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Wow! Amazing how giant that elephant ear is! I did not lose any plants this winter, although none of my winter vegetables did anything. I had found a portable greenhouse like a pop-up tent on Craigslist for $50. New is several hundred dollars. I do almost all my plants in selfwater containers...

I am so glad you are enjoying the ramblings! I have been hoping other gardeners from the south would jump in since we have issues different from the north. How annoying to lose plants! Hard to defend from hail without a greenhouse... :( if you happen to run across the name of those peas I...

Updates from the central FL garden... My new parsley is alive, but all the zucchinni died except for one. The eggplant is doing wonderfully! I actually have little fruits and lots of lively purple blossoms! I found corn ears on my corn plants, and this was a surprise. I thought they were...

Went to Home Depot for a toilet flush repair kit and checked out with a bag of organic soil, a large eggplant plant, a parsley, and zucchinni seedlings I could not resist: got to the car and realized I did not get the repair kit! Got the parsley and zucchinni planted, but the eggplant is in a...

I am not sure if you mean an ant with both red and black, or two types of ants, one that is all black, and one that is all red. There are a lot of different kinds of ants, and not all pose a problem: they do participate in cycling back of matter for building new plants. That said, if they are...

Oh...one more thought: huglekultur! Burying your thick wood pieces and planting on top of that creates a microclimate because the wood absorbs and slowly releases water... This is a great thing to do that really works. The wood provides a habitat for microorganisms the plants need, and...

I apologize for being slow to respond...our dog got bloat and we had to put him to sleep. I was too sad to be communicating: he was the farm dog from my sister who passed away a year and a half ago...my squirrel and hawk chasing chicken protector who had the biggest heart in the world! He had a...

Well, one year I had a huge planting of cucumbers (another veggie we spend a fortune to purchase) the seedlings were all doing really well! Until... The massive stinkbug infestation. Every plant was entirely covered with stinkbugs! Lost them all! My cucs have been getting off to a slow start...

I subscribe to a youtube channel called "growing your greens". The guy, John, does all kinds of posts and he recently took a trip to Florida and posted about places he visited, like groves and farms. He talked in one about a vining cherry tomato called "everglades" which is actually native to...

Yes! Wearing sweaters (and boots!) is not a lot of fun when the daytime hours are sure to warm up from when one dressed in the morning... And scarves! I miss scarves! People look at me like I am nuts for having one even on the days I can get away with it. I am really surprised how much you...

Thanks for joining us! Mulch is a wonderful thing! The areas where I mulch show significant difference from just plain dirt. Florida tends to be drought or flood. We are so sandy that water just drains away. The normal water table is about 4 to 10 feet down, depending upon how much rain we have...

Irony! My DH went grocery shopping and brought home a big bag of greenbeans: the next day I discover my bush beans are LOADED! :/ Corn and southern peas are coming along nicely. Lost 3 of my tomatos to powdery white mildew. I had one plant of a different variety that responded to the cinnamon...

I really appreciate your input! I have been thinking of trying something along those lines, but really had no idea how it held up over time. My biggest concerns are the health of the tree due to that root girdling and the increased likelihood of tipping in a storm. We get those high winds all...

Fruit trees and animals and growing requirements.... Well I ordered fruit trees that I want even though I am concerned over the required "chill hours" for fruiting. We seem to be having more cold and longer periods of cold in our winters, and I hope to be able to help the trees stay cold by...

Great instructions! You make it sound easy:) I'll have to get some peat...

Well, we had a break in the rain, so I went out and dug out the potato plants that were near the spill: made me want to cry when I found 8 of the cutest little potatoes growing in the ruined soil...sigh... On the bright side, though, I now know I can successfully grow a potato! Half of the ones...

ROFL! How crazy!! I cannot imagine sitting in my house and seeing the mailman climbing my fence and trampling my plants! People can be just bizarre! Hey, you do flowers, digginindirt: do you know about starting camellias without rooting powder from cuttings? I have bright green shoots right now...

Yes, it can be a problem for pets or children. I will blend the raw bacon and ten mix in the poison. Place the mix into something like a small lidded yogurt cup and punch holes large enough for ants to enter, then put the cup down in dirt near a nest with large a 12 x12 patio paver on top to...

Well, I have been looking for plants that will do double duty as both people and chicken food and also things to supplement the chickens food. I was surprised to see a study that examined both of two the plants I have been looking at: http://www.lrrd.org/lrrd22/12/saro22225.htm Sweet potato...

If you want green onions you do not need onion sets! When you use an onion from the store, cut it carefully: cut above the root mass toward the center, but not cut the center where the inside of the onion gets small. Make four shallow vertical cuts and carefully peel off the layers until you...