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Has anyone ever tried substituting butternut squah for pumpkin? I have had no luck with pumkins yet, but I have a ton of butternut squash. Thanks!

Thanks everyone for the great advice. I will repot them now and experiment with where to put them.

Has anyone ever kept tarragon and thyme through the winter? I have a sun room that I keep plants in and have had mixed success keeping them alive. Should I divide them before I bring them in? If they are going to die, I will just harvest and dry the leaves. Any tips would be helpful. Thanks!

I am looking forward to making pumpkin beer. One of the best things about fall!

My mom used to put sliced beets in a jar of sweet pickle brine after we had eaten the pickles. They were picked in a a week or so. If you keep them in the refrigerator they should last a long time and just keep getting better. I guess that is the cheater's way of doing it, but they are good!

Hello! This is only my second year gardening and I made a rookie mistake. I accidentally fried my zucchini plants' leaves by spraying them for powdery mildew when it was sunny. This happened last week. Now they have started to bounce back with new growth but I only have a couple of male...

Oh no! I threw mine out! I asked a local farmer about those and he said he didn't know what I was talking about! Maybe I will get potato vines in my compost next year. :(

Those sound great Lesa! This is my first year with butternut sqush, can you substitute this puree pumpkin in recipes?

I would try a different variety of seeds/peppers. I had the same trouble with peppers last year but I was given a packet of banana peppers this year and they have taken off. They mature much more quickly that other types I have tried and we have had a wet and cool summer this year. Plus they...

I have those peppers too, but of course I can;t remember what I planted. I will tell you that they do turn red and are incredible on homemade pizza or even frozen pizza that you cook yourself. Just make sure you chop them fine cause they're hot!

If you have kids around you can do what we did when we were kids. Catch the beetles in our cupped hands, shake them up and throw them on the ground and squish them before they can fly away. I think my mom may have taught us this "game" to keep them off the roses. :)

Raised beds are a wonderful luxury but you don't need them to have a good crop. Earwigs are terrible things and must be destroyed no matter what the organic gardening website says. No matter when you start your peppers it always seems like forever until you can pick the first one.

Gone2seed- Check under the leaves for squash bug eggs. They will be in little clusters and take your fingers and squish them. Squash bug and borers are aparently really common in NC. According to my friend at NC State they are more prevelent here than in other parts of the country...

Hey Kate! I am suprised you have a problem with Spooky around. We have deer in the field next to us who have never touched my garden. I thought it was the dog hair that I sprinkled in there BUT based on what other people have said maybe it is because Dixie uses the bathroom between the field...

Thank you so much for that bindweed solution. It is what I have been looking for! Have you tried anything aside from Roundup? Do you think vinegar would work?

I sauteed some swiss chard with bacon and garlic, then added a little red wine vineger. A classic, but delicious!

Mine look beautiful and are flowering but I have not hilled them yet. Things have just been happening and I haven't been able to get more dirt to hill them with. I hope it is not too late already.

Congrats on the spinach Kate! We have started tossing it into everything at dinner. We have needed the rain to make up for the drought we had for the past 2 years.

So last year I randomly bought a 4 pack of tomato plants and I had a huge amount of success with them. I had tons of beautiful roma tomatoes all season. Because I am a little bit of a lazy gardener, and I didn't want to mess with saving their seeds, I planted some of the tomatoes in the gound...

That looks like quack grass to me too. That stupid stuff will drive me crazy. You have to pull it up from the rhizomes it puts out underneath the ground. I swear I have dug a foot down and have found quack grass rhizomes. Th only way I found to control it is to pull it up constantly. :(