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today's pic of a bean cross
i planted these on June 8th. most likely (about 99.9%) it is a cross between Purple Dove and Painted Pony. an edible bean too (i sampled one pod to be sure of that). i have two plants at least with...
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8 months ago
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Zucchini
It was mentioned on here not long ago about end rot. My zucchini plants took off, and are huge. I picked one over a foot long today that seemed quite solid, but the two others I picked were shorter,...
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8 months ago
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garlic harvest
two days ago i got it lifted and cleaned up enough to cure. i'm trying something a bit different to see how it goes. i like to learn new things by changing my methods. even with the long dry spell we...
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9 months ago
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Onions from seeds?
Are they one or two year to harvest?
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9 months ago
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Of Tomatoes and Light
Hi All, I occasionally take picture of my garden at various point in its lifecycle. I though I was only taking a picture of my first green cherry tomatoes, but when I went to download my picture to my...
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9 months ago
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Zuke Test
Hi All, Another silly test of mine., Since squash bugs only lay eggs one, it is recommended to plant zukes AFTER the over winter bugs lay their eggs. Typically, I plant my seeds in the middle of May....
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scarification: is this a joke?
Hi All, Is this a joke? Birds spread the seeds in the wild, so to start thimbleberry seeds, it?s essential to mimic this and use cold stratification and scarification to germinate the seeds. When the...
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9 months ago
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question on bone meal and onions
Hi All, Organic bone meal (phosphorous) promotes flower, fruit set up, and root growth. Question: does the root part apply to the bulb of onions? Many thanks, -T
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9 months ago
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Liquid fertilizer question
Hi All, I water my ground pots with a watering want on sprinkle. I picked out a liquid fertilizer that I liked as it had a lower nitrogen and a higher phosphate number (1-3-1). want you to premix 1/2...
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9 months ago
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seed planting question
Hi All, I planted a bunch of very small tomatillo seeds this year in my ground pots. And they came up, Yippee! But I did notice something. Some of them came up about 8 to 10 inches away from where I...
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9 months ago
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Ping: songbird: when to harvest for seeds?
Hi Songbird, To collect onion seeds, you told me a few years ago to cut the stalks off about 10" or so below the cotton ball and place them in a cardboard box. I am not sure when to harvest though...
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9 months ago
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Eeny meeny greeny beany
This morning was first picking of green beans . I brought in 2 one gallon ice cream buckets , and I'm not sure yet how many pints that will make . My loving wife is right now putting them into jars...
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My silly test
Hi All, I have planted the bottom 3" of white onions from the grocery store before and have had wonderful results. Onion tops all summer and winter. I pull one all the way out yesterday to help...
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9 months ago
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first significant rain in a while
we've had a few sprinkles between Apr 5 and now, but probably all totalled less than a half inch of rain. normal for us is about 3 inches of rain a month. a bit ago we had a whopping 3/8 of an inch of...
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10 months ago
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Blight(?) on my potatoes :(
Checking on my potato plants this morning, it seems they might've been in the early stages of some kind of infection. Some of the leaves are starting to have little black spots all over. Pruned all...
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10 months ago
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