FOR POLE BEANS- Oh, the poles or trellis doesn't need to be that high. They will just wind themselves back down. You would have to have a ladder to pick and you don't want to do that. If you plant in rows then then plan on comfortable reaching height. You will do a lot of reaching and bending.
These were this summer's bush lima beans in the two center rows with the small white blooms.
I sent my husband to the feed store and told him to pick me up some bush beans. I wanted bush grean beans and they gave him bush lima beans. (Learned something on that one) Soooo, I have no idea what...
Wow...I am sold!!! That is so impressive! Exellent photos for examples, thanks. And I really like the use of newspapers for pots. I noticed beav had a post on the French gardens and in one of the pictures they had used tolet paper rolls for starter pots! (Dang French, great gardens...
Every year our local bank provides its customers with a free calender. Oh, not just any calender, but one that provides on the first page an "explanation as to how you can make practical use of the signs of the zodiac as shown on your American Almanic calender". The calender provides an image...
Gardening and chickens have always been in my past (although life caused me to take a break from both.) But just recently BYC brought me to TheEasyGarden and I they ALL go hand in hand. Now, if I only had a cow!!
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Goodness! That growth rate almost sounds like kudzu!!
Online....okay, just wanted to make sure they haven't made it to Wal-Mart garden section before we get our catalog!!
Watching for your pics.....
No way!! I've never tried that one but now I'm interested. I have already been thinking about my early spring garden and garden peas are #1 on my list, irish potatoes #2!! Where did you get your seeds?
It's been years since I helped my grandmother with the garden peas ("english peas" she...
Well, I'll give you a little advice....find someone around you who will share in their plants. There are always little ones spouting up under the mother plant during the spring and summer. I traded squash for some plants..hehe. Thats how I got mine.
Otherwise I would support my local...
Sooo easy!!! A drought resistant crop that you plant, harvest, and God takes care of the rest.
Look on the first pic right above my father-in-law. That is milo. It is planted like corn and is identical as corn when it sprouts. (We had two different types of corn and you could not tell the...
Every once and a while I prepare a dish with fresh ginger root. I run to Wal-mart, pick up my root which is far more than I need. So I put the extra that is not used into the fridge, it's forgotten about and the next time I see it it has become a dried, shriveled up, hardly identifiable mass...
Bush Cherries
The Nanking cherry (Prunus tomentosa) is one of the most popular bush cherries, growing to a mature height of 10 feet. This deciduous shrub bears white to pinkish flowers early in the spring. The half-inch diameter, tart, red fruit are similar to sour pie cherries and make...
I can be found in Jemison, Alabama. That is right in the center of the state just a stones throw from I-65. There is alot of agriculture around us, well, my husband and I grew up working peach fields, pea patches, okra rows with NO ends, etc. etc. and this is what was expected... By the time...
Thats some more pomegranites- that is great!!!! Fresh pomegranites have always been one of my favorite fresh fruits. And can you believe the price of the fresh juice in the stores!! Alot of older people around where I live have pomegranite trees and are always so good about sharing in their...