Tomatoes

I have the Tomatoe Wilt Virus. I am ticked off about it. What can I do? HELP.

Mushroom Bed Experiment

I put a raised bed in a couple of weeks back and took a few pictures of the installation. I’m growing tomatoes in the bed, along with wine cap stropharia mushrooms. While I’ve made up spawn on my own, I just ordered a couple of sacks of spawn from an internet vendor. I did not [...]

Gibberellic Acid

Has anyone worked with this at all? I’m not looking to put plants on steroids here, I just want to get some difficult to germinate seeds going.

What did I do wrong?

I have a big area of dirt off my main courtyard that my bedroom and studio windows face into. It’s walled in on 3 sides and covered by a patio with shadecloth. It gets a little bit of sun, is sheltered from the wind but still gets rain. A few months ago I planted a [...]

potted daffodils

The woman who sits next to me got a pot of little daffodils for Administrative Assistants Day (or whatever they’re calling it these days). They’re getting ready to bloom. After they bloom, should she plant them? Or what?

Cherry Tree? Peach Tree??

we want to plant a fruit tree in honor of our recently passed Corgi. he LOVED fruit. LOVED IT. we have a small space in front of the house that is a circle about 6 feet across. it currently holds some sort of flowering Japanese thing/tree that really is unattractive and pretty spindly. my questions are these: [...]

Garden Pics!

Hi all! Thought I’d share a view pictures from our neck o’ the woods (Atlanta, 7B). These aren’t glamour shots (the plants aren’t cleaned up, etc.), but here’s some quick pictures from yesterday afternoon: Morning Glory! This is one of the morning glories that grew from the seeds gave us. A new kind of plant [...]

Day Lilies are Trying to Take Over the World

I’ve got a tiny little garden on the side of my driveway.  There was a tree growing in my fence (it’s been cut down this year but the wood is still stuck in there)  a couple of evergreen shrubs (that will probably come out once the mocking birds leave their nest) A pretty climbing rose [...]

Raspberry bush transplanting

I am in the midst of preparing to sell my childhood home, which involves a lot of cleaning out of things and going through things and so forth. In the far southeast corner of our yard is a long row of raspberry bushes that have been here since my family bought this house in 1982. [...]

hired muscle update

A couple of weeks ago I warned my next-door allotment neighbour that hired muscle would be arriving soon, that is, she could expect to see somebody she doesn’t know working on my plot. She immediately said ‘You could hire me!’ I politely declined, because being the neighbour, she might get a bit too involved and [...]