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Looks nice. Mulch that breaks down faster just means that it is turning into organic matter for your soil faster, so you really aren't losing anything. Taking this concept to the extreme, I get a truckload delivery of wood chips from a local arborist that I put into my mini orchard each year...

Thanks for confirming this. I've always heard that raw chicken manure is too "hot" (too high nitrogen) to use as fertilizer. Instead, it should be composted first. I know that beans are very sensitive to herbicides and given that they fix nitrogen and need less than many other plants, it...

I did some additional checking. I couldn't find anything to support this. Do you have a link? We aren't talking about growing full-sized plants, which would be a problem, but basic germination. Excess nitrogen will interfere with flowering and fruit production in plants, but we are talking...

An easy way to test this if you aren't sure about your manure/compost... Take some beans and try to germinate them using some of this compost. If they don't germinate or look defective, then you have problem manure. Apparently beans are some of the most sensitive to these herbicides.

I'm sure that is a good thing with your current freezes/snow. Your plants know to wait. Starting later is better than starting too early. We've had a very warm few weeks and my plants are leafing and/or flowering. I think if we can get past tonight without harm, then we'll likely be in good...

37°F in central Indiana this morning. Supposed to go down to 34°F tonight. Hopefully no lower, because a freeze at this point can make the difference between some of my plants producing or not this year. (I'm looking at you apricot and kiwi...)

Hmmm... Interesting location for a praying mantis egg case. They normally wrap around a branch.

I'm observing the same thing. Unfortunately, I'm expecting it to have an affect on at least some of my perennials. Fruit trees often have a "chill hours" requirement. If they don't get a certain amount of cold time during their dormancy, they may not flower and produce. Edit: Hmmm... If it...

Very nice. Haven't had garlic sprout on me. I did take an entire head of garlic this last year, put some toothpicks in the sides to hold it upright and put the entire head in shallow water to create a bunch of new plants (1/clove).

I've decided that I'm going to be regrowing a lot more onions this year. I've planted onions before from seed, but not enough to fully supply myself. I experimented with a couple of techniques that worked well for me this last fall. I had a bag of onions that I bought at a store that had...

Nice looking flowers. I think Wikipedia does a good job with this one:

They were putting expiration dates on water bottles decades before they learned about micro-plastics, before they discovered the risks of BPA. New Jersey state government was the first to require water bottles be dated so that it would be no different from sodas and other drinks on the shelf...

The human body has an amazing capacity to determine if food is still good that has absolutely nothing to do with government/corporation determined dates. The "best by" date is actually defined as how long the company is willing to warrant the quality of the product- not how long it is actually...

Like chicken... :cool:

Hate that stuff. I'm dealing with it too. Do you have any good solutions that don't involve nasty chemicals?

Nuke them from orbit. It's the only way to be sure...

Yes. They are clones of the parent plant because they have the exact same genetics.

Garden planning starts as soon as the old garden dies off. :) But yeah, some seem to want to start very, very, very early.

I have some regulars in my raised beds- Anaheim (semi-hot) and bell peppers, tomatoes, muncher cucumbers (mostly pickled) and a couple of types of lettuce. I always try one or two new things each year to see if I like them. Luffa was semi-successful last year and grew well on the same...