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I bought a pound of Sluggo Plus bait. Parts of my garden are being munched on by slugs and I think, earwigs too. Sluggo Plus kills both. Just watered the garden, so after it dries a little I'll spread some of the bait around. I think the BT I sprayed on the bok choi helped. The new leaves...

I gave the tomatoes, peppers and squash a good soaking with some of the fermented weed fertilizer I made a few weeks ago. I diluted it down, 2 cups per gallon of water. Afterwards I soaked everything with the garden hose to push the fertilizer down to the plants' roots. Picked a big mess of...

Microgreens???

Thinking more about your potatoes, when I was a kid my grandpa grew a lot of potatoes, several acres at a time. They were always planted close to St. Patrick's day. Sometimes a hard freeze would hit and kill all the above ground foliage. The potatoes always grew new vines after the freeze, so...

I mixed some fine gravel with compost for my sage starts and got them up-potted.

I set out 6 okra plants in the garden today. Maybe they'll grow, maybe not. If they don't I won't be buying more seeds to replace them. I need to put together a sandy, rocky soil mix for uppotting the three sage seedlings I have. I'm glad they germinated. The rosemary seeds did not germinate...

That's got to hurt! Are there potatoes of any size under the plants yet?

Do they have any skunky smell to them?

I saved zinnia seeds from last year's flowers. They germinated, but I have no idea what the blossoms will look like. Hopefully they'll be the same as the parent plant. I saved marigold seeds too.

There was a lot of kale to pick. I cut off all the low hanging leaves and big leaves, and ended up with enough to fill a pair of one gallon freezer bags with fresh, trimmed leaves. I chopped up all the leaf stems and have them cooking in a saucepan.

@Acre4Me , have your cornstarch carrots germinated yet? I just gave it a try in my garden. I let the seeds soak in water for 4 days I think, and maybe, just maybe I could see a rootlet breaking out of one of the seeds. They were definitely swollen up from the soaking. =========== I gave all my...

@jerryse , what do your native columbines look like? In western WA they look like this:

Does anybody know what kind of pest is eating my potato vines? It started on one plant and now it's spreading. I couldn't find any worms or other insects. Maybe they only come out at night. LOL I sprayed them with BT (bacillus thuringiensis) because I had some mixed up for my brassica plants...

I have a lavender plant in my garden that was left by the previous owners of my home. It was pretty small and scraggly at first but has grown quite a bit in the last two years. I don't know what variety it is but it survived cold weather that killed my rosemary. My daikon bucket experiment...

I cleaned up around my raised beds with the weed eater.

I buried the whole egg, shell, yolk and white. I crushed it in the bottom of the hole and mixed it with dirt before refilling the hole. I've read that it helps, but it might just be a myth. Worth a try. Woody stem herbs prefer rocky, well draining soil. I'm going to make a new raised bed...

Well, it sounds like a good thing to do so I'm going to drive in some t-posts for my 3 zucchini plants and give it a try.

About pruning and tying your squash to posts, do you think it's hard on the plants losing so many of the big leaves? Seems like it would lower the amount of energy the plants would produce from the sun/photosynthesis. Also, I wonder how one of those elastic Ace bandage wraps would work for...

I just buried a nasty looking whole egg under a tomato plant today. I buried an egg underneath a different tomato last week and nothing's dug it up... yet. LOL I picked a big handful of Russian red kale leaves this morning. For me, not the chickens.

I started soaking some Danver's half long carrot seeds in water this morning and will plant them in a few days using the cornstarch gel planting method. Also... Plucked the lower suckers off of the tomato plants. A couple are starting to create blossom buds. All seem to be doing well in spite...