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Just because I took pics tonight of srawbale salad mix, potatoes, tomatoes, cabbage and broccoli!

Been researching the benefits, do any of you use this product? Seems to good to be true based on the Amazon reviews: http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=cold+pressed+neem+oil&tag=mh0b-20&index=aps&hvadid=3522435317&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=t&ref=pd_sl_9hohg5b3tf_e

I don't have photo's down yet!

Azaleas, Strawbale lettuce mix, potatoes, tomatoes and brassicas: I am now an official believer in the benefit of the wall of water, these early girls were planted 3 weeks before my last frost date of April 15! All survived today's storms!

Still can't figure out why I double post pics!

Planted 24 tomatoes, 7 peppers, and one eggplant, plants in 41/2" pots from the tasteful garden in Alabama. Also, one dwarf tomato, Purple Rosella in a pot drilled holes with portable drill and threw in a handful of worm castings, took a shower and had to use a fingernail brush! Next week...

Thanks Cat, I don't till and use a heavy mulch of wheat straw and grass clippings and leaves. After just one year of this I can bury my trowel to the hilt and usually kill an earthworm when I put in a plant in one section of the garden. The largest portion I just started last spring so I...

Anyone using this? In research on the web I found them to be pretty expensive compared to other organic fertilizers and I don't have room to grow my own. One website was pretty good in explaining the benefits and he happened to be from SC, called him and he was about 15 minutes from my office...

Sorry for the double pic, I deleted it, but it didn't take

No till since spring of 2014, and late last summer I expanded one area of the garden by 4-5 feet with cardboard first, then straw and grass clippings and did the same late this winter on another 4-5 feet. I can stick a trowel in to the hilt very easily right now. The proof will be this years...

Doing things a little different this year, organic and no till with heavy mulch, top layer of mulch is wheat straw from lowes covering whatever leaves and grass clippings I could come up with. Took out a Bradford pear and trimmed back overhang limbs from neighbors tree to get more sun. Have...

According to the map SC has both varieties, at any rate I have not had problems with them, maybe because I live in the suburbs? We do have chipmunks and rabbits, but they have never bothered my potatoes. Also, several neighborhood cats running around might help. Crossing my fingers voles don't...

I had to google voles to see what they were! I have heard you guys talking about them, but never thought to look them up. I don't think we have them here, unless they are the same as our field mice. Planted potatoes in the dirt last year, and did not have a very good crop so trying something...

Lettuce, spinach, broccoli, and cabbage were plants, but I did direct seed a lettuce mix Sunday, it's already sprouting. Potting soil on top of Strawbale to keep it away from a pesky rabbit!

Took the afternoon of today and planted broccoli, potatoes, lettuce, spinach, cabbage and some kale seeds. I sheet mulch organically and no till. So, I pulled back the mulch and put the seed potatoes on the ground, added some vermicompost and straw. Will let you know how it turns out!

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So, I have a problem with neighborhood rabbits and Broccoli, lettuce for sure. Not sure if they like arugula, kale, Swiss chard and spinach, here is my solution. I'll plant lettuce in the straw bales later, hope they can't climb!

Here's a tip on the potatoes, buy organic (no anti sprouting treatment) from Fresh Market or Whole Foods put them in a box over a heat vent. In a couple of weeks after they sprout, move them to a cool place(mine are in the garage) and when they turn a greenish tint they are ready to plant. Mine...

What is this pest? Should I eat it immediately or let it cure?

The panels work great! When I realized the butternut and acorn squash were going to take over the garden I dropped by tractor supply, they had them and their stock boys delivered them for $25. I have squash, cukes and pole beans on mine, going to use them for tomatoes next year.