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Thanks for the offer. You should definitely try a prickly pear sometime. I don't know about the eastern ones but the western ones are great. To me they taste like a combination of watermelon and raspberries. They're one of the best tasting fruits I've had. The seeds are a little annoying...

Gypsum will only help if your soil is sodic, if not it won't help and may make things worse. Gypsum is a good source of calcium but for improving tilth of clay soils it's probably mostly empty hype. The best thing is to add lots of organic matter. I second the pine bark fines, that is one of...

Cabbage is good, until it's cooked.

F The flowers are similar, but the leaves don't look anything like lupin leaves. I'm pretty sure that's some kind of salvia, not sure which species. Maybe salvia nemorosa/woodland sage.

So how do they get the dragon fruit to grow like this: Once it grows to a certain size does it just branch out and start falling around the pole like this or do you have to train it like this somehow?

If you have the option you might as well start them off in the shade to reduce any shock and keep the leaves from getting burned. If you have a nice shade tree it's really easy to do. Just put them under the tree completely shaded for a couple days, then move them towards the sun a little each...

Tweak, have you tried the fruits on your eastern prickly pear? I've thought about growing those because prickly pears are one of my favorite fruits and I want to make wine with them, but in the pictures I've seen the fruit look much smaller and skinnier with less pulp and juice than the...

Why didn't the parsley go to seed this year if it was overwintered from last year?

I grew them last year, they are annuum. I wasn't too impressed with the flavor, but they were in a spot that didn't get a lot of sun. Maybe they would have better flavor with more sun, or maybe they're better used dried?

Not quite because the P number listed is for P2O5, and the K is for K2O. So you have to multiply the P number by the mass fraction .436 (since P205 is 43.6% P by mass) and the K number by the mass fraction .83 (K2O is 83% K by mass) to get the actual percentage of phosphorus and potassium. So...

Plants hybridize much more easily than animals and are far more likely to produce fertile offspring. There are tons of common fruiting plants that are interspecific hybrids. Grapefruit (orange x pomelo), limequat (lime x kumquat), loganberry (raspberry x blackberry), tangelo (mandarin x...

I space them at about 3 feet apart, they get pretty large. Don't worry about pollination, as long as you have a few genetically different plants (not cuttings from the same plant) they will fruit very easily and will be very productive. They're about as easy to grow as it gets.

I have all kinds of stuff...peppers, tomatoes, tomatillos, eggplant, swiss chard, a few kinds of lettuce, spinach, naranjilla, hybrid Asian/American persimmons, paw paws, mulberries, gooseberries, red, white, and black currants, blueberries, elderberries, figs, aronia, rosemary, 3 kinds of...

I think maybe it's hard tell when they're fully ripe and that seed sellers might sometimes take seeds from pods that aren't quite ripe enough. That's just a guess though. I can't think of any other reason they would be so hit and miss. I tried about 20 seeds from two sources last year and...

Kellogg does use human waste/sewage sludge/"biosolids" from the city of Los Angeles in a lot of its products, which it sneakily just labels as "compost."

So they cut down the maple tree? I HATE those freaking trees. Worst tree ever.

As terrible as Hirt's and Reimer's are, there's a nursery in Georgia called TyTy's that puts all other nurseries to shame when it comes to selling mislabeled plants, dead plants, promising refunds or replacements and not sending them, claiming that replacements were sent when they weren't, not...

The indoor/outdoor shuffle is way too much work. I just stick them under a tree for a few days and then gradually pull them out into the sun.

One of my cats is very nosey and is all up in my business every time I'm doing something with my plants, but fortunately she never messes with them. The other cat has no interest in plants whatsoever. I've had cats in the past that were awful though, constantly chewing on plants and knocking...

That looks good for humidity when they're sprouting but after that I would take the dome off so they can get more light. That would also be a nice little setup for putting the plants outside early when temperatures are a little on the low side and would be useful for hardening them off since...