Fruit and Vegetable Gardening

Pacific Northwest Tomatoes

I live in Blaine, WA and have had a terrible year with my tomato plants. I've been growing them for several years now w...

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posted by mht

6 comments posted 20yrs posted by mht

Green Tomatoes

Note: I've posted a similar post to this on rec.food.cooking so if you post on both please excuse the redundancy. TIA I...

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posted by noones_home

11 comments posted 20yrs posted by noones_home

Meyers Lemon

I started a thread a while back about my Meyers Lemon tree, however I am having problems posting to it now, so here is...

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posted by jaypelham

5 comments posted 21yrs posted by jaypelham

Late Jalapenos

I started a Jalapeno plant very late in the season. I am just beginning to see flower buds. However, the nighttime temp...

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posted by jaypelham

5 comments posted 21yrs posted by jaypelham

The power of the rain

I had a vivid lesson today in what the rain can do to one's crops. After several weeks of little or no rain, we had 9mm...

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posted by shazzbat

6 comments posted 21yrs posted by shazzbat

Method for freezing Banana Peppers?

I've harvested what will probably be the last of my peppers. Some that I just picked are a little soft and wrinkled nea...

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posted by <nowhere

2 comments posted 21yrs posted by <nowhere

Eggplant Suggestions

I have put in a few eggplants around August 1st, and they are doing well (central North Carolina). What can I do to kee...

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posted by garyak22

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Hudson Valley Garlic Festival

Companion and I got to Saugerties at 10 A.M., just an hour after the opening gun, and still had to deal with the Mongol...

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posted by garyusenet

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When is squash ready to pick?

I have been growing Musquee De Provence Squash this year here in a Chicago suburb. It really put out a lot of runners a...

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posted by sherwindu

2 comments posted 21yrs posted by sherwindu

Garlic Festival

Last year someone asked me to remind them when the garlic festival was going to be this year but I don't recall who. :-...

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posted by calvins

4 comments posted 21yrs posted by calvins

Raised Beds Soil Questions

This is my second season using raised vegetable beds. I started out with top soil mixed with peat moss and compost. Las...

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posted by noones_home

5 comments posted 21yrs posted by noones_home

Tomato Problem

I growing a few varieties of tomatoes - brandywine, mellow yellow, roma, beefsteak, tiny tims. All of them are fine exc...

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posted by noones_home

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Never just right...

First we had rain. Rain all spring, enough to keep the ground too soggy to work, but that didn't matter, because it was...

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posted by pperiwinkle

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fruit flies?

Hi, This is my first year in college. I've been buying a lot of fruit as it is relatively inexpensive, delicious, healt...

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posted by barnest

7 comments posted 21yrs posted by barnest

question about 'walnut' tree. edible?

i'm not sure if it's a walnut tree or not, but in the forest preserves there are these fruits that fall off trees that...

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posted by cerebureaucracy

3 comments posted 21yrs posted by cerebureaucracy