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What do you do with your bounty?
Concerned not so much with canning, drying, etc but fresh use. I love tomato with white cheap bread and hellman's mayonnaise with salt and pepper. But the basil is ready and a simple tomato salad and...
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Marechal Foch Grapes Ripening
I live about 20 miles northeast of Baltimore, Maryland. We had record cold and snow last winter and record heat with little rain this summer, a very abnormal year for weather in every regard. When I...
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All American Canner
I can a lot of tomato juice each year and I am in the market for a 30 qt All American Canner. This unit will hold 16 quart jars of tomato juice. It will probably weigh about 80 pounds when I fill it....
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Planting dill in Texas
My parents live in the Houston area, and have no luck at all growing dill. I live in Minnesota, and it grows like a weed here, reseeding every year. I just harvested a bunch of dill seed, and want to...
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What I did this summer [long]
There are a few (very few) pictures here, just pictures in a folder; nothing fancy. My abject apologies for not taking more. of all, the Seed Saver's Exchange has been around for 35 years, starting as...
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Black Fly making a meal of my beans
Hello, I have black fly munching my runner beans, I've used an organic spray which seemed to work immediately after the spraying (couple of days perhaps) although the little vermin reappear shortly...
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Leaves Curling In on themselves?
I recently planted two very healthy, very vibrant Gold Cot apricot trees. The two saplings were prime specimens, good leaf color, excellent spacing on each leaf, with limb strong limbs, and a straight...
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 Alternative Farming Systems Information Center
From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout 1994-2010.  Alternative Farming Systems Information Center: Publications [pdf] United States Department of Agriculture's website has a special section...
 
Watermelon ?
How does one know that watermelons are ripe on the vine, other than the morning after coyotes ruin the whole patch? Since animal repellant washes away with rain/watering, I'd like to start applying it...
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Sushi quality tomatoes
yum, just got my first tomatoes in this year and they are sushi quality! (northeast area) going to be a great year
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USDA Admits Link Between Antibiotic Use by Big Ag and Human Health
Andrew Gunther Program Director, Animal Welfare Approved Posted: July 20, 2010 07:30 AM USDA Admits Link Between Antibiotic Use by Big Ag and Human Health At a hearing of a House Energy and Commerce...
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delaway perrenial cabbage aka kale?
g'day, looking to source seeds for the delaway cut and come again cabbage (common description), might be more closer to kale? 2 seed co's over GB way both state that this seed in particular cannot be...
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Bottom rot on my tomatoes...
I'm in Southern Ontario Zone 5b (Niagara escarpment) I have tomatoes in pots, two plants per pot, staked. Pots are 12" x 12" x 12" deep. A bit of a gravel bed on the bottom, maybe 3/4" thick. They...
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Pasilla Negros and sunscald in Denver - Hows the weather in Mexico?
I am growing a lot of Pasilla Negros in Denver this year and have begun seeing sunscald on some of the pods. The plants do not have a heavy canopy compared to the NuMex 6-4s and Anaheims I commonly...
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Help! When are Apricots ripe?
For the first time since we planted it eight years ago our apricot tree is fruiting. Here in Denver there are often late storms that freeze out any blossoms, but not this year. We have fruit almost as...
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