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I just planted 9 raspberry roots that a friend gave me. They are pretty hardy as they sat in a bucket of water for at least a month before they found their way into the soil. 6 of them now have new leaves. In my area, zone 3 to 4, many people have a thornless variety that do extremely well. In...

Well, the three yarrow I purchased from a nursery, a giant variety, sent many babies out into the world and they are coming up everywhere. It seems that they more productive than the wild ones in my area. Its been a pretty good deal since I only paid one dollar for each pot! Next year I will...

When I see yarrow growing in the wild it is usually white or yellow. I have purchsed brilliant red yarrow, or pink but after a year or two it turns white. Why is this happening? Is there something to add to the soil to keep its color? thanks

regarding beds this is how I did mine this year and it worked great. I actually used very little soil. I used the Lasagna gardening method that I learned mostly about on Youtube.. In this method you essentially build your own soil.. so in doing this you really don't need to have it tested...

great ideas. thanks It was too late to plant beans as we were already under snow. I purchased a huge bag of blood meal at a garage sale for 2 dollars and wondered what I would use it for. Now I know why! Our soil is alkaline for sure and next to no humus. for the urea, Im trying to train my...

well I after I havested my garden and started to construct my new layers for the lasagna bed I opened by bokoshi trash pail that had been sitting since I last put a bucket load in it about 3 weeks ago. I know it should sit for a month at least but a freeze was headin my way and I needed to get...

If you do Bokoshi composting method with live microorganisms you can put your dog poo in there. You can also put in meat scraps and bones. I do the Bokoshi method and have put bones and meat scraps in but not dog poo. We have 8 acres and I ain't going looking for it! Anyway, this is a...

Guess I will be adding nitrogen.. I am up north at least 42 degrees and high altitutued also,, 6500 ft zone 3 to 4. I did put my onions in storage but will use them as quickly as I can.. We get long days here in the summer but a short growing season. Only the frost took the greens down...

Glad you told me that dragon laurel. I have a couple of packs of dried milk that have to be 15 years old I almost threw away... now I have a use for it. :lol:

Im in a zone 3 to 4. I did cover them with dry leaves.. I only have about 5 inches of soil at the bottom of this bed.. the bottom of my beds are covered with 1/2 wire mesh to keep the volls out... Probably next year I will dig them up, refill my bed and plant them back in... since it is a...

Can purchased mason bee cylinders fit into your houses? I don't know if we have mason bees around here naturally. I was thinking of trying some and placing the box inside the sunroom and having their entrance to the outside so they wont freeze... we get to 20 below here often in the winter...

I planted about 84 sets of onions this year...yellow, purchased at a local feed and gardening store so I assumed they were onions for developed for our neck of the woods. Almost all went into raised beds composed mostly all of the same organic matter. Some onions did really much better than...

We did a trail run of corn, because we planted too late we knew things would not produce but we just wanted to see what would happen.. I felt like things were not green enough... so I started thinking the soil needed more ntirogen... We are planning a pretty big corn patch next year and...

Thanks so much. That clarifies a lot. Since I do lasagna gardening and put in several layers of dicidious tree leaves I may not be needing magnesium for the beds but where I plant just out in the field I may. Is magnesium something that corn plants may like? potatoes? yes, potatoes are...

I found a big bag of magnesium sulfate on sale a while back and still haven't used it... essentially its the same as epsom salts. How would you use this in the garden? should I just sprinkle some into the lasagna layers I am making now, make a water of it to water plants with. What would you...

Well, I have my bokashi trash can now full. Soon I will empy in my lasagna garden bed to let it do its thing over the winter.... I probably should have posted this after I dumped the can cause I am cluelessas to what is in there but I wanted to bump the tread. Regarding the quesiton about...

thanks, of course that makes perfect sense.

I've been working on putting my beds to sleep for the winter... building them up with mulch etc. to the top One bed has strawberry plants in them. When I planted them the bed was full to the brim, with mulch and planting mix, up 18 inches, but over the summer it has composted and shrunk down to...

Thank You so much for helping. It seems someone here is helping my friend and sending her bindweed. Now here is the information on using bindweed for cancer. BINDWEED (AN ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITOR) Examples of Patient Reports From The Center The RECNAC team (CANCER spelled backwards) is...

I forgot that I had this thread here! since last posting I continue with bokashi. Since all my beds were planted I ran into the problem of where to bury my bokoshi when it was ready. Then after a search I came across the idea of getting a black plastic trash can and cutting out the bottom...