. So I transplanted them into bigger containers, and picked off the flowers, but I am wondering if I shouldn't have done that? Seems to me too...

Trying sesame plants for the first time, the black variety. The growing instructions say to start inside, and graduate to outdoors (after frost risk ends) planting in a hot and dry location. My plan is to grow the plants in pots. Does anyone have experience with these plants or have any tips...

I am growing a new pea variety this year called 'Argenteum'. It is said to have silvery leaves, and so far it seems to, but there are other regular green pea leaved plants that have sprouted as well. Does anybody know if this variety has this kind of variation in leaf colour? I'm tempted to...

Carrot planting season isn't far away, and it's been several years now that this pest has been afflicting my carrots. For the past two years I've interplanted my carrots with podding radishes and this has worked pretty well, though not perfectly. Once these things showed up, they just kept...

For the last few years I've grown a plant/herb called 'Papalo'. It is a wonderful plant to grow, if one likes a taste similar to the green herb cilantro/coriander, because it lasts all summer long unlike cilantro. Every year I've grown it, I have not noticed any seed heads form, and I'd really...

I've bought two tomatillo seed varieties this year which are quite different from one another. They are Queen Malinalco and Deep Purple. They're quite different varieties, one being sweet and yellow (as well as uniquely shaped) and the other is dark purple and the more standard flavoured...