I grew almost 200 plants from (about 35 types of veggies and herbs). This year i’ve set up an online resource for growing food, and i’m getting local projects set up. happybirthdayricha says: June 30, 2009 at 4:41 am … I live in an apartment so I garden on my porch and I grow a variety of herbs, nasturtium, pansies…

So I purchased some pickling cucumbers . When I made the early in the year the flavor was fine but the texture was a bit disappointing. Reader Brian said to ice the cukes before pickling them I hope it turns out better this time. …

Every year I try something new in my garden…This year it is Lemon Cucumber http://www.naturehills.com/product/org_hrlm_lemon_novelty_cucumber.aspx. Have fun and if you try something and if fails, don’t fret…try something else next year. … Better to stick with small plants in your first small garden. One squash plant can cover a 10×10′ area, for instance. Green beans and snap peas don’t take up alot of space and grow easily. The peas…

More than a few cucumber , melon, and squash plants were eaten by rodents. The rodents ate many of my bean plants too. They ate all kinds of things this year and left me feeling rather hopeless at times. A few of the bean plants that did make it through are … Orange Cinderella pumpkins are growing out front. Various other plants …

It has sure been a nice growing season this year. The rains have been timely, and not having an early frost has resulted in a bumper production of veggies.

One of my goals for this year’s garden was to make pickles , so I planted tons of cucumbers as well as dill, and for once, everything thrived. I’m not sure if the pickles will end up tasting good – I still have to wait a few weeks for …

My parents have a little vegetable garden and, to make a long story short, they had a huge crop this year and gave me about 100 cucumbers and now I have no idea what to.

I made a note in my garden note book for next year around the second week of July to plant cucumber seeds in the very same hill as the ones planted earlier in the year. I think they should start fine in and around the vines already growing . … I really don’t like to …

Basically, these are black plastic 5-gallon bags with expandable growing media already packaged in them. You simply add water, the coconut coir growing media expands, and you plant . Well, it’s almost that simple. … For now, I wanted to round out the growing plan for this year. The big news is that I’m expanding the tomato garden this year to …

“ Cucumbers …where are they?” I often ask while walking in the cucurbit patch (you may have been thinking the same thing if you have been part of Thomas’ CSA in past years). Last year the squash and cucumber picking was a full afternoon adventure. This year the squash have proven … I thought staying on top of beans…

Every year since I can remember, we’ve over- planted cucumbers . We planted them for different sizes – some for pickling, some for slicing. We also wanted to try different varieties and to compare cucumber flavors. This year, we ended the … Like here – http://www.vegetablegardener.com/item/8614/what-causes-bitter- cucumbers . Posted: 12:49 pm on August 25th. Veeta writes: I am planning on…

Supposedly you can not grow grape tomatoes from the previous years seed because the plant is a hybrid. I guess we will see if that is true or not this year. I at least have a plant of some sort so far. … We will also grow garlic which is not pictured here. You might notice …

I don’t think I’ll can beets but just pickles them this year. Definitely more bread and butter pickles and maybe another kind of dill. The dilly beans were good. Maybe a zucchini relish or cucumber relish. …

I typically buy plants for the tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers …but the past two years I have had a heck of a time finding roma tomato plants . I plant romas because I use them to make spaghetti sauce and pizza sauce…they’re better than … I think this year I may try something new, and start my own plants from seeds …

Movie magic will be the toast of Tinseltown on Oscar night, and what better way to bring the festivities couch-side than with a cocktail inspired by this year’s nominees.

Movie magic will be the toast of Tinseltown on Oscar night, and what better way to bring the festivities couch-side than with a cocktail inspired by this year’s nominees.