pinkytoe
Senior Member

Since I like to save seeds, I no longer buy or plant hybrids unless it is a veggie that grows well here.

A previous resident of this house must have planted cosmos seeds. Every year, they pop up in my meadow area and create a sea of chaotic color.

DH thinks I am nuts when I look for seeds or cuttings everywhere I go. I just did a dumb thing and signed myself up to be on a garden tour in August...

Me too. I love growing plants from seeds and have them all over the house. I love watching the soil move as the little seed heads poke out.

This worries me as much as anything. Safeguards and expertise on the topic are being dismantled so quickly because "climate change" is on Trump's...

Wondering about my 81 yr old brother in STL. Hope it wasn't as bad as predicted.

The IRA DH inherited a year ago was half invested in Nvidia stock which did quite well...until it didn't. I kept telling DH we need to move that...

I watched the animated movie "Flow" last night. It is so strikingly original that I couldn't stop watching. I read that people's pets watch it too I...

You must have a wily cat to have avoided them prior to now. We live in an ordinary inner city neighborhood and one day while looking out the kitchen...

Just talked to my older brother who is a Vietnam vet (Green Beret). He utilizes the VA services near him for lots of things he mentioned today -...

Blahs indeed...I suppose that is why I am driven to start hundreds of seeds inside every winter. Hope springs eternal.

Snowed in so trying to get creative with pantry and freezer stuff. Orechiette with Italian sausage, roasted butternut, spinach and parmesan. Citrus...

Both parties have morphed into aberrations of their former selves. Neither one is worth discussing.

I think I stepped out of mine when we moved to another state after forty years in one place a few years back. It was frightening and exciting at the...

I grew up in an old money enclave - though of the Texas type. Classmates descended from original settlers who inherited huge legacy ranches, oil...

I grew up in a somewhat dysfunctional situation so not too many warm, fuzzies for my parents. DD has no interest in these things so in my case, it...

On our last visit to DD's, we noted one of the spare bathrooms was literally floor to ceiling amazon boxes waiting to be broken down. The only...

I am doing the Feb 28 boycott (amazon included) as I like the idea of the People's Union uprising. I rarely shop at amazon anymore - mostly cheap...

Guess I better go stock up on avocados:(

The last few times I went to a Joann's, their stores were a chaotic mess. We have a 60 yr old fabric store here (one half of it is quilt fabric) that...

I saw a quote from James Carville, the Democratic strategist, that he predicts the current administration will implode from within. Best strategy is...

Gardening is definitely a challenge here in the arid west. I have converted to mostly native grasses and plants much to my neighbor's distress. No...

Catherine, that's a lot to deal with. It feels like the whole country headed south too as soon as the New Year hit. Ours is smooth thus far but I...

I would like to see someone full of NEW ideas to remake our neighborhoods and cities. So tired of all the same old politics from both sides. I...

I started with a list of twelve plant seeds and our average last freeze date. Asked for general germination info in a chart form, ie how long to...