Welcome to the forum from a small farm in central Texas. Be sure to tell us about your gardening adventures!
[img] Dark Lady rose ( photo / image / picture from marlingardener's Garden ) This rose is for you, all of you who have given me great advice,...
Eileen, thank you for explaining that so clearly even I could understand. You are the computer guru! :smt024
Well, IF I get shallots, and IF they grow well for me, I'll send you a few to see if they grow for you as well. That's a lot of IFs!
Question from a computer know-nothing: what is the BBCode that can be disabled for a post? I've been looking at that for over a year, and can't...
Ed, the minimum size for one tomato plant is 5 gallons. If you can get a bigger container, that's even better. Bush type tomatoes and cherry...
Dooley, you certainly have the right attitude! :-D
Every green thing around here is way ahead of schedule. The oats are almost ready to harvest, the winter wheat, ditto, and there are a couple of...
Carolyn, I figured their cultivation was pretty much like onions and garlic, who really don't like weeds, so thank you for confirming my...
Happy Birthday, and I hope you get lots of presents that you can plant!
Yes, they are sets, a red French variety that I really wanted to try! I'll try e-mailing Shumway to ship in September (hope their customer service...
Sjoerd, I wish you had Monarchs too, but I'm sure you have lovely things we have never seen! I explained instars, etc. on the "Monarchs in our...
If, after you have cut the "bush" down, there is a small stump remaining, you can put a high nitrogen fertilizer on the stump to kill roots. It...
Hello and welcome to the Stew! You'll love it here--friendly people, good garden advice, and lots of beautiful photos of gardens and pets.
I'm a little vague on technical terms, but I'll do my best! The first instar is the tiny caterpillar that hatches from the egg. As it eats and...
Your wife does have great taste--in wind spinners, and in husbands!
Sjoerd, your wish is my command! I just posted on the Members' Gallery some photos we've sent to the Larva Project. Tooty, I'll sort through the...
Sjoerd asked to see some monarch photos, so I dug through our photo file and got these: This is the milkweed that the monarchs use to lay eggs,...
Jerry, yes, we do. The MLMP (Monarch Larva Monitoring Project) is out of the University of Minnesota, and they have monitors and monitoring sites...
When I volunteered at a native garden at a college, the horticulturist used SuperThrive or its equivalent when we transplanted something, and only...
