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It's very hard to see people's emotions on the internet, so I'm going to assume you are not trying to be mean here. I do view everyone here on this website as friends.

Because I have a grow tent, starting after the new year didn't properly represent my "gardening" calendar. For me, the new year starts with the first seed instead.

Going back to this @flowerbug I've had a chance to look into this, and I think you may be on to something. I think we humans tend towards extremes. We learn that 'organic material' is what we need and that rocks in the soil block root growth or something, and we go crazy trying to eradicate...

More little tomatoes are up! I'm planning to go through my seeds today and see if I have anything else I want to plant. It's so exciting.

I feel uncomfortable sitting in a chair for a long time. The most I can do is 30 minutes to an hour before I have to get up and move around. As far as the off-season---I have two kids. :3 There is no off season! Soccer is just around the corner, there's a whole house to be cleaned, taken apart...

I have such a wonderful neighborhood! I followed the advice of my neighbor and plucked a sucker off my Tiny Tomatoes and got it set in a pot. If it grows too big, he says to just take a new cutting and start again until it's time for it to go out. He also showed me his pineapple plants, gave me...

The moon beam grape tomatoes were up this morning! I only planted them Sunday. :o That's some fast germination!

I want to be a grandkid. You guys have all the fun!!

It may well be the area. We've gotten some hot, sunny days, but mostly it's pretty dismal. My husband was able to grow his Carolina Reapers (from a healthy sized purchased plant) to enormous trees by keeping them in my grow tent. I wonder if I could make regional peppers a breeding project.

Today's gardening project was getting the hydroponics kit my mother in law gave me going. You fill it with water and plant food, insert pre seeded sponges, and the little machine does everything else. Fascinating!

That's a wonderful idea. I think I may try it.

Thank you for the tips! I could probably be more familiar with soil types. what can I do to make my soil more mineral based? Right now I imagine it's pretty heavy in organic materials, thanks to the abundance of chicken compost, vegetable compost, and fallen leaves I have. This year I'm growing...

Matt's Wild Cherry Tomato These are the sweetest, the smallest, the most wildly successful tomato I've ever had. I've got seeds planted now. It didn't mind anything from hail and frost to thunderstorms. It survived raccoons tromping through it and squirrels...

April or May. I have not yet figured out what I am doing wrong, but they grow so slowly. A pepper plant might only be 6" tall by the time they get set out. I've tried different types of potting soil, watering with fertilized water, not using any fertilizer at all, potting up, not potting...

With the last tomatoes fading away in the surviving garden beds, it's time to start thinking of next years garden. My husband has gotten super excited for this years garden. He grew absolutely huge Carolina Reapers in my greenhouse. We cleaned and sanitized it together. (He mopped my greenhouse...

Photos from the raised garden beds. A few tomatoes and the tea garden are still alive and doing well. My daughter delighted in some tiny tomatoes I grew. She promptly made a salad for her lunch at school with them.

I'm sorry, I don't know why I didn't see this. We also replaced ours with concrete board. It's all finished except for some trim paint now. It failed in part due to age, and in part because--it wasn't really siding? It was essentially just plywood made to look like siding, with no weather...

Welcome! I had to look up Grapeview, as I wasn't familiar with it. It looks like it's well past Olympia somewhere. I'm closer to Tacoma in my neck of the woods. The growing is good, but powdery mildew is a problem.

I admit, I was picturing an actual boat until you described skinning it.

Last year, Mrs. Peanut brought her 4 teen babies down and made me stand there while she instructed them on The Art of Begging From Humans. You could tell she was instructing them because she'd beg exaggeratedly, then turn and look at them, then they'd all look at her and then me.