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How about a long running thread to capture the pickings from your garden today? Just post 'em up with or without commentary. I'll start with tomatoes, blue lake green beans, Sarpa Mira potatoes, Tex super sweet onions: @Mike: request to make this a sticky thread please.

As we inch closer and closer to spring/summer gardening season, it's about time to start preparing. Figuring out what to plant, making sure the seeds are ready to go, coming up with a plan for how everything will lay out in the garden, and figuring out how to make sure it all gets enough water. For me, that last point is the primary thing I'll need to focus on for this year. This year will be my second year gardening, but my first year going completely drip irrigation. I'm not using the...

I'm retired and one of my retirement jobs is raising cattle. The cows make excellent cow manure which when composted is free of pathogens and seed and a tremendous garden soil builder. I formerly did this all alone but nowadays, I use dogs and helpers to round 'em up. The manure and scrap hay is dozed into big piles which then generates tremendous heat killing all the bad stuff. Contrary to what you will read on the 'net and what "experts" say this is highly fertile and soil tests...