I love Orioles! (The bird, the team, the town, the state of MD.) Orioles are beautiful and just rare enough to give a little thrill.
VOLES!!!!! eating my watermelon and sweet pepper seedlings....twice already! I just don't have the time or the will to deal with them. Every...
I walked the community garden after planting my seedlings and noted that the eggplant in other people's plots were suffering. Much of the leaves...
OK... Updates for you all. It was supposed to rain this Memorial Day, and the help I had lined up couldn't make it after all. I had wrist...
I got a pressure cooker recently and am re-discovering potatoes. Steaming rather than boiling is really excellent for texture and keeping. I...
OK! After the rains, out came the sun! I went to the plot with my mom and the baby in the car. Got some things done fast: Removed more rebar...
Mart, I will start to get better at chatroom humor as time goes on, hopefully. ;) Sorry the snaps are climate-prohibited.
I wonder if you can just cut off the flower and treat it as a cut and come again leaf cabbage and not worry about it forming a head. ?
I am getting together my list of what's going to go in this year. I'll be heading off to buy mostly seedlings since it's past time for starting...
Folks will correct me if I am wrong, but the Sugar Snap Peas require a very early Spring start.They don't like the heat at all, let alone in...
Wow. I have been in the mid atlantic region so long I forget there are still frosty parts this time of year. Sorry for your losses. Keep going!
So interesting. What is the advantage of planting them on their sides?
I am not going to have enough time to get the cardboard wrangled before I have to plant. Believe me, I like free stuff. I do think the garden...
I have been looking for something easy to cover my tilled soil. Weed seeds and roots are inevitable and have been tilled in. I cant lift heavy...
Oh Mid-Atlantic, This soggiest of Springtimes Your wet feet are cold.
I might try to ask a few questions about what they like to eat. If they are displaced, they might really crave some comfort food from home....
Mart got me thinking about corn so I had to check yours out. Very nice indeed!
Good advice about the row covers, Carolyn, and consistent with that I read last night after you got me thinking about it. (My current favorite...
Wow, Thanks for all the welcomes! I look forward to this new adventure: both gardening and chatting about gardening.
Ugh. What can be done?
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