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"Defiant" tomatoes
Has anybody grown them? Are they any good? They're supposed to be resistant to both early and late blights. Once again, late blight has wiped-out most of my tomato crop. They looked good until we had...
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onions
in my continuing learning about growing onions... while going out this past week to collect onion tops/seeds to bring them in to dry (to prevent them from scatterings seeds all over the place) i was...
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What fruit and what is wrong with them?
Recently we bought a property with apples and pears, damsons and plums there, also there is this fruit which i think are pears, but what is wrong with them?...
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Hopi Lima Beans
We're taking the vines out today, blasted things only produced about two quarts of actual beans. My fault, probably, for planting them to close together. Ie. five seeds per square foot. Saved some...
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What to do ...
When you're overrun with tomatoes ? Make Salsa ! Freeze some too , but I'm only freezing the Roma's . Here's my recipe , made it up after looking at a bunch of different ones online . I like it ......
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Peppers gone: (
My peppers were pretty well ready to picked. Stayed at sons overnight, came home checked garden and peppers were gone. Has anyone else had thid happen? I do know it wasnt a person as there was no...
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Figs not ripening.
We've had a fig tree that was here when we moved into our house four years ago. The long and short of it is that every year the tree gets full of figs but they never get very soft. We've cut a few...
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one to bookmark
You'll see why. Featured Creatures
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Neonic persistense
Knowing that many seeds these days are treated with neonics , I'm wondering if that stuff is also present in the plants grown from seeds from the original plant . And how many generations does it...
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Heavy , Man
Went out to the garden yesterday to see how many tomatoes were ripe only to discover several plants in a heap in the middle of the cages . They are so heavily laden I had to tie them to the cages with...
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first tomatoes and other garden news
from the beefsteak plants. i picked about a dozen yesterday and had my first toasted tomato sandwich. the cherry tomatoes have three red-orange tomatoes on them. between two plants. that's just odd...
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Re: ?? ginger (Zingiber officinale)
I haven't grown it myself but it is grown in Oz commercially in subtropical zones with warm humid days in summer. It is planted in spring and harvested between late summer to late autumn depending on...
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Re: Dioeciious squash?
I didn't know that this happened. All the cucurbits I have grown were monoecious. Can you tell us what is happening?
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Wish Me Luck
I have told the saga of how awful my spring / summer garden has been. (Prob ably too much too often) After I hurt my knee badly Memorial Day Weekend an d the weeds completely took over I pretty much...
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Next year
The green beans get their own trellis or other support . I let them go over onto the tomato cages because they were making the corn that was supposed to support them fall over . This has adversely...
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