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Skip, you have been busy. We have something in common. My Mom moved in with me a few years back and has been teaching me some tricks from my grandmother but she's scared of the pressure canner, so that's my job. If the stovetop wasn't so fussy, it...
September 3
We have also made 45 pints of green tomato relish
September 2
Hey, ya'll. Been around a while, but new to this group. I've been too busy canning and working in the garden to post much lately. We've been canning and freezing for the last month or so. My wife is scared of the pressure canner, so I do most of t...
September 2
Our gardens didn't produce real well this year because of our weather, so I haven't been canning as much as usual, but I am doing a lot of drying. Got beet greens, dandelion greens, blueberries, raspberries, cauliflower and ground cherries done an...
September 2
Stephanie a lot of folks have complained of poor tomato harvests this year. Amy is right the hot, humid and rainy weather is not a good environment for tomatoes. For the first time in about 3 years we had to supplement our tomatoes with some bough...
August 30
Since Teri found the old post, I'll update. I planted it in the front flower bed with several other herbs (thyme, rosemary, sage, lavender and a bay in a large pot), flowers (zinnias, day lillies, echinacea, small sunflowers, daisies, etc) and a c...
August 26
this is an old post, but i'm new here so it's new to me! if you're talking about tagetes lucida, my experience with it is that it can take more sun in the ground than it can in a container; and in either case, it's probably best described as semi ...
August 25
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At 5:10pm on August 14, 2009, Wild Flora said…
That's a beautiful photo of a tiger swallowtail on zinnias.
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At 7:19am on May 16, 2009, Angie Knost said…
Hi Sharon and welcome to the Berry Growers group!
I hope you can post some pictures of your berry patch.
I am not familiar with dewberries as I have never lived that far south. Can you share some more info about them?
Happy Gardening! Angie
At 6:02pm on November 20, 2008, Sharon said…
Hi Kathy - Well until this week it was still warm enough down here to get some fall cleanup and planting done and some expansion of the kitchen garden. Tomorrow we will be down around 25 so my busy schedule outside will scale back for a couple of months. I get through early winter by planning what we want to plant and where and going through last year's catalogs and websites to narrow my choices some. Then we just throw all of that away and circle too many things when the catalogs arrive. Well, not quite that bad, but it seems to be a trend!
At 8:12am on November 20, 2008, Katherine Turcotte said…
Hi Sharon - Thanks for joining the kitchen garden group - I hope you will be adding lots of information for us to share! Bet you are waiting for the Winter seed catalogs to start coming in - lol, and it is not even Winter!
Kathy of the Enchanted Wood

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Where do you live and garden?
south Alabama
How long have you been growing food?
forever!
Dream garden travel destination:
Thomas Jefferson's home
Favorite foods:
any veggie I grow myself

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Barbara Lockyer Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving~wishing all who celebrate it, a very special Christmas! May you be richly blessed!
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Barbara Lockyer Here's hoping everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving and that you are able to enjoy beautiful weather like we are...my kind of weather!!!
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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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It's on Food Network (a cable channel). You might be able to find the episode on Hulu, or Foodnetwork.com, after it airs.
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I haven't seen this. What network is it on? I only get free TV.
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Has anyone seen the commercial for a special episode of Iron Chef America that will air on January 3? The white house executive chef will be paired with Bobby Flay, and the commercial says that the secret ingredient and the special guest will be o...
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I have found myself starting to over-analyze the foods I use, in terms of their "organicness" or "sustainability". Wondering whether to buy the organic potatoes (or whatever) from 800 miles away, or the non-organic from 50 miles away can really su...
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oh so jealous
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Hello Gillian It seems to be getting warmer every winter so maybe soon it will be superfluous.
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Good Morning Amna The plant in front is a papyrus. Its likes to have its feet in water but is not frost hardy. I take it out of the pond in late autumn and keep it in a bucket of water, in the shed. To propogate it you put a frond upside down in a...
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Yum!
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oooh lovely - you get cold enough to enjoy a proper chimnea
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wow - I wonder why, they look healthy and the fruit is a good size.
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This is so universal a subject, and so important I think it deserves its own space!
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Hi Carol I grew up in Waterdown above the escarpment. We used to find them just outside the Freelton Bog. Not sure if they are still there. I raised my children on Garth Street and my grandkids on Cannon Street.
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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.

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

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

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

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

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US STATE ABBREVIATIONS

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

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Welcome to Notes.

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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.

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