Fruit and Vegetable Gardening

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some questions about rock fertilization

1) would you put furnace slag in your garden? if you google "slag chremical composition" the first hit is from our own...
6 comments posted 22yrs
posted by simy1
6 comments posted 22yrs posted by simy1

frost already?

last night they were forcasting "spotty frost" across the midwest. luckily, it passed me by. anyone experience a killing...
10 comments posted 22yrs
posted by brickled
10 comments posted 22yrs posted by brickled

Hello...anybody home?

Is everyone out in their gardens or is thing thing broken? Penelope
9 comments posted 22yrs
posted by pperiwinkle
9 comments posted 22yrs posted by pperiwinkle

Frank's sale started today...

...and it was mobbed. We needed some grass seed, I wanted some potting mix, and various other little things. I did trea...
1 comments posted 22yrs
posted by emjaycem
1 comments posted 22yrs posted by emjaycem

Aji Amarillo in Austin

I'm growing a Peruvian Aji Amarillo and its a great big beautiful plant with big beautiful Ajis. The problem is they've...
3 comments posted 22yrs
posted by thyroactive1
3 comments posted 22yrs posted by thyroactive1

Grow tomatoes with hairy vetch

Hi, I found these instructions on an American website. September The first step toward high tomato yields is taken in e...
1 comments posted 22yrs
posted by Vivie.veg.1d23kn
1 comments posted 22yrs posted by Vivie.veg.1d23kn

Pumkin seeds

Any hints on best way to keep pumkin, squash, corgette seeds for next year? Time to harvest, prepare etc?
4 comments posted 22yrs
posted by mervynt
4 comments posted 22yrs posted by mervynt

Interesting volunteer pepper

I talked to my brother in Houston last night, and he mentioned an interesting pepper he has this year. He grew Trinidad...
2 comments posted 22yrs
posted by zxcvbob
2 comments posted 22yrs posted by zxcvbob

Growing Oyster mushrooms

I have some older oyster mushrooms that are a little too far gone to eat. I'd like to cultivate them. When I did a goog...
29 comments posted 22yrs
posted by cpetersky
29 comments posted 22yrs posted by cpetersky

Strawberry Spacing

Hi, Everybody, Most of my growing space is 10-litre (2 and a half gal) buckets. I have seven small strawberry plants. Ho...
1 comments posted 22yrs
posted by anyone
1 comments posted 22yrs posted by anyone

Compact Acorn Squash

Years ago, when I began my gardening career, I used to grow an Acorn Squash that had a very compact growth habit instea...
2 comments posted 22yrs
posted by jomarie
2 comments posted 22yrs posted by jomarie

Henbit or Ground Ivy as living mulch?

They overrun my vege plot. Is is better just to leave them? They are very easy to remove but do they take up much nutrie...
2 comments posted 22yrs
posted by j0069bond
2 comments posted 22yrs posted by j0069bond

Fertilizer spreader clogs? any advice?

I have a newer scotts fertilizer spreader. I always seams to clog up. I think it is due to slight more in the fertilize...
3 comments posted 22yrs
posted by df
3 comments posted 22yrs posted by df

Grapes

Hello- I have decided that I am going to plant grape trees to offer a cover like ivy would for a fence. I was at a frie...
0 comments posted 22yrs
posted by not available
0 comments posted 22yrs posted by not available

Low carb, high fat cute garden plants?

I am on a low carb high fat "paleo diet". In the front yard, we have a concrete retaining wall that is a boundary of ou...
68 comments posted 22yrs
posted by ignoramus2437
68 comments posted 22yrs posted by ignoramus2437