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    Scarlet Runner Beans or Morning Glories?

    I just added scarlet runners to the seed train if you want some of my dear Sam (my garden mentor's) they are on there psssst if you miss it and just want some of my own personal stash I would love to get you started on the endless road of beauty and taste called the scarlet runner ..well to...
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    Seed train like on BYC?

    I would love the Chantenay red cored carrots please and can offer scarlet runners (Ladyhawke look over here :) ) escarole cilantro (the seed on this particular strain is really better than most for drying and grinding as coriander!) bulb fennel New Zealand spinach rattle snake pole bean...
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    Is there anything that deer won't eat?

    I am so sorry you lost your dogs :( and the picture is great I like the fogginess of it! if you google how to keep deer out of the garden you can find a billion tips online! do we have a thread here just for deer tips I wonder? my husband says just put a trail of their favorite munchies...
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    Is there anything that deer won't eat?

    I never know year to year what the heck they will eat ..and just when I think I have it nailed I find them taking half my cherry tree or something ...I do know they love squash here!!! really love it when it is young if they will even wait for the squash to bloom ..like me they like the blossoms...
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    I need to harvest 7 million calories!

    :welcome I love the title and idea for your thread how funny! I garden to avoid 7million calories!!!! I think the biggest thing with gardening is you can read anything ...follow anything you see others do ..take advice but just keep working at it gardening takes fortitude, practice and...
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    starting seeds

    what kinds of seeds do you want to start?
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    OK its spider mites how do i get rid of them?

    I washed them all well in the shower...used fly paper hung between my plants and kept hitting them with the soap mixture ..then when summer came they went outside and they are gone for two years now? I can not imagine dumping my babies!!! good luck!!!!
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    Square Foot Gardening Pictures?

    Ducks really interesting thanks I just pm'd you the link for the watermark program you can try it for free and then buy it for 20 bucks if you like it let me know if you get it and good luck I think the thing is some folks have so many years of time invested in gardeing cooking ect ..and...
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    Garden Whipping! - Updated: pg21

    Oh Catalina I love to visit your midwestern paradise thanks so much for sharing! you make even the snow (:P) look beautiful!!! (and I am not into snow I have mossy feet)
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    Scarlet Runner Beans or Morning Glories?

    I will always choose scarlet runners because they are just so beautiful ..productive and remind me of a dear friend who "raised" me up to be a gardener .. plus they draw hummingbirds ..I just put bit of fencing around the bottom if they are looking like chicken victims morning glory is so...
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    Weather Where You Are

    Stay warm Hattie I am overwhelmed by your weather this year we are in a swamp and I am depressed and feeling helpless about Haiti that country does not get a break so tragic 4 hurricanes what 2 years ago 4 in 1 season ..now this omg they had all these grassroots projects going on ..mango...
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    Merry Christmas everyone !!!!

    you made your own torrone!!!! :love
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    Merry Christmas everyone !!!!

    OMG I just saw your food!!!! your codfish cakes remind me of back home so beautiful!!! and I am sooooo hungry now!
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    Square Foot Gardening Pictures?

    I will pm you I do not want to overrun Vfem's thread but we got a freebe and then bought it cheapo!!! ..it is really easy to do it just takes a little time to get caught up on all the photos ..now I do it straight away ..it is not 100% but it is a good way to help keep your stuff your stuff...
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    Tomato Leaves~ Are they really poisonous? Read this.......!!

    there is nothing that smells as good as those tomato vines I am really tempted to tast them this year! thanks Hattie!
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    Square Foot Gardening Pictures?

    This is NOT at all personal but many folks do write just like you and want to use their own photos for their own articles or whatever down the road I have been working on watermarking all mine just in case because I have seen them in other peoples pieces online it is nice you would ask first...
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    Does this make sense to you? It doesn't to me

    sometimes my posts look like that ..that is why 90% of them are edited ..... I will be really really tired ..wearlng bifocals and not really reading what I am thinking I should be typing :) looks like someone was really tired!
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    Is food cheaper to grow?

    my husband does virtually no yard work and if you took my hourly wage as a nurse and compared it to the amount of produce alone I would loose ..and in the markets I frequent I can actually buy good fresh food in season that is about as good as anyone can grow ..but really truly I can not do...
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    Is food cheaper to grow?

    Honestly and I really am being honest here growing food is not at all cheaper than buying food for me no matter how I look at it I can seriously find what I want in varios markets for much less than it costs me to grow it here ..especially since I had to import a lot of dirt and build beds...
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    Farmers Markets?

    my husband and grandson are going to try this ..in the summer and I am excited! so please lets keep this going with ideas for how to run a table at a farmers market! I know the subject has come up but there has not be a real thread on the topic anywhere has there? so thank you for starting...
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