Fruit and Vegetable Gardening

Ping Songbird: onion seeds

Hi Songbird, The green onions I planted last years in my farrow bin are going nuts! I have been ripping their leaves of...

5 comments posted 6yrs

posted by T

5 comments posted 6yrs posted by T

Possible freeze. To water or not to water?

Hi All, I am not suppose to plant/transplant until the first week in June. We have been having a lot of hot weather, so...

18 comments posted 6yrs

posted by T

18 comments posted 6yrs posted by T

Dry enough to plow

Is also dry enough to start planting . Got the weeds knocked down and the garden tilled today , and started planting wi...

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posted by snag_one

3 comments posted 6yrs posted by snag_one

Hoop House Worked Well

We removed the hoop house tunnel from one of the garden rows today. The beans and corn that my wife planted in there on...

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posted by pintiha

0 comments posted 6yrs posted by pintiha

on to the next part

today i finally finished up breaking apart all the old rotting pallets. what a mess. i rescued what wood i could and th...

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posted by songbird

6 comments posted 6yrs posted by songbird

And so it begins

 Today was tilling day for a new patch to plant some blueberries and most of the rest of the garden . It was also bee h...

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posted by snag_one

9 comments posted 6yrs posted by snag_one

hoarders and greenhouse plants?

Hi All, Are the hoarders going to buy out all the green house plants too? Or just seeds? -T

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posted by T

17 comments posted 6yrs posted by T

Where to buy seeeds

Hi All, I just got my computer prompt to buy seeds to plant in late may. Problem: Burpee is out of stock on virtually e...

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posted by T

8 comments posted 6yrs posted by T

New Gardener

I have a retired friend who decided to take up vegetable gardening this yea r. My wife and I discussed various basic ga...

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posted by pintiha

6 comments posted 6yrs posted by pintiha

Mealy Bugs

My wife keeps her citrus trees in the greenhouse over the winter. This year, they had a really bad infestation of mealy...

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posted by pintiha

1 comments posted 6yrs posted by pintiha

Potatoes Planted

We finished planting the potatoes today, Thursday, 3/26. We planted the fir st half on Tuesday but yesterday was rainin...

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posted by pintiha

2 comments posted 6yrs posted by pintiha

getting to a bean picture

well with all the stuff going on here (family and otherwise) i've not been able to get as much time on the bean picture...

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posted by songbird

10 comments posted 6yrs posted by songbird

Bent Fence Posts

I use the T-bar metal fence posts around our place. I have several which ar e bent; I've tried to straighten them out w...

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posted by pintiha

1 comments posted 6yrs posted by pintiha

Garlic, Onions and first harvest

Hi All, We had some warm weather earlier this week and my garlic had a growth spurt. They are now 6 to 8 inches tall. S...

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posted by T

2 comments posted 6yrs posted by T

Biennial plants for seed production

I have a couple dozen Macomber Rutabaga plants in the greenhouse, started from seed last fall. The greenhouse is attach...

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posted by garygarlic

1 comments posted 6yrs posted by garygarlic