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We have stinging nettle here too. Lots of it. It came in a load of hay for the horses many years ago. From the horse manure it has spread to every part of the property, especially in the flower beds and big veggie garden where the manure was tilled in. I do pick the tender green tops in spring...

Y'mean "Poke salad Annie"? "The devil's got yer granny?

Spicy Chicken ...please be patient. There is more to gardening than posting pictures. When you plant a seed you have to wait a while to enjoy the plant. And newbie sprouts like us have to be checked out in case we're actually bad weeds disguised as flowers.

Your buttercups look completely different than mine. Mine are deep green with just a blush of orange. The flesh is dark orange almost like pumpkin and soooooo delicious mashed with butter or used for pies too. I wish I knew how to upload pics I have of mine. My old Mac computer doesn't seem to...

Oh I see. LOL. I couldn't picture someone being that nerdy about compost.(OOPS ... I forgot about my good friend Dave) He's THAT nerdy about every detail in his garden, including his compost. After I read a few responses I kinda figured it was an inside thing. I know that getting ones fingers...

I have lots of feathers in my coop bedding right now too. I can't imagine sifting through the soiled bedding to cut them in half though. The bedding goes out to a debris pile on the property and the chickens scratch and dig through it until it is all aerated and spread out.

We grow buttercup squash every year. Our favorite for savory cooking but my sister uses it for her "pumpkin pies". You'd never know the difference.

OMG! Too funny. My niece was just telling me about that picture. I love it.

Thank you. It was a wonderful feast with many fresh veggies from our garden. It's great to celebrate the bountiful gifts of Mother Nature.

Our garden soil is sandy and well manured but with potato sized cobblestones throughout. We usually get a good crop of carrots in there and this year looks good too. I always save used coffee grounds and put a good bunch into the seed rows before I put the seed in, It stops carrot worms totally...

Just pulled the last few peppers yesterday. Nice crisp green peppers. The funny part is we had a cold damp lousy summer with only one hot spell during August. And we're up in the Pacific Northwest. It has been a weird weather year for everyone I think.

Hello from Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada. WET, WILD and WEIRD ... soggy chickens and great gardens. My best crop this year was mould. LOL. Actually garlic was my best crop.

The best sandwich combo with PB is Cheez Whiz spread. And Cheez Whiz with tomato is good too, but I just can't make the leap o'faith to PB and tomato. I'd try tahini and tomato maybe.

Welcome Dar. I'm just arrived too from BYC. I hope this site is as much fun and just as addictive. Well so much for housework, LOL.

We're up in Pacific Northwest (British Columbia) and I would normally be putting garlics in about now but we are having a lot of rain right now. If we get a nice dry spell in early October I'll plant then. I like the soil to be warm and dry for about a week after I plant them and spread a nice...

My garden is semi-communal as we live on 3+ acres in my sister/BILs' rental cabin, they're in the the big log house and our elderly mom lives here too and loves her veggies and fruit. The veggie garden used to be a horse paddock so big and fenced and well manured by the remaining horses. BIL...

Yup. Started at BYC too. Now I can spend twice as much time on the computer. LOL

Hi folks. This is my first post here. I have squash that are almost ready to pick. Buttercup squash. The last few years I have grown a variety of different winter squash but buttercups are my favorite. I make sure to leave the stems as long as possible to dry up like an umbilical cord, or else...