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Angelica
Does anyone have any experience of grwoing Angelica? I have a small plant in a pot and want to plant it out in the garden. I assume by the look of it that it will like some protection from the savage...
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Squash Puzzlement
So, I grew a couple hills of Kabocha squash from seeds from a Seed Saver's Exchange member. Did reasonably well in a known cruddy part of the garden and a dodgy year. I stored a half-dozen squashes on...
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Figs
I am thinking of trying something next Spring. My figs never produce more than a handful of fruit because it seems they need about a month more warm weather than they get here. I'm wondering if I...
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Zucchini blossom end rot
My zuccs have BER! As I understand it the problem is due to deficiency of calcium in the plant which can be brought about by uneven water availability or lack of calcium in the soil. Well my zuccs...
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France Finds Monsanto Guilty of Lying
tiny url: gumie or if you prefer the whole url thing... http://tiny.cc/eIfTh http://www.foodconsumer.org/newsite/Politics/Politics/france_finds_monsanto_guilty_of_lying_211120090805.html
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1st Seed Catalog of the season
Yep- just got the 1st seed catalog for 2010 - Pinetree Garden Seeds. I had some good luck with some of their seeds last year, and I like the fact that many of their seed packets are smaller (and...
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Potato experiment.
Every year we seem to have volunteer potato plants which have grown from potatoes we've missed when digging the previous year's crop. These volunteers always seem to produce a large healthy crop of...
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Potatoes
I had my first garden potatoes this year. It was just a test plot of 5' x 4'. For an investment of two seed potatoes, I got two colanders of potatoes back. The soil is heavy clay, so I lightened it...
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fixing potting soil
This question is applicable to a lot more than edible crops, but I'd like to understand better about potting soil, whether for starting plants or for container gardening. I've been using the cheap...
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Help: are these really persimmons?
I bought a persimmon tree years ago as an ornamental, (I'm in BC, Canada, near the 49th paralel, so its fruit would not ripen here). The tree produces a heavy crop each year, but my "persimmons" don't...
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Regarding smart-stax GE corn in general and specifically in Canada
http://tinyurl.com/y9xbfsx http://www.cban.ca/Resources/Topics/GE-Crops-and-Foods-On-the-Market/Corn http://www.cban.ca/Resources/Topics/GE-Crops-and-Foods-On-the-Market/Corn
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Attn: Steve, Billy and others
Came across this, and other links on the page, and found them very well produced. Old news really, more detailed and more info, for video production. Link to dangers of aspartame use and other...
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Chives Going To Seed?
Hey, everybody, long time no write... I've got some chives that seem to be blossoming. It is a sort of spherical thingy on the tip, with a bundle of purple bumps. It is only happening on a few of...
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?? seed potatoes vendor
Anybody have a line on a U.S.A. seed potato vendor who has stock for autumn delivery? An online vendor would be frosting on the cake. Even if I'm too late for this year, I'd like a reference to...
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Bad potato crop
Due to a severe bad back during the summer and early autumn I have TODAY harvested all of my potatoes and it was not a very pretty sight. I may have enough potatoes for one meal for one person. Every...
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