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Strawberry questions
We bought some killer one gallon strawberry plants the other day. They all have strawberries on them, some ripe. I want to grow a bunch of them. I have four 8' railroad ties. OLD railroad ties that...
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I'm baaaaaaaack
I had a long absence due to illness, hospitalization, working on a website and writing a book, and all the other crud that happened in between. I'm raring and ready to get my garden started, so will...
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Drainage issues after repotting
I bought some young tomato and strawberry plants today to grow in containers as I have a small garden. I planted these out using grow bag compost specifically for fruit and veg into a rattan hanging...
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Watering tomato in pot.
I have a tomato in about a 10 gallon pot. I assume it takes in heat and my dry out sooner than in the ground, i have 4 inches of pine bark mulch. Last year I drench once daily about 3 in the afternoon...
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Question for garlic growers
I'm growing garlic for the first time. My mistake. I won't do it again and am considering composting what's in the beds now. The garlic is inhospitable to everything that I'd normally be planting now...
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Which Gardening Moves Burn Most Calories?
Which Gardening Moves Burn Most Calories? By Kiera Butler | Mon Apr. 5, 2010 2:30 AM PDT ? Image courtesy of Flickr user ezioman Last weekend, when I finally ventured into my backyard garden after a...
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What ate my brassicas??!
I have just started gardening after years in a flat/prison. I have built eight raised beds and planted some brassicas in most of them. All went well for a couple of weeks and the plants established,...
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Asparagus
Cut our first asparagus of 2010 this morning. Lightly steamed, placed on a slice of toasted homemade whole grain bread and topped with a poached egg. When cut, the egg yolk serves as the sauce. One of...
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Creative Propagation '92
Dan, no way I can read the old version and the new to compare and contrast, The best I can do is give you the table of contents and make the observation that this previous rendition was written by...
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Transplant arcane terminology
The recent post on seed propagation got me wondering if there are terms that denote a practice that is of value. Here is one I grew up with. "Mudding them in." Which suggests new transplants like it...
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Is this lettuce safe to eat?
I planted lettuce in the fall of last year. I live in Tennessee. It never really grew. We had a cold winter, got snow,frost, etc. Now it's spring and the lettuce is now doing great. A few spots, but...
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Lagging Grape Vines
Most of my grape vines have put out leaves here in Central Maryland, just north of Baltimore. There are three which have lots of buds but which haven't opened yet. I figure that the two Traminette...
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Wood From Pallets - Treated Or Safe?
I have access to a small supply of discarded pallets from unloading trucks. Is this wood safe for building raised beds for vegetables? How can I tell if it is treated or not? Thanks.
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Planting Onions on top of the ground
Has anyone done this? A friend said he had great results just setting the onion sets on the surface of damp ground on a 6" x 6" spacing. Said he had to keep the birds from messing with them, but in a...
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watering blueberries and peaches.
I put in a peach and some blueberries a year ago. They look like they are now acclimated and growing well, The Peach (perhaps 2" trunk, 9' tall) is loaded with small fruit about the size of a nickle....
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