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Okay, maybe ths is my 'blondeness' showing through, but I don't quite get the American and Canadian plant hardiness zones. I was reading SilkieChicken's thread about growing watermelons, and I'm wondering if my climate is cooler than hers, how it differs etc... I have grown watermelons, and...

I don't know about in your area, but around here in the cities--they have curbside pickup of lawn and garden waste. They compost it, and you can buy it in large quantities. I have and will be getting some loads for my garden. I have a utilitiy trailer, so I pick it up myself, and a cubic...

Hey Dave--good luck with the garden. I hear that if you polish that black thumb--it will clean up to be green--that takes lotsa work though.... :watering

LOL--Sure, make fun of my typo!!!!! :clap :gig

Do you want to make sauce, stewing tomatoes, salsa? I have always used Roma-- I quite like them for canning. i also freeze these whole, with the peel on. After thawed--just squeeze the fruit out of the skin and you have perfect stewing tomatoes.

Thanks, and sorry to combine your work and play :bouquet

Completely off topic of this thread, but any advice on painting over nicotine stained ceilings and walls? Seems the previous owner like to smoke whiile sitting on his throne. (aka toilet)

This will be my first year growing potatoes, too. i have heard they are easy to grow--I would venture to guess as easily as your yams. You are in a completely different part of the world than where i am from.though--You have three leaves on your corn plants--I have three centimetres of snow...

Never meant any offense by my response, just my sick, cold- induced attempt at humour. Done alot of painting in the last few months. Kudos to making a career out of it. I've finally gotten to the point of being good enough at it to not panic when I have to paint in a carpetted room. Luckily...

And its -9C, and the brakes on my car are shot--dh replaced one last night, and needs to do the other one tonight, so I am vehicle-less, and the furnace hasn't worked all day, and I'm cold sitting here wrapped in a blanket, spending way too much time on the computer, b/c I'm too cold to get up...

Thanks--that probably is what the problem was. Did that make sense? :rainbow-sun

I hear ya on the sneezing.... Funny thing though when I lived up north--no allergies. Just since I moved back down here to smog central. edited for typo...

Well, that post made me smile, .... and wonder just exactly was your old entrepreneurial enterprise?.........:mow, :hu

Freezers work best if they are really full, as opposed to fridges that need air circulation to be more efficient. A really big one is only going to be efficient if you fill itright up to the top. A full- small freezer will be more "power outage" tolerant than an empty- big freezer. and...

Why is it sometimes the smilies work , and sometimes just the word part shows up in my posts? :barnie See this time it worked, but in my last post, it didn't

I must admit that I only LOOK at the catalogues--just to get ideas. I usually buy locally. I have a few tired and trusted family run greenhouses in my area that I can buy from..Anything from vegetable plants and seed, to flower plants and seeds, to nurseries for trees, shrubs etc.I Catalogues...

Congrats, Reinbeau!! We'll try to play nice...:clap

Claritin keeps me clear in the early summer, but was the Dr. giving it to her for seasonal allergies, or for her asthma? Seems, to me she needed more attention to her asthma. My ds takes two inhalers--one for everyday and one for acute episodes. My dd takes singulaire, which is an asthma...

Okay, maybe I just got a little defensive when Pat said she had a problems with self-sufficiency. I am extremely aware that no one person can be totally independent/self sufficient. I was looking at the lifestyle--not the actual definition of the word. And since we have moved here, I know...

The only things I can add are staghorn sumac, common juniper, elderberry, and red osier dogwood. My experience with these were alot farther north--Canadian zone 2a, but they are nice and hardy. All of the plants you mentioned, Pat, grew there also, so I'm assuming these should work . The...