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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...
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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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What can I plant this late in zone 4?
Between the (former) rabbit that ate all my okra, 2 tomatoes, and a nibbled my pepper plants last week, and the douchebag lawn service that sprayed 2,4-d thru the chain link fence into my garden*, I...
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French Beans - Blue Lake
All the advice is to pick the pods asap so as to encourage further pod development. How is this so given that the pods develop from their flower, so therefore more flowers would have to develop in...
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It was hot and humid...I tell you. mis weeding
Just out an hour ago and got into hand weeding. Going good just a few bug bites than as I looked at what I weeded I realized I planted those plants. Purslane hides well in with other plants not...
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Strawberry ABC's
I have some strawberries planted in a wagon and not doing so good. I want to transplant them to a bed. What kind of soil? How much water? How frequently? I have heard they like to be "wet". Pointers...
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A Zucchini!
Can't you tell I just picked my first zucchini. Two cucumbers yesterday. Tomatoes are starting to ripen. I am at the "O boy another." Probably won't be long before I start the "O drat, what I am going...
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