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Hawaii usually lets seeds in and things with no soil such as cuttings. If it's got roots, they have to be in a soil-less medium of some sort. I get trees mailed with some sort of odd stuff around their roots and they survive the experience. They aren't happy, but they survive. Maybe the...

Are those hog panels being used as a trellis for the veggies? Seems like a trellis you'd only have to get once as well as a trellis that would keep goats out of the garden?

Edmund's Roses has the Zepherin Drouhin, however, they won't ship to Alaska, Hawaii or Idaho. What's with Idaho? Why can't they get roses? AND, they don't even mention Guam, Puerto Rico, American Samoa or the rest of the non-continental territories. It sucks to try to get things shipped to...

Thanks, R2elk! The High Country Roses has the Zepherine Drouhin rose and for $17.95 it's at a good price, too! However, they don't mention anything about shipping to Hawaii, just that they don't ship to Canada or overseas. Is Hawaii 'overseas'? I sent them an email asking. Heirloom Roses...

Does anyone have a favorite online place to get roses? One that will ship to Hawaii? They'd have to either be 'bare root' or planted in some sort of sterile planting medium. I'm trying to find a "Zephirine Drouhin" rose since it's scented, thornless and climbing. Is it too cold on the...

Well, just a bit of not-snow to hopefully warm up your day? The rain has stopped for a few days so now the grass is growing like crazy. I need to deploy the sheep into more areas so we won't have to mow as much. They'd much rather eat the grass than we'd like to mow it. Although they...

The raised bed gardens here are built of three layers of "concrete masonry units" aka "CMU"s. There's rebar or bits of old pipe or cut off bits of metal fence stuck in the holes to keep them stacked with dirt in the holes as well. Then lined with weed mat, soil sifted in, bunny manure, oyster...

You can also take a bit of muslin or gauze and put that over the jar and screw on a regular jar ring or a rubber band to hold it in place. The metal ring will rust after awhile, although I suppose if it were waxed, it would last a bit longer before rusting. The screen/muslin/gauze is just to...

Why did you blow green food coloring all over the kitchen ceiling? Was it the start of a mural? Since a lot of seed is saved from the previous crops, it's about $20 - $30 per year spent on new varieties of seed. However, this year I'm looking for a Zepherine Drouhin rose bush (thornless...

I always liked reading the Richter's catalog just because there was so many herbs in it. Are they scaling back or going out of business?

The sheep are still wet but the garden is sprouting so it's not all bad.

We sprout mostly alfalfa with sometimes a bit of radish as well. After the sprouts are as big as we want them, then when they're rinsed off a lot of the seed husks will float to the top and then they can be poured out with the rinse water. Some of the seed husks float, so those are floated...

Zone 11B, avocados from seed will start to produce in about four or five years. Probably because they don't take winters off but grow all the time. We try not to let them sprout, though, or we'd be covered in avocados. Not quite sure what variety these are. They're very tasty and creamy...

There was several inches of rain in the sheep's food dish this morning so it must have poured last night although I slept through it. Back to blue sky and fluffy clouds, though, today so the sheep will hopefully dry out. The rain is okay, though, the garden got planted three days ago and rain...

That's a nice seed site, AMKuska! They don't have the bean variety I've been looking for, but they do have some other interesting ones that don't show up on other websites.

The only fertilizer we get for our gardens comes from these bunnies. They're English angora so extra fuzzy and they provide fiber to make insanely soft and fuzzy angora yarn. It works really well. We give a lot of the garden trimmings to the bunnies and they speed process it into 'bunny...

They're not exactly from the garden since the avocado tree is by the workshop, but it's been windy and they're dropping everywhere. Some of them are up to two pounds and they make a really loud noise when they hit the workshop roof. Really creamy and tasty, even though they try to fall on our...

Baker Creek shut down last year, too. I'd just wanted to look up the growing time for some corn I'd gotten from them and the whole site was down. Hmpf! There's a bunch of smaller oddball sites out there, so I ended up getting seeds from some different places than usual...

I was visiting a friend in Napa and there was a store near there that did nothing but sell beans. Rancho Gordo is the name of the place and all they sell is beans. Amazing, I'd figured it was one of those 'only in California' sorta things. I bought a few bags of beans and ate some and planted...

If you know anyone who has rabbits or other livestock, mulberry is a very nutritious forage for many critters. We grow is especially for the bunnies, although we don't feed them the berries, they just get the leaves and branches. There may be someone nearby who would possibly swap mulberry...