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Look on the bright side. The tender tips are delicious in a salad. Italians plant them in their garden but are careful to keep them sheared back to encourage good tip growth. That way they don't get away and take over the garden.

One last word about amaranth seed. It can be popped into a sort of miniature popcorn.

Let some of it go to seed. Amaranth seed is very nutritious and easy to thresh out. Plenty of ways to use it on the web. It will get to 5 or 6 feet high if you let it mature.

Pickleworms here in San Diego show up mostly in green tomatoes.

I live in a Mexican neighborhood. The neighbors are delighted to take any excess (including zuchini) off my hands.

Growers fumigate the soil but that is impractical and dangerous in the home garden. About all you can do is plant mosaic resistant tomatoes and potatoes but none that I know of are completely immune.

Tobacco mosaic is a very persistent virus, Hard to get out of garden soil. Mustard seems immune to it and can actually help other plants withstand it when used as a companion plant.

Could be a mineral deficiency in the soil but it's more likely tobacco mosaic which can effect quite a few unrelated plants.

i get knotweed but I don't consider it a weed. It makes good rabbit fodder. If your soil isn't hard it pulls right up. Usually has only one taproot.

when being milked by hand cows have a habit of swinging their tails. when the tail is full of burdocks it can knock you right off the milking stool.:hide

When I was a kid my grandfather had a farm with a lot of burdock on it. We kids used to gather the burrs and stick them to one another using them sort of like Leggo blocks.

Peeled (a stiff brush will do the job) It is then cut into thin strips 3 or 4 inches long sort of like match sticks and marinated overnight in soy sauce. A light touch of rice vinegar can be added if you wish but go easy on that. After the marinading it is cooked over low heat with only enough...

Burdock root is commonly used as a vegetable in Japan. I've eaten it when I was there. The taste is good but its kind of fibrous. Good to keep things moving if you know what I mean. ;)

Laying down layers of cardboard to hold down evaporation. I'll try cutting holes and planting there and see how that works out. They predict another drought year for this part of the country.

Have a good one. Passed my 84th a few days ago. Working on 85 now.

Don't forget it's from The Onion but I had a laugh at it. http://www.theonion.com/article/full-summer-tending-backyard-garden-produces-singl-51227

Vegans have to pay attention to everything in their diet if they want to stay healthy. Omnivores just eat what's set in front of us and usually do OK.

Milky spore is only good on Japanese beetle grubs. Thank God we don't have them in this area but we're loaded with green June bug grubs.

Clearing a mess of weeds right now. After those drought years I couldn't use the water in good conscience so I just let it run wild. Should be able to have at least a few tomatoes and peppers this year.

Milky spore won't work on those huge june bug grubs. Preditory nematodes give some control.