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I tried that once. These dogs are quite able to tear down any fencing shorter than 6' with concrete postholes.

*dies of jealousy* Ours won't be up for at least another week. And mine rarely looks near that nice, due to certain very exuberant dogs that love to romp in the orchard.

I can't pick one. By the time my favorite comes into season, I eat so much of it that three weeks later I'm ready to barf. I love tomatoes, but by September I don't want to see another darn tomato for months, I'm that tired of em. Just now I'm eagerly waiting on asparagus. I saw a little bitty...

What kind of roses? There are many that are hardy to zone 5, but also many that are not. The garden centers, regardless of their location, often seem to carry the type that are normally found in florists' shops, as opposed to the kind that laugh at April snowstorms. It is possible to prepare...

I wouldn't dig them up, it would damage the original tree, but you could cut them off, dip one end in rooting hormone and start the cuttings.

Eh...I've been in R&D myself for longer than I care to remember (let's just say it's given me grey hairs and leave it at that ;) ) and in my experience, it's all in who you know. Smaller startups can collaborate or form partnerships, get SBIR grants that the bigger companies don't qualify for...

Big plants? Little plants? I like hellebores, myself. For climbing things, climbing hydrangeas, especially in oakleaf, are my very favorites. They will tolerate northern walls, although they might not bloom as nice the leaves are very pretty and you can get ones that change to lovely colors in...

I'm going to go with "eliminating competition." Because Coke must do what is best for Coke's bottom line, they will test their products against focus groups who already have a preference for Coke and sugary drinks. When the focus groups raised on soda and Sugar Frosted Frooty Bombs select sugary...

Oh! I see. Normally I would cut off any sprouts from the rootstock, as they take energy away from the tree--similar to what you experienced with the quince rootstock outgrowing the pear graft. It's very normal for rootstocks to be more vigorous and hardy than what's grafted onto them; that's the...

Yeah, don't buy from Raintree. They messed up my rootstock order most annoyingly. Peaceful Valley sometimes has them, but not at this exact moment; Adams County Nursery, ditto--they get them in winter if you want to check back in November/December-ish. Burnt Ridge Nursery has a few, not a great...

Too many leaves, and leaves aren't pointy enough for either hickory or walnut. I'm thinking locust, actually. Does it get flowers in late spring?

+1 It really is cheaper to make from scratch, and not significantly more kitchen time...IF you have kitchen space and utensils to make it easy and IF you know how to cook from scratch. It's much much MUCH cheaper and easier to throw a bag of lentils, a big can of tomatoes, chili powder, garlic...

Nice! I have the laundry wringer she is demonstrating in that video, it works pretty well. I do wonder what their water usage is. Pasadena doesn't get much rainfall.

Well, by managing the manure in digestion tanks and using the methane as an energy source (which some smaller operations are now doing) you can remediate some of the manure problem in CAFOs, but the capital equipment investments required to deal with the amount in a commercial CAFO would be high...

Beekissed: It has to do with the soil microbes. Healthy topsoil has several hundred identified (i.e. many more unidentified and cataloged, probably) species of bacteria. Some of these convert urea and ammonia from animal waste into nitrites, some convert it to nitrates through their normal...

This is a rhetorical question, right? Pros: Plenty of healthy exercise, lotsa fresh food (Fastnacht Day wasn't that long ago, and I miss ring bologna & shoofly pie), easy to decide what you're wearing in the morning, if you like animals you'll have fun working with them, nice warm quilts, learn...

YES. Especially those of us whose aunties, uncles and cousins happen to be a mix of Old Order Amish, Beachy, Mennonite and Brethren. FYI, it's sort of like lumping Catholics, Russian Orthodox, Lutherans, Episcopalians and Unitarian Universalists all under the heading of "Christians"...

They grow the same as regular, but as lesa said, not keepers. They make amazing potato salads though, much better than regular potatoes.

From the article: My goodness, here I thought I was the only one who really "got" this! At least there's one other soul. I grew up in Amish country in PA. My cousins, aunties, uncles are Old Order Mennonite and Amish. I picked peas, greenbeans, pulled carrots and horseradish, picked fruit on...

Another vote for the fence. You could try talking to the parents, but sometimes that does more harm than good, if the parents feel (as they so often do in these modern times) that the sun shines out of Junior's behind. Used to have a neighbor whose toddler liked to come in our yard to pick...