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    Mumsy's Romantic Garden Advice

    If the tomatillos are like tomatoes sounds like too much water and not enough heat, but I have never grown them so I don't know for sure. If the gooseberries didn't set they may have never gotten pollinated. Did you see many bees this year? I have pulled the calendula seed head off before...
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    Mumsy's Romantic Garden Advice

    Hi everyone! Finally getting back into rhythm after our vacation. Beautiful photos of your harvest armor. My chickens do the same thing with our tomatoes when they are allowed in the garden. Hubby pulled up most of our tomato plants already. We have a ton in the freezer, but the brandy wine...
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    Mumsy's Romantic Garden Advice

    It did seem that the plants were worse on the coasts. I feel more comfortable now knowing others first hand experiences. Thanks.
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    Mumsy's Romantic Garden Advice

    I loved the huge rose hips and would grow it just for them, but I found this when I looked it up. Seems it is growing like a weed along coastlines in Europe. http://www.nobanis.org/files/factsheets/Rosa_rugosa.pdf Nothing we try seem to work with the tomatoes, cages fall over or the branches...
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    Mumsy's Romantic Garden Advice

    Yippee! I got them off my phone with almost no trouble! The first two are of the tomato stands they used at the MD state fair. I think we will be trying it out next year. The third photo is of a rose bush at Hershey Park with HUGE rose hips! I should have picked one, but I have no idea how...
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    Mumsy's Romantic Garden Advice

    Lowen, yes you probably have squash vine borers. If you look at them there might be a larva in them still, a white smooshy thing. It might be two late though, I know we only have two cycles of them here. Agree the other is the nightshade though I don't do anything other then pull it out of...
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    Mumsy's Romantic Garden Advice

    Very yummy Mumsy! I think Maypop is the local name for it. Some say it grows everywhere, but I don't recall seeing it anywhere. I will try to get upload the photo this weekend. Spent all afternoon trying to get the kindle fire my daughter bought to work with our Mac. Boy I am exhausted, it...
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    Mumsy's Romantic Garden Advice

    Mumsy congrats on your garden this year! Everything looks so good. Things aren't as good as they have been in the past, but I am getting tomatoes and my neighbor is getting none. Maypop Oh, we went to the state fair and they took fencing and poles to create something tomatoes could grow up...
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    Mumsy's Romantic Garden Advice

    We are zone 6 also and I am just trying to gets cool weather seeds to grow. It has been warm and dry here so only a few came up. I will probably try again next weekend or the weekend after that. I put lettuce seeds down last year and none came up for a long time. It seemed like a month or...
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    Mumsy's Romantic Garden Advice

    Lol! Armor, I thought I took the prize on my inability to grow carrots, but yours are pretty ugly! Sorry I mean no offence, but that is crazy. Not sure about blight and carrots, but I understand they need very loamy soil. I don't have much luck so I don't grow them. Your sunflower is...
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    Mumsy's Romantic Garden Advice

    Love spider wort. We had a purple plant, but the others crowded it out. Might have to look I to finding more and a place for them in the garden. They do have a nice look to them. Beautiful rose blue mouse! You are so head of the game! Have you looked into lasagna gardening? You could do...
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    Mumsy's Romantic Garden Advice

    Welcome calomel! Beautiful photos Mumsy, I can see why you spend so much time there.
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    Mumsy's Romantic Garden Advice

    Blue, glad things worked out for you regarding the stump. I am still experimenting and slowly adding one thing to our eating habits. This year I made pesto out of chickweed and dried some nettle for tea. I don't have anyone knowledgeable to help me so I am taking it slow and careful, I have...
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    Mumsy's Romantic Garden Advice

    I just googled native plants maryland and I found a 85 page book on the natives for my specific watershed.
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    Mumsy's Romantic Garden Advice

    http://eatingmymoccasinsnow.blogspot.com/2009/04/dock-rumex-crispus.html. A blog that talks about eating dock. Not the only blog I have seen about eating it. I think it depends on the lense you are looking through. Garlic and onions are bad for dairy cows because if they eat too much their...
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