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Luckily my heap is only a short distance from the garden I have mostly perennials in the beds around the main garden. dayliles irises sedum columbine several types of daisies peonies poppies lupine hardy mums I like to keep flowers around to attract pollinators to my veggies Here are the...

I just emptied my compost heap into the garden and are preparing to till it in. Thought you would like to see some pics. My best compost by far was this year. Heres the bin all emptied out. And spread out over my garden.

I grew both Red Pontiac and Kennebec here using the trench method, and they did very well. We had fres\h potatoes up til Christmas and still have several quarts of canned ones left. I dont believe potatoes can get overripe, once the plants goes by they just lie dormant waiting to sprout again...

I plant bush beans here in SE Mass and they do very well ( as long as the woodchucks don't get to them). We are able to get 2 crops in per season in the same spot. Each crop gives us 1 large harvest and a second smaller a week or so later. Plenty of beans for my family.

I grow tomatoes here in Mass. My chickens are getting fat off these things! Slow newsday at the station I guess.

Never trust a gardener with clean hands.

It looks like a small black ball about the size of a pea, and the plant loses al its leaves except for a few new ones at the bottom. It's really irritating. I tried spraying with an all purpose fungicide/ Insecticide , but no luck with that.

I have several different kinds of lilies, all of them have lost most of their leaves after a black ball formed where the leaf attaches to the stem. I still got some blooms but you can tell the plants are stressed. Any help or ideas would be great. Thanks, Kevin

Thanks Pam. No dog here so i'll have to try something else. Please thank your son for his service to us!

So far I am having my best year yet. Everything is doing very well. Apparently all the lush greenery in my yard has attracted a visitor. For the last week or two everything I've planted has been dug up. Pretty sure it's a skunk or maybe squirrels ( have not seen the culprit) I'd like to hear...

This would also be alot easier to weed and should stay quite a bit drier if you have issues with dampness

I have also seen folks use old tires to grow their spuds in, just start out with one when planting. add straw inside when the plants are tall enough. then add tires and straw as they grow. At harvest time remove the tires and you should have a nice pile of taters. No soil to erode and would take...

I didn't think of them flooding. The soil in my area is very sandy and drains quickly. There might be a problem with a trench in places that drain slower.

I usually plant my spuds in a trench about a foot deep. As they grow you can pull soil in from the sides, this keeps them pretty well covered. Also helps keep the weeds from growing between my rows. Never had any issues with erosion using this method. Hope this helps you out.

In no particular order, 1) Fresh and tasty veggies cannot be beat. 2) It gives me a reason to be outside, otherwise I'd probably spend even more time doing what i am right now (posting stuff on the internet). 3) It's a good feeling to have homegrown veggies thru the winter, especially at...

I've been a member of BYC for awhile. Mined lots of info from both sites. You can't go wrong with either one.

The stores here in Ma. call them "baby cut carrots". So you know they are the normal sized ones whittled down

I've grown Burpee Tenderpick the last 2 seasons. they grew well and tasted great. Bought some blue lake 274 for this year, we'll see how they do.