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Tomato Harvest
Starting to enjoy natures bounty... :-) I've been pulling yellow cherry tomatoes off all week. Very tasty though he skin is a bit tough. I took a medium sized yellow heirloom (been ripening in a paper...
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Contaminated Manure/compost
I apologise if this has already been posted elsewhere, You will be aware of the problems gardeners experienced last year re: use of manure that had been contaminated with aminopyralid - a particularly...
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Is there an easy way to spot tomato worms?
I just found two of my tomato plants nibbled down quite a bit. I suspect tomato worms. We had these two years ago, but didn't seem to have a problem last year. Trouble is, our vines are up to nine...
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Greenhouse Tomato disaster - help please
Hi For the second year running my greenhouse tomatoes are struggling with a vicious fungal infection. All the plants of different types seem to be affected. The tomato flowers seem to be the problem....
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Jerusalem artichoke, where to plant
Hello. We have a root of dated Jerusalem Artichoke in the refrigerator. Where is a good local to plant this? It would be great to have a flowering 'food' just spread it's way across an area. We've...
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Evict a groundhog family - mothballs ok?
Hello. We have a ground hog family living near the garden. They like to eat everything. will a few moth balls down the hole do the trick or are they too toxic? Thank you, Darrell Ulm
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Slugs + Iron Phosphate, Good or bad?
Have a slug problem everywhere. Some 'escar-go' which is Iron Phosphate seems to do the trick. We are trying not to chem up our food garden too much. The beer in cup method worked, but this year there...
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Increase potato yield, how?
Hello, Tried to grow potato plants this year, and worked out pretty well. Any good way to increase yield in a small space 10'x5'. Is it better to bury deep all at once or bury the plant a little at a...
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What's On Our Food?
Scary. http://whatsonmyfood.org/Charlie
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Blossom end rot
I've been getting what I believe is blossom end rot on my tomatoes. Being a novice gardener I'm unsure just what is normal tomato growth. Seems like the tomatoes stop growing at a certain point and...
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Everything in my plastic greenhouse is dying!
I have a plastic greenhouse containing cucumbers, courgettes and three types of tomoatoes; plum, golden and russian black. Everything was going well until last week when some of the leaves on my...
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What's wrong with my apple tree?
All the leaves have spots/bumps on them. I don't know what it is, but I'm hoping it can be fixed. Here's a picture of what one of the leaves look like, front and back: zone 5a
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Tomatoes: Me: 1, Critters: 1
I had two early tomatoes, out ahead of the big batch coming down the line. I picked the first a few days ago (terrific). I went to check the other last night, and it had been gnawed to the stem. Oh...
 
Hydroponics?
Any hydro marijuana growers here?
 
Plant I.D. needed.
Plant whose tag got lost two years ago are starting to bloom. first plant (plant_1) has reddish stalks and looks like a mint. The second plant has large leaves. Any ideas?
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