Fruit and Vegetable Gardening

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first tomato worm

of the season. yesterday. Ma had already gone out and looked, but since i was working in the fenced gardens getting the...
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posted by songbird
10 comments posted 10yrs posted by songbird

Storing Potatoes

Does anyone have a good method for storing potatoes? Keeping them refrigera ted works, but we have limited refrigerator...
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posted by pintiha
5 comments posted 10yrs posted by pintiha

doing well

sunshine, not much rain, but overall the gardens are humming along. with six beehives in the neighboring field almost a...
13 comments posted 10yrs
posted by songbird
13 comments posted 10yrs posted by songbird

zuke question

Hi All, Two of my numerous zuke plants have very short stems and small crinkly leaves. They are not growing much either...
15 comments posted 10yrs
posted by T
15 comments posted 10yrs posted by T

Hot again

We went out into the garden and yard just at sunrise this morning. Got the yard mowed and weed whacked. Watered all the...
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posted by gms23_39
1 comments posted 10yrs posted by gms23_39

Fruit conversations

What did the blackberry say to my wife ? Preserve me ! So she did , and we got 9 half-pints of delicious jam from yester...
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posted by snag_one
4 comments posted 10yrs posted by snag_one

Rain

Heavily overcast, lots of humidity, appears there might be some rain today, we hope. We're watering by hose and soakers...
13 comments posted 10yrs
posted by gms23_39
13 comments posted 10yrs posted by gms23_39

And fencing ...

We'll see if the Hooved Rats of the Forest still get in and eat my field peas ... got one strand about 2 feet off the g...
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posted by snag_one
8 comments posted 10yrs posted by snag_one

They're back!

Hi All, When I went to water the children yesterday, I noticed some strange movement on one of my zukes. On investigati...
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posted by T
1 comments posted 10yrs posted by T

Problem reduced ...

Though maybe not eliminated . Trapped a 'possum night before last out in the garden , he (definitely male) has gone to...
1 comments posted 10yrs
posted by snag_one
1 comments posted 10yrs posted by snag_one

parts 1 and 2 done

invasive grasses dug up and removed from the large spot they were at and the other spot smothered. :) now i get to plan...
3 comments posted 10yrs
posted by songbird
3 comments posted 10yrs posted by songbird

Air rifles and gardens

Our son was graced with a CO2 operated air rifle when he was nine or ten, can't remember the brand but it was .22 calib...
2 comments posted 10yrs
posted by gms23_39
2 comments posted 10yrs posted by gms23_39

Deer and gardens

Are not a good mix . Went out last night to water , found the tops of many of the field peas nibbled off . I bought an...
20 comments posted 10yrs
posted by snag_one
20 comments posted 10yrs posted by snag_one

Am I overdoing it?

Hi All, The guy that gave me the free eggplant, sold me a squirt bottle of organic fertilizer. Said his customers had g...
1 comments posted 10yrs
posted by T
1 comments posted 10yrs posted by T