Fruit and Vegetable Gardening

Great snakes! Have ye forgotten what day it is? (2025 Update)

-- Billy E Pluribus Unum Know where your money is tonight? It's making the lives of Wall Street Bankers more comfortable...

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posted by wildbilly

3 comments posted 14yrs posted by wildbilly

Janet Baraclough

Someone looking for Janet Baraclough over in misc.rural. Could be a process server for all I know, but if someone knows...

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posted by wildbilly

0 comments posted 14yrs posted by wildbilly

Advice needed on sowing seeds

Hi all im Dale and new to the forum, I need some advice on sowing some seeds ive bought off the internet. These include...

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posted by tarantula_123.9d95a96

5 comments posted 14yrs posted by tarantula_123.9d95a96

taking chances with early plantings

it being so warm and due to be for a week at least (in the 80sF tomorrow forecast) perhaps i can get some sprouts up of...

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posted by songbird

11 comments posted 14yrs posted by songbird

raspberry glencoe

hi my first thread on garden banter.planted a couple of glencoe raspberries last year and would like to know what pruni...

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posted by bob.mclaughlin.9d80917

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Advice for Complete Novice

Last year I managed to successfully grow some very nice chillies in a pot on the kitchen window ledge. Having managed t...

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posted by JonnyBeBad.9d6b796

6 comments posted 14yrs posted by JonnyBeBad.9d6b796

What is likely eating the foliage off my small tomatoes?

This has happened before. Maybe if I go out at night with a flashlight I will catch the culprits, but right now I can o...

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posted by man

9 comments posted 14yrs posted by man

Tomato starts

Mine have been up for a few days , and I've noticed the leaves are kinda yellow . These are planted in potting/starter...

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posted by snag_one

5 comments posted 14yrs posted by snag_one

Composting: Cat Manure

Is there any reason not to put cat manure in a compost bin? Dick

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posted by rdadams

18 comments posted 14yrs posted by rdadams

Cucumbers

Is the temperature range I am having in the greenhouse causing the leaves to curl? MJ

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posted by mjciccarel

6 comments posted 14yrs posted by mjciccarel

Nature that Nurtures

Scientific American, March 12, 2012 p. 24 Nature that Nurtures Dismissed as peripheral to medical treatment for much of...

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posted by wildbilly

3 comments posted 14yrs posted by wildbilly

Yesterday ..

Since the frost free date here is supposedly around 4/15 , I started a few things . Tomatoes , peppers , pumpkins , and...

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posted by snag_one

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Peppers

I just read that spraying Epsom Salt on pepper plants and re applying in 10 days makes a huge difference in the amount a...

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posted by mjciccarel

36 comments posted 14yrs posted by mjciccarel

Progress

Over the last couple of days I have transplanted 321 seedlings and planted 36 tomato seeds. I planted 66 beet seeds and...

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posted by susan_r23666

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a small study of rotting

towards the end of December i had bags of left over soybean husks to use eventually in the worm bins. not wanting to pa...

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posted by songbird

16 comments posted 14yrs posted by songbird