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Growing days.
Growing days. Is growing days the days from when you plant. Or from when they pop out. Diesel.
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About to Spring
Leaving our valiant hero, locked in mortal combat against the forces of darkness, we return now to gardening that is now in progress Planting season By MEG McCONAHEY THE PRESS DEMOCRAT It's the first...
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Potatoes
Hi, Completely green when it comes to gardening and have a large space to grow. Thought I'd start with potatoes. Does anyone know the best variety of potatoes to grow in the soil in Wisbech...
 
onion flowers
I had been told that I should remove the flowers from the onions before they bloom but havn't read much about that in the forums, actually havn't read anything about the flowers in the forums, so...
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OT: Get Kelp
Yeah? I should check it out. At my age, though, I'm not to worried about cancer that I'll contract today. Yeah, but you'll be able to read by the glow of a glass of pure California cows milk. Think of...
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Yew Tree Toxicity Question
I'm posting this in the hope that someone is able to answer a question about using water that is contaminated with berries and possibly leaves from a Yew tree. The shed on my allotment is underneath...
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First pepper seeds are germinated
I put them in a wet paper towel 2 days ago, put that in a ricotta cheese container with a lid, and set it on the heated tile floor in the bathroom. That's right, just 2 days. (I must accidentally have...
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Edible gardening Show
Hi new member to the site and my first post,my company Amberol will be attending the Edible Gardening Show at Stonleigh in Warwickshire this weekend 18-20th March. We will be showing there our new...
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Bee garden
This is a follow on to the thread I started earlier about planting birdseed. Cheap birdseed is a mixture of desirable (like sunflower) and undesirable (like thistle) seeds so perhaps it makes more...
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Food taste.
It dawned on me over a week ago. That I'm really enthused about gardening this year. . I was stewing on that fact. As to why. And I hate the yard work, the weeding, bugs, being in the sun. I haven't...
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New green tent post.
I didn't want to hijack the green tent post. So I started this one. But the thought crossed my mind that it might be possible to have lettuce all summer if I had a sun shield of some sort. Anyone...
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Is birdseed viable?
Is birdseed viable or has it been treated in some way so that it won't germinate? I'd like to make my yard as bee friendly as possible. Costco birdseed is cheap and consists of sunflowers and other...
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Forcing
I've done branches and bulbs and was wonder what you force ? Perhaps some early chives or ........
 
Green tent
I'm thinking of using some plastic sheeting to form a temporary greenhouse or more precisely a green tent. I've been using steel garden fencing poles as plant stakes. I'm thinking of putting them out...
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Melon suggestions for New England
I'd like to be able to grow a melon. I do fine with tomatoes, peas, corn, strawberries, blueberries and beans but I've never been able to get a melon to grow. I live in Massachusetts, near the New...
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