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I have tons of butternut on the vines but have no idea how to tell when they are ripe.

it is early in the season and lessons i have already learned. 1. Prepare in the fall for a spring garden when you get a lot of rain it is hard to till. that way i can have spinach and lettuce early in the season. 2. start brussel sprout and broccoli seedlings inside instead paying over 3.00...

i have 7 zucchini in a row and the middle one appears to be dying. Could it have some type of root rot or bore worm?

I have never grown them before and the plants have been in the ground since March. They look more like heads of cabbage than Brussel Sprouts. Right now they are 14 to 16 inches tall.

We call them bag worms. They hang in the joints of the trees in what look almost like a spiders web. Last year they ate every leaf on the tree. This year I am trying to control them. I have removed them for the last two days and killed them. Tried to feed them to the chickens but they won't even...

My garden spot will not dry out enough so that I can till. I am so ready to plant. I am hoping to get the onions and strawberries in tomorrow before it rains again on Wednesday. :barnie

I just found a source for burlap bags on Craigslist. I am going to give them a call today to schedule pickup. I am thinking these will be wonderful to use around plants to keep down weeds and hold in moisture. What else can I use these for? The guy said he has hundreds. Not sure how many he will...

So I spent an hour laying out my plans for a new garden then I decided that I should check to see which plants I should grow together. Well I found this great website that tells you which plants/herbs/flowersgrow best together or should be planted in other parts of the garden. I thought it was...

Has anyone grown Kiwi in zone 7? If so how did it do? Where did you grow it and how long did the plant live?

I bought the book "Guide to North Carolina Vegetable Gardening" which had good reviews on Amazon. I always get confused when to plant fall and spring veggie and end up with nothing. So I am hoping this book will make me a MASTER Vegetable gardener. No I just hope it helps me keep from feeding a...

I am trying to decide if I want to buy through a catalog and pay more or buy seeds locally from a hardware/feed store? The ones I can buy from the hardware/seed store in bulk cost about 1/4 of the price of seeds in the little packages.

I planted seeds I bought at a fruit stand and was told they were yellow eyed peas. I thought they would be like blackeyed peas which don't need staking. Well all of the sudden they started shooting out climbers like pole beans. I don't have a way to stake them in the raised bed so they are kind...

I planted mustard, turnips, beets and collards about three weeks ago. Leaves develop but then the stems get real long and thin and they fall over. What am I doing wrong?

For some reason I was thinking a read somewhere that when you open canned veggies or sauces that you have to simmer for 15 minutes for it to be safe to eat. Is this true of something I just dreamed up? I had a hard time getting the pressure canner to regulate to 3 to 4 jiggles a minute. Is...

I have a healthy butternut squash plant that has produced two little squash only to have the squash die and fall off right after the bloom dies. Could it not be being polinated? How do I hand polinate? I have another squash that just bloomed today.

I found this wonderful site through BYC. My husband and I moved out to 7 acres a year ago. Last year with the move I was not able to put in a garden. This year I started a raised bed but so far it has done less than expected in fact it has prodcued more cost than produce. I have added some...

I was reading in Storey's Basic Country Skills the broadcast method for wide row gardening. I tried this last weekend using green and turnip seeds in my raised bed but it seems like the plants are close together and I am wondering if I should start thining them. They also seem a little leggy is...