Recent content by gardeninggirlie

This black rat snake is enjoying summer in our backyard...but in a different way.

Our chicken coop and run built Spring 2016.

Suburban homesteader

@frustratedearthmother Yes! Look for the ferny asparagus growing in ditches along roadsides, they'll be 3-4' tall, some have the red berries hanging near the stalk this time of year. Wherever you see the ferny stalks now, there will be wonderful tender asparagus next spring. In the places...

For the past two years, the kids and I have enjoyed looking for ditch asparagus in the spring. We have some really good finds with mature crowns! The best part...neither of them ever said they didn't like it. They were caught up in the excitement of the foraging to even think that anyone has...

I cut dryer sheets in half but use wool balls most of the time. Just today, my son and I were at the community garden. Someone tossed whole tomato plants and perfectly good sweet peppers in there! I skimmed off the top, finding lots of cherry tomatoes and a dozen peppers. My 4 yr old son...

Here's a better pic @MoonShadows

Here's the Pink Berkeley Tie-Dye Tomato pic, found the seeds at pinetree garden seeds catalog. Most have been medium to large, very good flavor, and the prettiest pink/red and green stripes. The pic shows the first one of the season, it was a whopper!

Thank you! I'm pretty excited today...we found a different egg yesterday afternoon in the coop, has to be from our other olive egger, they're the only two old enough to start laying. (The Welsummer is only 18wks) It's also olive in color but speckled, too! Since Friday's first ever egg, our...

I just want to make sure I have something to sell that's a bit more eye catching than the standard tomatoes, cucs, and bell peppers. In years past I've done well growing English cucumbers, they've gained in popularity. This year I had good results with Pink Berkeley Tie-Dye Tomato and Rainbow...

Hi, I found this site after becoming a member of one of the sister sites and thought this site is me to a "T"! I landscape, flower and vegetable garden, sowing most of our seeds, always mixing veggies plants in amongst the landscaping, wherever they will fit into our suburban space. I...