Fruit and Vegetable Gardening

free plants

Hi All, I was at a customer site yesterday when the local potted plant grower came by to pick up his unsold plants. Now...

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Pumpkins Running

My pumpkins started running today, June 30. We're in Maryland, north of Baltimore. Paul

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posted by pintiha

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i forgot to say how the

worm buckets went this season... in total i put about 280lbs of worms/ worm pee/worm poo out into the gardens when i wa...

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posted by songbird

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garlic beds?

Hi All, I was thinking of digging up a spot in my garden, burring a bunch of weeds and melon rinds I have been saving i...

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When to harvest shallots?

Hi All, When is it time to harvest shallots? When the tops die? -T

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fertilizer?

Hi All, I am about to sprinkle Dr Earth's organic all purpose fertilizer on my children. I don't know what I am doing. J...

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Garlic: when to replant?

Hi All, I am about to pick my garlic. 1) when do I replant? 2) can I replant in the same place or do I have to let the s...

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When to pick garlic?

Hi All, First I picked off sprits from my garlic (yummy!). Now all of the tops have slowly died. Is it time to harvest?...

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Death to Earwigs!

Hi George and eFriends, In my ongoing fight with swarms of earwigs, I have some progress to report. And maybe this will...

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bees still alive

i plugged them up in the garden shed for the past four days with no access to water or the outside and sucked up all th...

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posted by songbird

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strawberry season pretty much over :(

hardly any rains for the past few months. the harvest was enough for us to put some jam and frozen berries in the freez...

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Needle Grass ID

One of my pastures is being taken over by a type of grass that grows in clu mps about a foot across. The grass looks li...

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posted by pintiha

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Stink bugs

Stink bugs are messing up the tomatoes big time. Put out some containers of water under each bush this morning, hoping...

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posted by gms23_39

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Picking the peas

Picked a big bucket of peas yesterday and shucked them. Went out this morning about 0800 and Lo! got about half a bucke...

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getting out early in the day

to get heavy stuff done, then come in for siesta and putter around the rest of the day. we did finally have some good r...

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posted by songbird

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