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My basil has not started to flower, yet. I clip the flowers off as soon as I see them, so the plant doesn't go to seed. My oregano and...

As far as cooking goes, I do the same, I make jellies. Initially, I used to pick each berry and tried to avoid picking the stems, but...

We had chickens for many years, until the raccoons got your last one, the kids moved out and my wife went vegan. Didn't need a few...

Your basil looks nice and healthy ( especially considering the heat you're getting down there). My base l is also potted. and doing...

I planted my basil in a pot this year, and I keep it on the patio so I can easily water it a couple times a day on the 100F-plus days. I...

I picked 7 eggplants today, that Asian Delight the two plants the most from, so far, with a bunch more, all different sizes, and more...

Mr bliss and I sprayed kaolin clay and the potassium bicarbonate today in a new sprayer. (the sprayer broke but not because of the...

I use Pepper as my " what to expect in the next week or two" gauge". It's amazing how much of a difference there is in being 100 miles...

@pepperhead212 @larry_stewart you guys are so far ahead of our gardens! Awesome. Today we counted 32 little bunches of grapes...

As far as garlic goes, I grow German white because I've had the most consistent success with this variety and a garlic farm about 30...

I got the first ripening of several tomatoes today, the Pruden's Purple sort of surprised me. The Genuwine hybrid was the largest, so...

There's quite a crowd of people here that grow different kinds of garlic. I grow a hardneck russian red and live in Wisconsin, we have...

The irises were embedded in the clover, so that's why I didn't want to use anything on them. What I had was a 10'x6' plot of nothing but...

I had a neighbor across the street who used to complain about everyone trying to rid their lawns of clover, he said, and I quote him "...

Guess what? The REAL carrots are now coming up. I have no idea what the other stuff was. Probably bird seed got in the bucket when I...