Hi, everyone!  *waves* I’m new to this community (but have been lurking for a month or so) and VERY new to gardening.  My mother was a spectacular and avid gardener but I never really got into it.  Lo and behold at 26 after a brutally busy few years I all of the sudden got SUPER [...]

Ok, two questions for all you lovely folks! First off, I have sunflowers, which I adore. However, it seems that some type of white fly thing just SMOOTHERS them. At first I thought they were aphids, but they’re too big, and grey-ish white in color, and they fly really, really easily. I hose them off [...]

I recently took over an apartment that has a washing machine. It’s an Electrolux frontloader and works great – its just that it smells and so does the clothes. It doesn’t smell bad, but it smells very, very strongly of detergent. I know the previous owner of the apartment and I bet she used way [...]

I was thrilled after going in my veg garden today to see that a blossom has arrived on my lovely Black Zucchini, and looky here, two tiny tomatoes forming on my ‘pet’ black cherry plant, I love these tomatoes, sorry the sun was brilliant, the glow is not normal, they do not glow in the [...]

Hey all… I’m wondering if anyone local to Baltimore might be interested in heirloom tomato seedlings. I’ve got around 200 that need new homes DESPERATELY. I’ve planted all I can fit in my garden plots. I currently have Cherokee Purple, German Johnson, Marglobe, and Kellogg’s Breakfast seedlings in flats on my porch. They need to [...]

Dulcy is one of my favorite writers. For anyone in zone 7, this is essential reading! Dulcy Mahar: Like fortune cookies, the cryptic phrases on plant labels require interpretation By Dulcy Mahar, Special to The Oregonian May 31, 2010, 6:30AM No question that it’s important to read labels to get a sense of what conditions [...]

My partner and I bought a house last year. The house was in need of serious cosmetic work (and still is – progress is slooow) and so was the garden. The previous owners had moved out several months before we moved in, and the garden was pretty much dead–the flowerbeds were buried beneath months of [...]

Look what I found in the back yard yesterday. This past Friday at a garden center, there was also this: I

Hi everyone. I’m the one who posted recently about mystery plants growing in my flower box. Long story short: my parents gave me a container filled with soil to use as a flower box. Turns out one of them planted seeds in it before they gave it to me. They are swearing up and down [...]

 Does anyone have a good, tried and true, fairly simple, recipe for an organic seed starting mix?