In our daily diets we need many things. If you think in terms of growing the foods needed for vitamins, protien and calories. If you have not read the article the reader has written in about, please do. Let's see if we can help or even learn something new! In a previous issue Susan McCanless wrote...

Living in an apartment may mean you can not have a large garden spread out through a yard but you can still get the benefit of home grown edibles. Can you help this reader with tips on container gardening? I am a disabled single woman in a second floor apartment with no yard space who would like to grow...

I know many are only still planning but some are planting. What have you done so far and what is coming up?

Does anyone plant by the signs? My Grandmother, Dad and Aunts did and believed that if you wanted to have sucessfull crops, you must to it. I took part in a test last year and will be part of one again this year. We all had to plant the same seeds from the same place , 1/2 planted on a good day and the...

it was something i started after losing my job ,,,, i went back to basics ,,, ten years later its a big success , take time to view some of my photos ,, at www.hartsgroveproduce.com , i,ll answer your questions ,,, thanks kevin

Hello, We live in a townhouse in Southern CA and this is the first year I've attempted to grow a potted garden on my spacious patio. I have tomato, squash, cukecumbers, mini watermelons, and many herbs. I used to mass garden back in Michigan, in the ground. I canned and froze the veggies. Since this...

Again, you've unearthed some good info. A good source for details including what does and doesn't grow well in an area as well as consumer comments on seed companies is davesgarden.com. AM

Last spring, DH (bless his soul!) refinished a couple claw foot tubs we got free from a nearby Victorian remodel. We filled them about halfway with drain/fill, then the top half with a self-made planting mix that is right for strawberries. We started with just 20 Albion strawberry (everbearing) spread...

Big garden again this year. Hopefully we'll find a great repair man for our tiller as last year it broke and we didn't get any corn :( Around here ya gotta plant just right or you miss out. I've saved the millet, hulless oats and barley I grew last year for seed so I'll hopefully get...

I have read the many posts from those who are seeking an easy, producing way to grow their own vegetables, herbs and flowers.With the many years of gardening that I have done, growing up on a farm, I have finally found the most easy to do method of growing your own vegetables.I purchased a grow box from...