Fruit and Vegetable Gardening

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So far so good

  Put all my tomato seedlings in the ground yesterday using the "posthole" method . Used  my post hole digger to make t...
11 comments posted 8yrs
posted by snag_one
11 comments posted 8yrs posted by snag_one

starting back up for the year

pulling off the last of the old bean vines from the fence. chopping up the wild grapevines so i can spread them on the...
13 comments posted 8yrs
posted by songbird
13 comments posted 8yrs posted by songbird

trellis for beans

  I'll be planting some of the white greasy beans songbird sent me (as well as a bush variety), and am wondering about...
9 comments posted 8yrs
posted by snag_one
9 comments posted 8yrs posted by snag_one

Warming mats and root development

  Is there a correlation ? I've put the mat back under a selection of the seedlings that seem to be lagging in that dep...
2 comments posted 8yrs
posted by snag_one
2 comments posted 8yrs posted by snag_one

Foiling Bugs and Bambi

  Well , for sure Bugs and maybe Bambi . Just finished redoing the fencing around the garden . I had to rework it to in...
16 comments posted 8yrs
posted by snag_one
16 comments posted 8yrs posted by snag_one

Peat Pots

and Piss Poor Performance . I don't understand it , the same seed , soil , and growing conditions and the plastic cells...
17 comments posted 8yrs
posted by snag_one
17 comments posted 8yrs posted by snag_one

A berry good plan ?

  We had a pretty nice strawberry patch until I let the grass get started . It soon overwhelmed the berries ... I consi...
1 comments posted 8yrs
posted by snag_one
1 comments posted 8yrs posted by snag_one

Good time to seed radishes?

I'm in central Illinois and was wondering if now would be a good time to spread some radish seeds in the garden? It see...
1 comments posted 8yrs
posted by unknown
1 comments posted 8yrs posted by unknown

Rabbit Raisins

  Free for hauling it off ! My neighbor raises rabbits , and he figures 3 wheelbarrows full of droppings/bedding is eno...
10 comments posted 8yrs
posted by snag_one
10 comments posted 8yrs posted by snag_one

Ping songbird

  Did the package arrive yet ?
0 comments posted 8yrs
posted by snag_one
0 comments posted 8yrs posted by snag_one

Re-powering a tiller

Oh dear me dear me , the free tiller won't start ... again this year . Always been difficult and I'm tired of throwing...
8 comments posted 8yrs
posted by snag_one
8 comments posted 8yrs posted by snag_one

Spinach with berries? Hmmmmmm

Spinach with berries ??????? What do you guys think? Worth a black thumb trying out? https://www.rareseeds.com/strawberr...
5 comments posted 8yrs
posted by T
5 comments posted 8yrs posted by T

I got a surprise with my potted mini-rose

On Valentine's day, my husband bought me a potted miniature rose. It had white blossoms with a pink flush to the petals...
19 comments posted 8yrs
posted by countd
19 comments posted 8yrs posted by countd

Do deciduous plants grow in the winter?

Hi All, I may just be my eyes, but it looks like my Goji Berries have grown about a foot over the winter with all their...
2 comments posted 8yrs
posted by T
2 comments posted 8yrs posted by T

FODMAP

Thought group might be interested in this: https://cen.acs.org/articles/96/i6/the-chemistry-based-diet-thats-treating-i...
12 comments posted 8yrs
posted by frank
12 comments posted 8yrs posted by frank