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A Newbie to this site
HI ALL! I'm new, from Seattle, WA
Need help with replacing cabinet pulls in the kitchen!?
How do I figure out the best spot for the veggie garden?
The kids SANDBOX is becoming my NEW veggie garden!
Anyone get a Burpee SEED catalogue?
Molting chicken!
Chickens scratching up the yard!
Changes!!!
My DH refuesed to eat my friend's eggs...
Cooler weather=more eggs from our chickens
Getting ready for fall
LIke clockwrork....
Hallelujah!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tomato recipes....
Energy Audit...
Clotheslines
Solar Energy...
Has anyone grown Arugala or Rocket?
The tomatoes are getting EATEN up....
Lavender??
Do you remember my "century plant"?
I used my compost!!!
Welcome maryelliot!
A question for the other chicken mamas--UPDATED
Funny chickens
Are you having any problems with the site in general?
Time to clean up the "garden"
I need some "filler plants" for my back garden around the pool...
Here are our new girls!
Purslane... anyone?
An odd thing about butternut squash . . .
Do you need to put TWO citrus trees together to get fruit?
Please introduce yourself!
My CENTURY PLANT!!!
Let me count the ways....
Fig jam
Too much sun for a garden?
It's HOT... my flowers are wiliting!!!
tis the season for bird NESTS!!!
My baby doves have hatched!!!
My other azaleas are blooming!!
I can't believe THIS either!!!
You will NEVER believe this!!!
Banana Tree
My embryonic garden
BEFORE/ AFTER front garden bed...
The Azaleas are BLOOMING!!!
Veggie Garden space issues
The Fire ANTS are coming!
Seven trends in gardening
Making your own vanilla?
anyone do vermicomposting (worms)
How to Transplant Potted Hyacinth's
How to find hot topics on the site
Come to the New Users Chat on Tuesday, March 9th starting at 8pm EST to ask the quest
Landscaper's Quote
Make your own seed-starting pots for free
Pre-emergent weed killer
Video: How to prune rose bushes
How much is your water bill? (watering lawn mentioned!)
Bird food
How's your compost?
10 Ways Gardeners Can Stay Busy in Winter
Unexpected freezing temps!
I'm leaving but I'll still be here
Where are you getting your seeds? What varieties?
Who's ready for the new season in their veggie patch??
Grapefruits and oranges and lemons, oh my!
I lifted the door to the BOTTOM of the compost bin...
New grass!
Loving my fall garden
The compost bin is FULL!
Fall garden question-eek
Fall gardens anyone?
Dumb question, I know
So cute! (*Cats)
I have a HORRIBLE pain from this weed!
Welcome RobinL! (she moved to Florida and needs help w/ her garden)
Anyone have anything they want to talk about?!
A few garden pictures
A poll
California garden harvest!
cooking with green onions
How are the chickens/compost piles/end-of-summer gardens doing?
Gardening in warm-winter areas
Any pear canners here?
Sunset plant finder
Adventures in composting continued....
Herb gardening?
MY new babies!
Let me try some pics again!
Adventures in COMPOSTING!
Home made pickles ???
Garden Pics
Some stuff I grew this year :-)
Let it Rot!
Have you read the book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle?
Saving seeds? Anybody try it?
My new babies came :-)
Sad hummingbird story (death ment)
Can we share what we're gonna do with an overabundance of veggies?
Look at this low-cost, low-space garden!
Before garden...
Back from the beach... need help with composting!
Recommendations for an unusual Zone 3 perennial?
I got some surprises coming!!
Some Pics :-)
The bees are in their new home
Our bees arrived today
Can I join you???
3boys2love - Chicks
Look what I found in the garden today...
Ink and leather...grrr...
2 questions?
Using garden boxes this year instead of planting under trees
Thanks to 3b2l . . .
novice gardener needs help!
Callalily (sp) question?
Welcome iris01 and Alexismith
Living off the grid
Do you Twitter?
Anyone ever planted sweet potatoes?
Kind of obsessed with homesteading.....
Composters....
I surveyed my garden yesterday . . . .
I think I have wildflowers!!!
My "who knows what's growing garden?"....
I never planted my garden....
What will you do differently next year?
Best way to dry flowers?
Ok I am ready to start a garden again.. help & suggestions!!!
Hiding my face to say this . . .
going green... with worm composting
What is my garden up to in my absence?
First batch of tomato sauce
I beat MAV to the sunflower picture!
First batch of salsa
Sun flower upate.... now 5 feet 4 inches tall!!!
Waiting on the tomatoes . . . . [Salsa recipe in post 5]
The sunflower are thigh high now!!!
Update... on sunflowerrs!
We have a tomato (from blog)
Banana Peppers/Jalapenos...
Some garden pictures--mine!
ONLY 5 days... and guess what?
I cleaned out the caband and guess what?
How long does it take a sunflower plant to "go to seed"?
Fruit and Berry Patch?
Tomato plant questions...
Harvested our Bonnie brand cabbage!!!
Ezekiel bread anyone?
Got my pressure cooker
Going to pick strawberries later this week, help
crab grass???
Anyone else getting discouraged with their garden?
Trying my hand at making jelly
Anyone done the upside down tomatoes?
Upside down tomato planters--cheap!
Any interior painters here?
our seedlings
What are your favorite canning books?
Katrack Here are the Jars
more questions
pectin how old is too old?
Looking at pressure canners
canning question
Can you help me decide what to plant in
A tour of my Garden (a looonngggg thread with photos!!)
Our little garden
Looooong germination periods!
HELP -- Ants in my p(l)ants!!!
Home canning
Finally....
Who composts- help needed
Question reguarding strawberries
Here is my (very) humble garden
Cool weather seeds are planted!
When is the last frost-free date in your area? (link)
Making planting pots out of newspaper
Have any of you tried Webkinz Gardening?
New Bed!!!!
Crop rotation diagram
Spring is knocking on my door and......
I MAJORLY raked and weeded the tropical garden!!!
DARN!!!! Cabbages are "cold weather" plants!!!
We have a BONNIE"s CABBAGE!!!!
Dirt tracked Through The House.....
composting
Geranium 'Rozanne', The 2008 Perennial Plant of the Year
My garden "plot" so far--LOL
Plants for shade areas
Do you have a specific standard spot for planting your veggies and herbs?
What i got done today!
Loopy Lou mentioned companion planting--ever heard of Three Sisters planting?
Started my first plants last night!
Staging house for sale question
Uses For Dollar Store Shower Curtains
Add dryer lint to your compost pile
Gardening resolutions
So far...
A little something to get you salivating . . .
Chilis from Hatch
Cassia Delosa? Bushy tree like plant with yellow blooms..
so I am not planting anything now.... it's December... what to do?
First Burpee email today
Planting already!
just found this little corner of FT!!
Putting your garden to sleep
The small corn stalks are wilting.... WWYD?
difference between golden eagle and hawks
Thre corn stalks...
Cress seed?
The elephant ears are...
OMG!!! I have two tiny itty bitty baby...
suggestions for a vigorous climbing plant
My plants are gonna die... help!!!
Tuesday Tips
Confessions.....
How to get rid of baby elephant ears....
Well, my garden was DESTROYED in a hail storm last night.
TUESDAY TIPS August 14
Pumpkin pics!
How do protect my pansies?
The weeds have broke through the barrier and are now coming through my mulch!
We HAVE PUMPKINS!!!
TUESDAY TIPS August 7th
1 week after planting veggie garden and I have SPROUTS!!!
Angel's Trumpet... is that the same as Moon Vine?
AUGUST garden quote of the month
TUESDAY Tips for Gardening!
Rhubarb
I planted the VEGGIE garden!!!
Elephant Ears!!!
grass?
Another Garden Quote!!
Tuesday Tales and Tips
Pumpkins are taking over.....
Tuesday Tales and Tips!!!
I pulled weeds in the RAIN!!! VERY EASY!!!
Garden Quote of the month!
Did I tell you we sent a letter to the crotchedy neighbor?
Okay , no green beans for us!
Solar Power for home - North East
Indoor plants... any ideas?
What can I plant NOW? In the South?
Ok, the yard is done... now I need a COMPOST bin!!!
I've got our tropical garden going well... need a few more ideas!!!
Any suggestions...
Killing thistles????