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lima beans in heavy soil
just reading an older book and it recommends planting two seeds per hole in heavy soil so that one sprout can help make way for the other. since i know of at least one other person here who likes...
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oh i've missed this
planting... put in the garlic today and that meant doing some digging. i'll know later or tomorrow if my hand was able to take it, but so far it isn't complaining. not the best place to put garlic,...
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Blueberry pollination?
I was given a single blueberry plant several years ago but I understand tha t several plants are needed to achieve pollination. Is it possible I could split this root-ball up to produce the several...
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9 years ago
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The End Is near !
Until next spring , that is . I'm just biding my time until the first hard frost . I still have lettuce , spinach , and bok choy producing - and the bok choy is doing the best and it's all volunteer ....
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9 years ago
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Confusing Raspberries
I am a little confused about their behaviour and wondered if anybody could explain. I bought a cane last year and planted it and found it started to grow in the Autumn/Winter when everything else was...
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9 years ago
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What are these weeds?
My garden has been taken over by 2 types of weeds. One is a short clumpy g rass that has a brown top on it. The other ones look like oak seed pods onl y green with a redish stem. I do have photos if...
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9 years ago
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Volunteers
If the number of bean plants that keep sprouting (apparently some pods got tilled under ...) are any indication I'm going to have a great germination rate for the ones I saved . These are Kentucky...
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Peppers Pickled
Put in the jar on the 12th , and I just couldn't wait any longer . They're very tasty , not as hot as I'd feared . As I recall , it was about 40 peppers , 2/3C each white vineger and distilled water...
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9 years ago
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Kitten eating fungi
With all the rain we've been having, some meaty looking fungi came up under some trees. We usually only have toad stools. A kitten was licking and chewing on some with gusto. When I knocked it away...
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9 years ago
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Now what ?
Well , the spinach and lettuce has come up , the bok choy is there from seed that fell before I harvested the pods . And today I tilled the straw from around the potatoes (what a disappointment ...)...
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9 years ago
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Brussel Sprouts
My luck with Brussel Sprouts have seem to run out these last few years. The first few times I planted them they were wonderful - very tall stalks with lots of sprouts. The last few years have seen...
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9 years ago
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giant red peppers
12cm across at least. a bit longer than that. not quite done yet, but the one we picked and ate last week was very tasty. wish my camera weren't bork. songbird
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more experimenting with beans
this year instead of planting single variety rows/plots i decided to just decide what i wanted to put in an area, mix the seeds all together and then plant whatever came to hand while going along the...
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apple tree seedlings
last fall i planted some apple seeds to see what would happen. the method was simple. scratch a line in the dirt, scatter seeds along the line. cover with dirt. ignore for the rest of the...
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9 years ago
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Fall salad greens
Wish me luck , this year for the first time I've planted fall crops of lettuce , bok choy , and spinach and we have great germination ... all from seeds I saved this summer . I just sprinkled a few...
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9 years ago
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