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Yeah pokeweed gets pretty big here. The stems usually get to about the diameter of a quarter and the plants usually reach about 6 feet tall. If you have kids running around I would remove the plants, most of the plant including the purple berries is poisonous. Unfortunately your mulberry...

Last one looks like pokeweed.

My suggestion would be to dig up those silly non-fruting trees and replace them with paw paw trees.

It's true there are two different kinds referred to as cantaloupe. The "true" cantaloupe is the European cantaloupe cucumis melo cantalupensis, which isn't netted and has deeper grooves. But it's rarely grown in the US, when Americans say cantaloupe they're almost always talking about cucumis...

From my experience with aphids, neem oil is about as effective as asking the aphids nicely to not harm your plants. I would get some pyrethrins. Aphids generally aren't too much of a problem outdoors though where they have natural predators and other plants to eat. Only occasionally when they...

You got that backwards, cantaloupe is a type of muskmelon. :P Cantaloupe and honeydew are both types of muskmelons. Muskmelon is the species cucumis melo and also includes crenshaw, casaba, and Armenian cucumbers. My mom has always called cantaloupe muskmelon though, I think it's a colloquial...

Honeydew is a type of muskmelon.

I didn't care for the black pearl for eating either. They're really bland and seedy with a very ornamental taste. Kind of like the thai hot ornamentals they sell at Lowe's. The Pimenta de Neyde surprisingly has a pretty decent flavor though.

That's really surprising that the big box stores don't have tomatillo seeds, they all sell them here...Lowe's, Menard's, Wal-mart, K-mart, etc. You've never had salsa verde before?

Haven't seen any aphids on mine yet. There were probably hundreds of aphids on the aronia/black chokeberry right next to it last year though, and aronia are supposed to be pest free. :think:

Another edible nightshade, naranjilla means little orange in Spanish, their juice supposedly makes a nice drink. Apparently they are very susceptible to root-knot nematodes and are difficult to fruit in temperate climates, but they look really cool so I'm trying anyway. A poster on gardenweb...

Wow yours looks a lot different than mine. Mine looks more like this: The leaves are kind of grayish and more lanceolate than yours. Where did you order yours? I think mine came from onegreeworld, but I can't remember for sure, it's a Crimson Star like the one in this picture. It's about...

I had about 7 or 8 tomatillo plants last year, I love them. They're extremely easy to grow and are great for sauces. My purple tomatillos last year (from Tradewinds fruit) never really turned purple, they just got a few purple streaks on them. I'm using two different sources for purple...

Yeah I love Pho. Unfortunately there are no places that serve it around here. I'm going to have to try my hand at making it sometime soon but it seems pretty laborious and time consuming. My Mexican oregano plant is small now but I could send you a cutting later on if you want.

Why not just dig through your couch and round up $2.50 and get one of these?

Pequin, tepin, serranos, super chile, and (surprisingly) chocolate bhuts were the quickest for me this year. 6 days is about the earliest I get any peppers to sprout though. I had eggplants and tomatillos sprout in 3 days though. They sprout and grow faster, have you considered using a...

That is some monster parsley. :eek: I have a bunch of oregano and a little parsley, mint, and chives that came up from last year. Mint plants are indestructible, I had some in a one gallon pot and it grew huge, I didn't water it once all summer (kept forgetting about it) and we went months...

Looks like a pretty mild burn, I would just not give them anything for awhile.

They're not going to grow that fast with just winter/early spring window light, especially in a north facing window. Here is a picture of some of mine taken today, most of them germinated very late February/early January, so most are about 2 months old... I used Jiffy seed starting mix on...

I have to disagree. That article is a poorly written, poorly researched, one-sided mess. She is definitely far outside her area of knowledge, or just trolling. Many of the studies cited are highly flawed or highly misrepresented, and she cherry picks studies and information to suit her...