gardening

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In the spirit of preparedness, I decided to plant my biggest garden yet. I ordered a variety of heirloom seeds and three weeks ago spent an entire day planting seeds. I have two large tray filled with seedlings that all germinated wonderfully. The last 3 days, I’ve been putting the trays under...

How many of you have ever used cattle panels to make garden trellises or to make low cost hoop houses/greenhouses? I ran across a few Youtube videos this Spring showing how they can be made for only a little money (about $21.00 each panel) I was inspired to try one (or two) out in my...

I have some turmeric grown from some store bought rhizomes. Wanted to use some for cooking today, but the home grown stuff had no flavor. WTF? 290

More pictures than I've been through, but the collection of tools is huge! I have no connection to the sale other than wishing I had the time, $$ and a big trailer :-( https://www.estatesales.net/NC/Greensboro/27406/1975758

No matter what the Doom and Gloomers predict I'll just keep marching along on my little postage stamp homestead trying to create a living Permaculture landscape of abundant perennial food sources instead of "pretty landscape plants" put in by the previous owner. As the weather is now cool...

I have some raspberry plants that stopped producing after 2 years. They were sold as not needing male and female plants. Someone told me they may only produce on new canes. I forgot to cut down the canes in the fall. Is it to late to do this for raspberries this year. Also is there another...

I have been messing around a lot of recent looking after a friends plants while he is away and also a garden area where I live. I get really great results using granite rock dust and blood meal. The stuff I use is in a dust fineness. It sticks to leaves and has to be washed off...

Loyalty Drawing Prize winner for 23-Variety Non-Hybrid Seed Kit! has been announced. Customer #8551 will get the kit soon.... This year's Loyalty Royalty program is a slam-dunk in terms of getting something for nothing. In fact, for some, it will be a lot for nothing. Our buyers club members...

Posting this on the main because it is so time sensitive - Amazon Kindle books 1.99 today over 100 books on everything from home butchering and preserving, to knitting and livestock. These are mostly "real" books, I have a number in hard copy that I actually got on Kindle too for quick reference...

This past year I planted two varieties of carrot, Scarlet Nantes and St Valery. In the fall I dug them up and reburied each in an easily accessible spot. I noticed after a few months that one pile seemed to degrade at a slower rate. And my problem...I can't remember which variety went into...