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Almost anything is disgusting when cooked wrong. Let me guess--slimy, stringy, and tasteless with a hint of bitter.

Most of the history "facts."

Problem is it's only one rock. Priority paralysis sets in pretty quickly.

Mixed herbs and flowers. Whatever your parents will use. Design it to keep weeds to a minimum by using perennial groundcovers that will still let the plants come up in the spring, or use foundation plants that don't die back to the root. You want minimum work, maximum production. Nasturtiums...

Almost two years now. 10 year warranty on the panels. You may have accidentally gotten the pvc panels. No warranty on those, and they deteriorate quickly. I have used the pvc panels only where they won't be in the sun.

Just found two of these...in my watermelon patch. Opportunistic jerks. Look closely. I can't remember what it's called. Looks like a thorned watermelon, but it's in the nightshade family. Flowers look like a tomato flower. You see one of these, do not attempt to touch it without heavy gloves!

Funny how you need to have muscles in order to get muscles. About half the deep box in front of the greenhouse is full. I filled it with woodchips last fall and am now topping it off with compost. This will be my kitchen herb garden. Perennials oregano, marjoram, thyme, sage, parsley. I'll let...

Never tried that, but we used an awful lot of rope.

Is that the bass "Hey, lady lady!" I hear by the neighbor's pond? 😁

Nope. Most grocery store beets have male stetility (no pollen)

Not sure yet how that will work. I'm thinking of potato towers. On a related note, the Kenebec are sad but blooming, while the grocery store potatoes are all but dead

I remember those days! Packing cement block, pvc and 2x4's in a Ford Ecort! Later I used my Dad's SUV and drove home from Lowes all hunched down because there was stuff sticking out the drivers side window as well as in the middle. Good thing the trip was short.

Green beans I planted last week are up. I'm seeing a few beets. Those beets that survive will be encouraged to go to seed for my first year of adaptation. Cantaloupe/honeydew/whatever melons are up--they all washed downhill during the rain and ended up in a big clump. That's ok, I'll maybe get...

100+ degrees for weeks on end, no water from May to September, sometimes October, and the plants still thrived. Something to consider. We water far more than most plants actually need.

Would it work in a passive solar greenhouse? I could also grow it as an annual...

This may sound odd, but if you have the space set aside a section that you water half as much, if at all. From the moment the seeds go in the ground. I usually gave seeds in my dry garden plenty of water when I planted them, then nothing. Thrive or die. This was in an area with 12 inches of...

That's where a greenhouse comes in handy. I can scratch the gardening itch when there's snow on the ground.

I was more concerned about cold, but rain is something I'm still not used to thinking about. Thanks!

Planted more tomatoes, luffa, and cucumber seeds. Trying to decide if marjoram should go in the greenhouse, or outside.

Still alive. The mulch is below the graft and only partial. The soil is heavy clay, saturated by rain. About ten feet away the "water level" is less than six inches below the surface. None of the other trees (peaches, apricots, cherries, almonds, apples, plums and pears, mostly seedlings)...