Due to increased activity of the MMMM Swap topic(s), members looking for information about the upcoming swap can now find that in one dedicated area. If there is a question...
I like to get seed orders in before New Years Eve. It's kind of a tradition and avoids the later rush. This year I'm ordering from just three companies and yesterday I placed...
Just read The Tao of Vegetable Gardening , what a cool book. In it she has a section called “Why It Will Soon Be Impossible to Grow Our Current Generation of Heirloom...
Every once in a while I buy innoculent for planting legumes. It's not really necessary if legumes have been grown in the spot in the prior five years or if the legumes...
Has anyone tried any of these fancy colored funny named fruits? Are they any good, do they produce well and handle disease or are they just pure marketing?
I subscribe to A Way to Garden, Margaret Roach's newsletter. She does a podcast, but I always just read the transcript. Anyway, today's is about unusual vegetables with Lane...
Boring Preamble: I usually wind up with a pepper plant in my garage over the winter because frost comes and I still have green peppers. The first time I did it, in the spring...
Would like to hear from people who have grown grafted tomatoes.
What rootstock did you use?
Did you find it helped your plants survive blights, nematodes and other diseases?...
I enjoyed following along as people posted about their seed catalog arrivals last fall & winter, so I'm hoping some folks will want to do it again this year.
The old washing machine finally died at the age of 16 so we went to Home Depot today to get another one. Lo AND behold, they had their new seed displays in, chock full....
I thought this was interesting and wanted to share. Might be fun for those of you who are educators. I placed an order for seeds for my community garden group, hopefully we...
Winter Kill Temps For Cold Hardy Vegetables is an article I ran across yesterday and since a big cold wave is running across the country, I'm posting this in case it's useful...
Each month, the University of Chicago Press offers a free ebook download.
For November 2022, the free ebook was written by a sociologist and published in 2015:
Over on another thread here, people have been talking about planting some Ukrainian garden varieties this summer to raise awareness and keep them in circulation as a tribute...
So I'm finally down to the last tomatoes to have ripened on the counter. These are going in a beef stew. It was a pretty good season.
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I picked up five 2.5 pound containers, 2 of the 9-2-7 and 3 of the 7-6-9 for $3.88 or $4.05 each depending on which type of Miracle Gro granular Organics fertilizer....
If anyone is interested in a fun Christmas card seed swap, I have posted the Secret Santa Seed Swap over at Houzz.com in the Round Robin exchange. Its been a Christmas...
Is anyone familiar with Leonotis nepetifolia, known as Lightning Rod plant or Christmas Candlestick plant? It was a featured mystery plant on a South Carolina Extension...
Anyone else get this? I feel like for the first few months I pick every diseased leaf, hit every flower with the toothbrush, check every plant every day. Now five months in...
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