Fruit and Vegetable Gardening

support sugar snap peas

Anyone out there grow sugar snap peas? What do you use to support the vines? We have used string between 5 foot metal p...

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posted by jhoover2

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Started Early Tomatoes

So, I started my early tomatoes this weekend. I'm growing Stupice again, and trying a new one, Sophie's Choice, that I...

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posted by pperiwinkle

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Bit by the gardening bug

One of the grad students who works in the same area as me has been bitten by the gardening bug. He stops by from time t...

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posted by pperiwinkle

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Lettuce in a box

I have a few lettuces growing in an old dishpan in a glassed-in porch. The dishpan is about 9" x 14" x 4" and it has ha...

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posted by girasol83607

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Fingerlings In A Barrel Advice

I plan to grow potatoes in a tall plastic garbage barrel this year. (The barrel has a drain hole in the bottom and a se...

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posted by nospam

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Family Contest

My two uncles and I are having a gardening contest and they are saying they can beat me just because they are older tha...

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posted by leschigurl

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Seed germination?

I can use some insight on why some seeds germinate more readily than others. I have been using roughly one inc cubes of...

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posted by salmonegg

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Q : Tomato seed date in Scotland?

This year I am trying container tomatoes for the very first time. I have been recommended three varieties but was wonde...

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posted by nomail

2 comments posted 20yrs posted by nomail

Woodlice Eating Strawberries???

does anyone know if woodlice eat strawberries? Last year our crop wa ruined as soon as the fruit started to ripen somet...

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posted by colyn.21wuvz

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Onions Please Help

I planted kelsae onion seeds in December and put them in the propogator They came through okay and I transplanted them...

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posted by the.swede.21vxjy

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potatoes

I'm gonna plant them again this year. I've had problems in years past with the seed potatoes rotting in the ground inst...

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posted by spammenot

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Blackberries in a container garden?

Has anyone been successful growing blackberries in large tubs or half barrels? If so, what varieties do best? I am zone...

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posted by boron_elgar

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Kaki/persimmon tree - growing in the British Isles?

Hello all, I'm new to this forum, and being in a bit of a rush, haven't had time to read up on the group's etiquette. I...

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posted by Catherinel.21qu7y

2 comments posted 20yrs posted by Catherinel.21qu7y

Compost from cabbage, brocchili etc.

Hi: I grew a bunch (40) cabbage, brocchili caukiflowers and Brussels. I do not plan to grow them in the same area next...

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posted by joemcsmarty

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Garden fencing?

I'm in southwestern British Columbia and the area we live in has LOTS of deer and some bears in the fall. Anyone have a...

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posted by brenda_silvey

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