Welcome to the Stew from central Texas! Tell us where you are, please, so we won't recommend something totally wrong for you (I still blush when I...
Adorable! How on earth do you keep them so tidy when they are avid gardeners?
Jerry, they saw the workers at Ideal Poultry just after hatching, so they didn't bond with me when I picked them up as three-day-old chicks....
Cheryl, your green thumb extends all the way to your shoulder! I think you'll find that the gaura is attractive to pollinators, and that the...
GP, if talking to your potatoes encouragingly doesn't work, I have found that tough love does. I threaten them with dire consequences if they...
Today was warm enough to let the chicklets try out their playpen in the back yard. At first they were a little apprehensive: [img] ( photo /...
I'm going to print out your photo and wave it around my tomato patch--ours have been in-ground only a couple of weeks, but perhaps your gorgeous...
Donna, it's time to make another run to the wine store :'( . Whatever happened to customer service? Or minimal competence? I sympathize a lot....
Ronni, what great luck! That is a vermin-catching, cricket-killing Milk Snake. They are completely non-venomous, although like anything else with...
Calcium helps prevent blossom end rot, so I put a crushed egg shell into each hole when I plant tomatoes. I'm afraid that planting a whole egg...
Wow! I can surely see why that is a favorite. Gorgeous color!
Okay Cheryl, hint taken--it's kind of hard to find a day that isn't too windy for photos, but I'll do my best! Happy you like the view.
Cheryl, when we lived in town a bride-to-be wanted to have her pictures taken in our garden. She posed, not in front of the roses, not in the...
Welcome! You'll get a lot of help and encouragement here. Just ask any questions you have, and we'll try to answer.
This is the flower bed we see out our back door: [img] From our back door ( photo / image / picture from marlingardener's Garden ) This spring...
Oh, you are going to love it here! We have so many experienced gardeners, and new gardeners with new ideas and methods, and encouragement from...
Ronni, after fighting the rubber edging for a couple of years, we went to trenches around flower beds. We dug a trench about 6" deep and 6" wide...
Donna, you now have pets that will lay eggs! Be sure to keep handling them so they won't be skittish when they are older and you need to check...
Growingpains, we are trying Kennebec for the first time this year--a row and a half. We put in Red LaSodas, lots of them! Last year wasn't the...
Ronni, the mix for improving your soil is a good one. Composted cow manure won't/can't burn plants so it is the perfect fertilizer for new...
