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Michelle W. Flannery

What Vegetables Are You Planting for Fall/Winter 2009?

A while back, I went through all the seed catalogs to find out exactly what all the cool weather crops are. I wanted to find out which on...

Started by Michelle W. Flannery

21 Oct 20
Reply by Gillian
Michelle W. Flannery

Growing Radicchio in the southern US

Does anyone have any experience growing radicchio here in the south? I love this wonderful vegetable, and I'm growing it for the first ti...

Started by Michelle W. Flannery

2 Sep 3
Reply by Michelle W. Flannery
Tamra

table grapes for the south

Anyone growing grapes? I would love to know what varieties do well in the south. I have a spot prepared and ready to go, I just need to p...

Started by Tamra

13 Aug 15
Reply by Jeanine
Julia Ward

Vegetables the deer won't eat?

Does anyone have a list of the vegetables the deer won't eat? I'd like to plant a larger garden away from the house but it'll definitely ...

Started by Julia Ward

7 Aug 3
Reply by Joel LeGrand
Kay Robbins

Broccoli Leaves

This is my first time growing broccoli and I am impressed by the beautiful large leaves on the plants. They look similar to my much loved...

Started by Kay Robbins

10 Aug 1
Reply by Michelle W. Flannery
Amanda Willis

Watermelon Woes

We have been watching our watermelons with great interest for the last couple of weeks. A few tiny fruits were sampled by our critter fri...

Started by Amanda Willis

0 Jul 15
Jared

An apple a day...

Hello everyone. I was at the farmer's market here in Raleigh the other day and ran across 'Pink Lady' apples. I tried a sample and fell i...

Started by Jared

5 Jul 15
Reply by Amanda Willis
Jared

Leek Soup

Hey everyone. I'm looking for a great leek soup recipe. Any suggestions?

Started by Jared

15 May 29
Reply by sandra anderson
Darcy P.

Pests!

Does anyone have any suggestions for a garden ant problem? I do not wish to kill every insect just to get rid of the ants infested in my ...

Started by Darcy P.

13 May 29
Reply by Diana
Randi Saba

New Zealand Spinach

My New Zealand Spinach is doing great in FLA but it the first time I have grown it and I am a little turned off by the "hairy, prickly" t...

Started by Randi Saba

3 May 15
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@Gillian!thanx,he is my son in picture.He is very fond of insects and reptiles,they even some times perch on his hand with out stinging him.@Maggie, thanx ,for your wishes.
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How wonderful, you are fortunate to live in such a lovely part of the world. We look forward to seeing the locally milled flour.
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How lovely - you could enter that in a competition!
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thanks for the comments - I think I am starting a trend here.... It seems I am not the only one that has been wondering if they cannot be used for something. Glen, those are the ground orchids, one of my favourite flowers - the multiply almost lik...
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What a beautiful photo, how precious life and its creatures are. Greetings to you and your community.
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Lisa, It is my understanding that the kitchen waste must be covered with bedding (i.e. shredded news paper) to discourage fruit flies. That has worked for me. Are you sure you are seeing fruit flies and not sewer gnats? S/Gnats look like fat fru...
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Does anyone else have a problem with fruit flies? I have my worm bins (2) in my laundry room, and I started having fruit flies this summer. It's too cold here to leave the bins outside, but I take them out on sunny days and shoo the fruit flies aw...
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HOW TO - ADD A LINK

Several people have experienced difficulty putting working links into comments and blogs etc and I know it is clumsy.... so here is how you do it.....

First type the text you want to appear....  ie  IAN'S PAGE

Then go back and highlight the link text.

Then hit the hyperlink button...a pictogram of a chain link.

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Created by Ian Jun 7, 2009 at 7:28pm. Last updated by Ian Jun 8.

Forum Policy

Hi, I'm starting to put together a few guidlines on using the discussion forum on here.

I would be happy to hear any comments you may have.  This is very much a work in progress so plese feel free to ask me to add anything you think is needed.

I don't want to make our community hide bound by rules and regulations but I think that, as the community has grown, some explanation of what is expected is needed.

Administration

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Created by Ian May 23, 2009 at 1:55am. Last updated by Ian May 25.

Climate maps

Hi following recent discussion I have put climate maps of the USA, Australia and Europe on here for reference..

 Climate map of the USA

Climate map of Australia

Climate map of Europe

 

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Created by Ian Sep 12, 2008 at 6:20pm. Last updated by Ian Apr 14.

Recipes, Recipes, Recipes

Hi Everyone,  I've started to collect together recipes from various posts on the site and put them all together here.

If you have a recipe you want to add on here, just post it on the site and leave a comment on my page telling me where it is and I'll go and fetch it back here.

They are organised in Contributor Order but I'm open to better suggestions!

BEVA'S RECIPES

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Created by Ian Jun 2, 2008 at 9:54am. Last updated by Ian Apr 13.

US STATES ABBREVIATIONS

 

US STATE ABBREVIATIONS

AK - Alaska               AL - Alabama              AR - Arkansas
AZ - Arizona              CA - California           CO - Colorado
CT - Connecticut          DC - Dist of Columbia *   DE - Delaware
FL - Florida              GA - Georgia              GU

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Created by Ian Jan 27, 2009 at 4:27pm. Last updated by Ian Jan 27.

HOW TO - MAKE COMPOST

Recently there was an excellent discussion about composting. I’ve pulled together all the various comments here. You can also watch KGI's video on composting here.

 

 

KATE’S ADVICE

I used to have a tumbler that we made from a wine-barrel but

1 you have to fill it up all at once

2. it seemed mostly

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Created by Ian May 30, 2008 at 5:29am. Last updated by Roger Jan 15.

Notes Home

Welcome to Notes.

To view notes that are in the system hit the "all notes" button above.

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Created by Ian May 28, 2008 at 12:10pm. Last updated by Ian May. 30, 2008.

A Note about Notes

I have just written this note so that I can see what we can achieve by using this new feature.

If you read this and have any suggestions then please leave a comment on my page or email me.

Ian

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Created by Ian May 28, 2008 at 6:19pm. Last updated by Ian May. 28, 2008.

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