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Belated Happy Birthday! That jam looks awesome.

Oh wow. For me, in a cooler climate, that's nearly pornographic. You've done awesome this summer.

Natalie- You go girl! BTW I read A Country Year as per your recommendation and LOVED it. :)

August 12th and not a single red tomato. They are all green and hard a a rock. DH said it was a good thing we didn't buy a summer pass to the pool this year, we would have wasted our money. It's only been warm enough to go a handful of days. Yesterday I spaded up a row for planting some...

Any of the Rodale Encyclopedia's of Organic Gardening are decent. They have several editions. You need not buy the newest one to get good info. Don't feel bad about a disastrous gardening year. I've been gardening for a long time and still have some monumental failures from time to time...

I agree with patandchickens, tomatoes need nighttime temperatures to be consistently above 55F to set fruit. You can spray them with an artificial hormone (can't remember it's brand-name) that will make them set fruit at low temps. Some varieties also have a little lower cold tolerance than...

Yes you can plant them. I plant them in the fall and they come up in the early spring, however we don't have very cold winters. If your ground freezes hard over winter I would wait until spring to plant them.

Well I can tell you the date for the first four. February 29th.

Are you fermenting them or just canning them in vinegar brine? If you ferment first, add a grape or oak leaf to the bottom of the crock. It keeps them crisp. I don't know if it would work for plain old canning. I would try a few both ways and report back, but the @#$*&% slugs ate my...

All you can do is try it. The worst that can happen is it will taste bad. If you have a lot, you could try them a couple times a week as they mature.

DH heard him speak last spring and said it was really good. I got to stay home with a barfing 6 yr old. Lucky ME!

Not sure how large of an area you've got, but if you can lay some chicken wire between the dirt and the mulch it would discourage cats. They need to scratch around when they ....um, you know. The chicken wire makes that pretty tough.

Okay, my curiosity got the best of me. A little online research tells me that there are two types of radicchio, forcing and non-forcing types. THe non-forcing types form a head under "normal growing conditions" (whatever that means) but are much more likely to form a head in cool fall weather...

I tried it with basil and it was slime city when it thawed. I very well may have done it completely wrong. I can do very basic food preservation but that's about it. I've had MUCH better luck with freezing pesto in ice cube trays. I just add a couple drops of lemon juice to keep the basil...

It looks like some red chicory or red dandelion I've seen for sale at the farmers market. Of course when you Google images of "red chicory" you get raddicchio as well as some "red dandelion chicory" that looks a heck of a lot like what you've got. THe whole chicory/endive/raddicchio...

Where did you get your seeds? Cross pollination wouldn't be a problem until the next generation, presuming you had seed from a reliable source. As for the sugar snaps not filling out, I would guess lack of pollination altogether, or a problem with the seeds.

Hi, I'm just outside of Portland. :frow

Very beautiful! I did a double-take when I saw the hummingbird sitting on the fence. How rare is that?

The one in the back looks like some kind of amaranth. The venation in the leaves is a different pattern from the sunflower. Also the sunflower has alternate leaves and your other plant has opposite. If it is some kind of amaranth, PULL IT BEFORE IT GOES TO SEED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The...

Yeaaaa! Of course I'm jealous, we're about a month away from tomatoes here in Oregon.