Sheri Cline, you ask great questions about "Master Gardeners" I know master gardeners that couldn't garden their way out of a wet paper bag, as usual a tittle aint worth the ink on it, read a few books, and the most of it you can't learn from a book…
Great, the water makes it humid as the plants like and it still puts out heat if you run out of oil.... A solar hot water accumulator is cool to, especially if the panel is lower then the barrel of water it will convect up to the barrel with out a p…
If a kerosun is set up correctly it will not make much smoke. Furthermore the smoke is full of micronutrients, there is on going studies of commercial tractors running deisel exhuast via cooling chamber and directed in the farm land, the cooling uni…
This is such a great place to teach and learn and share. A fast way to identify problems for me is to open up my gardens alive booklet ( I guess www.gardensalive.com) they send them for free in hopes of selling you the products you need, but they ha…
That was 1 of 600 Easy Wave Petunias I grew 2 seasons ago, Waves always have a few half breads in them, this little guy was built like a christmas tree, no matter how I pinched it, it just kept going upward and refused to trundle from another leaf n…
Yes $$ official grow lights have a color render value of 92%, cheap shop lights like mine have a render value of 60-80% this is sufficient for my Petunia, calibrocoa and many other ornamentals. Tomato tolerates them to. Radish did not, ,allysum did…
$25.00 will buy a nice electric thermostatically controlled unit, ( use a nice thick extention cord). Perhaps a kerosene heater with a huge water supply over it for humidity and heat once the heater shuts down. Google "solar water pump" to learn how…
What kind of bulb do you use? I want to start seeds indoors this year, and someone told me that a regular florescent bulb is sufficient. Do you know if that's true?
It rained for a month and a half here in New England, I don't know anyone that didn't lose all the tomatoes to late blight in 09, although I got a few Black Russians only because I started them in DEC. they was 6 footers by the time I set them out
Yes, here in s.maine I harvest wood from my 17 acre slice of Maine and stuff 5 cords through my wood stove, we typically burn approximately 100 gallons of oil. I would burn no oil if the stove was in the house but it is out on a 12 x 18 porch as my wife don't want the dust in the house "Dear Abby should I make my wife pay for the oil" LOL, where are you from?
Hi Brian. I've been doing good. I'm a little sad to see all the plants disappearing as we get closer to winter. We got some early cold spells here and everything is pretty much done. I'm looking forward to planting more next spring and I've already got everything all planned out for next year's garden. Thanks for the gift that was very sweet.
my garden has tomatoes, garlic, onions, okra, squash, zucchini, butter lettuce, collard greens, chard, carrots, spinach, cucumber, basil, mint basil, sage, and mint sage, broccoli, cabbage, callaloe( Caribbean green) , thyme, rosemary, cilantro, all three bell peppers and habanaro peppers and the back drop is drop dead red sunflowers.