Hi Growest, Thank you for your comments. I was planning on mulching them up with a lot of straw because our snow cover can be unpredictable to...
Thank you both for your input, it is very much appreciated. I really like the nursery bed idea, and I have lots of room in my existing garden...
I am planning on taking softwood cuttings from a friend's hedge (it looks like privet, but doesn't appear to be horribly invasive) in order to...
Last year, I planted 4 different types of heirloom tomatoes, a total of about 60 plants. I had never grown tomatoes before, so I applied all the...
Update on the W/S: I bought the thyme seeds in England back in 1996 - The seed pack calls it "Common" Thyme and refers to it as being an edible...
Thank you all for your help and the quick responses! I sort of suspected that #1 might be a weed, but it's really rather pretty and makes rather...
One more time... I obviously didn't wait long enough for the uploads....
This is my first attempt to post photos on this site - so far, I'm not encouraged as I'm not seeing them in the preview. Oh well, hopefully they...
Just for fun, I'm trying something called 'winter sowing' this year. http://www.wintersown.org/wseo1/How_to_Winter_Sow.html Boy, if this works,...
This is my second year of starting most of my garden from seed, indoors. We live in Nova Scotia, on the South Shore - while this qualifies as...
I've never tried reconstituting the tomatoes in anything other than olive oil infused with raw garlic and other spices, but I'm sure you are right...
Unfortunate reference to 'chip', sorry. I'm not explaining myself very well. If I start with two equal weight tomatoes, one really juicy (which...
