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Like the others said, you need to thin your plants. Most of those will probably do best to one per pot, depending on the size of the pot. The squash, what kind? There are bush type and vine type. They get big, I grow both types. In a really big pot you could probably do one bush type or maybe...

I do try and save a few of the smaller sunflower heads for my parrot, she loves to chew them up. But no chickens here, otherwise I would be saving more for them. Though thinking about it now the rats would love them too. I'll have to try to save a few for them. Don't know why I didn't think of...

Very cute little GCC you have there. I have one too, a pineapple. My avatar pic is her. I had some of those oats pop up from oats I bought from the pet store for her. She loves the oats, I wait for them to dry out then give her a bunch of them clipped to her cage for her to demolish. She loves...

I always let the wild birds have the seeds, the goldfinches love sunflower seeds.

Well, I guess I could get the grill going good and hot and brew it outside. Sounds like a good excuse to get a fire pit in the backyard.

Would this work on japenese beetles too? Last year they attacked my new cherry tree. It sounds like it would repel everything.

I've grown pineapples before, but not mangos. Is the center of the pineapple soft and rotting? It looks that way. My pineapples always grew like crazy with new leaves coming out of the center. But they are easy to start, I've even gotten the seeds to sprout once. If yours is rotting I would...

Yup, nasty little beetles that love asparagus. :he I've read that site @Carol Dee but it doesn't say anything about using BT to kill the ugly little pillars. I checked other sites and some people say to use BT but I didn't see anything about anyone actually using it and if it worked. I guess...

Looking at my asparagus today and I see some little wormy caterpillar things munching away. Then I see more and some eggs and one adult asparagus beetle. I started hand picking them but I can't reach all the asparagus, it's really tall and I'm kinda short. I picked many of them but I was...

I've always hated those shaped bushes. They look so fake and unnatural. :sick Maybe they have their place, but it's nowhere I want to be.

Odd, I tried vinegar the other day to kill some weeds in rocks and it worked great. The next day they were all crispy. Now, these were all small plants, I don't know if it works on older, bigger plants.

The squirrels love to pull leaves and flower petals and leave them laying around. I've found that as long as I feed them they leave my gardens alone. Well, mostly alone, they do plant lots of black walnuts and oak trees. If I don't feed them, or forget to put something out they start digging and...

I used a can for powered sugar and would sprinkle the cornstarch on, it looks like an over sized salt shaker. I would kinda throw the cornstarch up onto the lower sides of the leaves. I too had tried hand picking them, I couldn't find them all they blend too well. Plus bending down irritates my...

Do you mean the caterpillars from the cabbage white? I have had them decimate my garden in the past. I use BT for them and didn't have any more problems. It works great. This may sound odd but I've also used corn starch. I don't remember where I read about that but it does work very well. The...

I would do it. I've never had a problem with other plants growing around them.

I've heard this before, but I've never had a problem with other plants growing around sunflowers. I've even had some in my veggie garden without any problems. Maybe it's only a problem if you have a lot of sunflowers? I like to tuck sunflowers all over my gardens, in between other plants...

I have sunflowers popping up all over. Some of them are in bad spots so I move them to other areas. Just make sure to water well for a few days. Sometimes they will start to wilt, but a good watering should bring them right back. I have one sunflower growing out of a bale of straw that I have...

The leaves aren't sharp, they have oxalic acid in them. Both the leaves and the tubers. Taro has these too, they have to been cooked before being eaten.

I've eaten potatoes that grew in my compost. Every year some sprout out, right now there are four plants that popped up. They taste like potatoes. They have never had any off flavor to them. :hu

A few of my mints didn't make it through this winter, I keep them all in pots on the patio. Mints I have or had, see if I can remember them all. Pineapple, peppermint, spearmint, sweet, banana, apple, ginger, orange, catnip and chocolate. It's not mint, but smells so sweet is pineapple sage. It...