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As long as you keep the seeds cool and dry they should keep successfully for up to five years (they've just grown seeds they found in the desert that may have been 2000 years old). I take my seeds after planting and put them in a ziploc bag and store them away. Some people put them in the...

Since the borers are eggs laid by flying adults, this is not a soil borne predator so planting in pots isn't going to make any difference. The only remedy I can think of would be to cover the plants to protect them from the flying adults but then you won't get pollination.....I know there are...

On my gardening line we have a guy who wraps his fruit trees with those old fashioned Christmas tree lights that actually get hot to the touch. They generate just enough heat that he doesn't have to worry about frost and he plugs them in whenever it's getting cold.

I LOVE my little mantis! I can start it and work with it by myself so I don't have to be all girlie and call the husband to help me. But we have about an acre in garden so we need the big behemoth tiller at least in the spring.

I'm going to start breeding some chickens and I'm hoping for some show quality birds. We'll let the kids start showing for 4-H and see how that goes to start with. Today is warm and it makes me want to plant. Yesterday it was nearly 70 in January, in Colorado.....just makes you want to warm up...

We have one of those little mantis tillers which I use when the husband isn't around to get some weeding done and prepare the odd bed or two. We use a BIG tiller for getting the garden ready and working in compost. I mulch for weed control too but I do that because my soil is in pretty crappy...

I'm kinda depressed. There's a lady who wants to buy my horse. Now I know he'll be better off with her because he'll have a job finally and it's honestly beginning to look like I'll never ride again but I raised him from a baby and I'll miss him. But in this economy I just can't afford a 2000...

Oh, I had most of my seed ordering done by last fall. I've been thinking about some pole beans though so I may have to put in one last order.

If pain is a problem don't start out with too big of a garden. Start small and see what you can handle. MULCH! Keep your plants thinned and mulch around them to minimize weeding. You might want to look into some no-till methods which will make your life even easier.

I live north of you on the Palmer Divide in Colorado. We're at 6800 feet here so it's technically high desert. I've spent the last five years amending this soil with compost and manure and I think I've finally got dirt that might grow something. If you can afford to dump a few tons of compost...

We used to have dwarf trees and they were very nice. We only had plums but they were just as tasty as anything you'd get on a big tree. I've heard a lot of bad reviews on the fruit cocktail trees. Seems like you still have to have some pollinators around because not all the fruits self...

We use horse manure. We used to put it right on the garden area and let it age over winter and then work it in in the spring. WEEDS!!!! Now we compost it first, which helps a little but the best thing to do is to lay it out on the garden and let the chickens at it. They pick through it...

I like to shop online or by catalog. My favorite seed company Pinetree seeds but I get a lot of my heirloom tomatoes from tomato fest and Baker seeds.

Husband didn't remember exactly what mil plastic we used, he thinks it's 7 or 8 but he got it from a greenhouse supply company so the plastic is "special" and is made to filter sunlight, stay warmer, and stretch a little....I don't know what all. The floor is just dirt and compost and chicken...

I ambled on over from BYC. My gardening and chicken raising sort of go hand in hand. My chickens are currently digging up and fertilizing my greenhouse, later they'll be allowed in the greenhouse to clean out the bugs while we use their coop messes in our compost pile. We even put their egg...

Uhhhh, this year was my experiment in going vertical with tomatoes and peppers. I was not too impressed with the tomatoes I got from my bucket experiment but what a fantastic crop of peppers I got!!! I think from now on I'll be growing my tomatoes in the ground in the greenhouse and all my...

Why thank you! We like it. With the hurricane force winds we get up here (I'm at 6800 feet) this greenhouse has been a life saver.

We built our own greenhouse (kinda sorta). A guy who ran a commercial set up was going out of business so we bought the steel hoops which we drove into the ground and then covered with a plastic cover from one of those greenhouse supply places. Husband built wooden frames for the ends for...

Howdy Neighbors!!! I'm out here in Kiowa. When we first moved here I was so upset about this soil-who can grow anything in this stuff (I'm from Iowa where the land is gardening heaven)? Anyway, we've patiently added and amended the soil year after year and we bought a greenhouse to mitigate...

Just as an aside, I hear that chickens like Borage.....on the other hand, I haven't heard of a lot of things that chickens DON'T like.