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| Grape Vines | 3/27/2009 |
Q: I have 4 grapevines on an old farm fence that is falling down. These vines have not been pruned in ...
A: It's too late to prune this year. Pruning needs to happen before spring. I do it after the first ...
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| weeds | 8/29/2008 |
Q: can you tell me anything about how to get rid of *horse tails"? Thank you, Celia
A: I have two methods. Depending upon your circumstances, one may not be doable. I have a beautiful ...
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| potatoes | 8/25/2008 |
Q: how do we make potatoes with the eyes for planting ANSWER: Dear Bill, I'm not sure I'm ...
A: Bill, Just some place cool. I keep my potatoes in the kitchen and take note of the ones with ...
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| potatoes | 8/23/2008 |
Q: how do we make potatoes with the eyes for planting
A: I'm not sure I'm understanding your question, but I'll share what I know. Potatoes have eyes. Keep ...
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| tomato plants | 5/25/2008 |
Q: What is wrong with my plants when the leaves turn yellow? One plant does not have a tomato started ...
A: I never use chemical products, I'm all natural, but that aside. Usually when leaves turn yellow it ...
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| tomatoe illness | 5/22/2008 |
Q: I have grown few tomatoes plants in my garden. Yellow dots are appearing on the leaves on the basis ...
A: If the tomato plants were healthy when you got them, it sounds like a fungus that is present in the ...
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| Organic Farm | 3/24/2008 |
Q: I live in a high agriculture area of California and I would like to start an organic farm here ...
A: There are different criteria and standards for the word "organic." It's still rather vague in ...
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| Starting seeds indoors | 3/22/2008 |
Q: all the tomato plants I start indoor have died in infancy. They pop through the soil, and then ...
A: Not sure if this could be part of the problem, but I do know if there is too much fertilizer or ...
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| moldy soil and blueberry bushes | 1/23/2008 |
Q: I have recently planted two small blueberry bushes in large pots - we have no land, only a balcony ...
A: I rely greatly upon diatomaceous earth for natural protection from parasites. If this mold ...
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| rooster | 12/25/2007 |
Q: i have 4 hens and 1 rooster all about 12 months old. 1 hen is broody but the eggs don't seem to be ...
A: If you are north of the equator, now is an unusual time for a hen to be broody. I'm not familiar ...
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| Brix and Organic | 7/27/2007 |
Q: I'm having a discussion with a member of an organic-food-related group. He talks constantly about ...
A: As well as being organic, I am strictly natural, so I don't use or have an opinion of a brix-meter, ...
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| use of a sickle | 1/8/2007 |
Q: Greetings, and many thanks. You say, "The ear can simply be plucked from the stalk." So am I right ...
A: Simon, You can harvest two ways, but never hold on to the target of a sickle. You can cut the ...
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| use of a sickle | 1/5/2007 |
Q: When you cut the ears of corn with a sickle, do you actually hold the ears of corn in one hand and ...
A: I'll answer the PS first. We call Messiah, Y'shuah and we do believe he has come and is coming ...
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| red potatoes | 9/10/2006 |
Q: I just dug up my red potatoes. They were very scabby and some were full of holes. It looked like ...
A: Yes, centipedes and grubs can be a real problem. And where there are centipedes and grubs, there ...
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| growing plants | 9/5/2006 |
Q: what plants relly need to grow?
A: I'm not sure I understand your question, but I will attempt to answer it the way I interpret it. ...
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| Sucrose | 8/31/2006 |
Q: Kindred, I am fairly well educated and informed, enough to know that organic gardening is really a ...
A: I wouldn't add any refined product to my organic garden, but we do utilize mulched corn stalks in ...
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