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Comments (4)Sphagnum Peat Moss is the magic that makes SWC work, I have grown in it straight before but tomatoes are so vigorous they would probably grow in anything. I had so much trouble finding a potting mix locally that had the 70% peat as suggested by EarthBox that I ended up adding half Peat to purchased potting mix. Recently, my local Home Depot began stocking Promix HP which works great....See MoreYour best plants in your garden
Comments (6)I'm thrilled with whatever is growing well this year. That seems to change from one year to the next. When you say 'Favorite' that seems a little different to me than 'Best'. Only because sometimes my favorites don't grow as well as I would like and my best plants are those that do grow the best with the least amount of attention and fuss. I can't imagine narrowing it down to a single plant. I love so many, but these plants are the most dependable performers for me that I enjoy very much. Right now, it would be Dicentra the pink, but especially the white. And I love it paired with Lunaria which blooms at the same time. Those come back every year and get bigger and better and look lovely together and NO fuss at all. Then they disappear into the background while others start blooming. I love Japanese Painted ferns with Epimediums. Easy, dependable, lovely together and I don't seem to feel I ever can have too many. And after the Epimedium bloom, the pair looks great all the rest of the season. Later in the summer, Perovskia, Pennisetum 'Hamelin', and Echinacea are three of my favorites that really perform again without attention and they also look good all season....See MoreBest all-around homestead dog...
Comments (72)Well, since everybody has thrown in their 2cents, I reckon I will too. I've had just about every kind of dog there is including a Wolf, trying to find the right ONE for my farm and I've come to the conclusion that there isn't ONE. But you can get close to it. The best ones I've ever had were a female Aussie/Border Collie mix, a female Border Collie/Blue Healer mix, and Great Pyenesse male and female. The Aussie/Border Collie was a great dog so far as being a judge of character of anyone that came on the property. If she growled or stood between them and you, there was something wrong, and you could bet on it. She was good with the stock and would work them well. She loved the grandkids after they got beyond infantcy. When they were babies she didn't know what to do with them. But after they became toddlers, she was as protective as she could be of them. If she thought somebody was being too rough with the kids, she would get between the adult and the child to stop the action. And if the adult started to reach for the child, she would come up on her hind feet and snap her jaws to warn the adult to leave "HER" child alone. She was quite the motherly type. But someone liked her too much and stole her. It really suprised me that she would go with anyone in a vehicle other than us, but she did, and we never saw her again. Which brings me to my second choice. The Border Collie/Blue Healer mix was a VERY active dog. She loved to play and herd the goats and cattle. She loved to play with the grandkids and was very much a family orentated dog. Unfortunitly, she like to chase our car when we went to town. No matter what we did, short of tieing her up, we couldn't break her of that habit, and she followed us one too many times and the truck behind us put a permenant end to the problem. The Great Pyrenesse's were great guard dogs for the stock. They kept an eye on the comings and goings of everything on the farm and didn't let strangers out of their car if they didn't know them until we came into to call them off. The female loved the grandchildren and would walk everywhere with them. And if they started to go somewhere that she thought they might be in danger, she would herd them away from that area. The male was too rambunchis to play with the kids. He had a habit of knocking them down and try to keep them knocked down. He was a good dog, just not for the kids, so I'd have to put him in his pen whenever they came over so that they could spend their visit on their feet instead of their butts. If I had to choose just one, it would be the Aussie/Border Collie mix. She was medium size, quick to learn, protective of the property, and all of the family and animals on the farm, and she had a great personality. If you can find one like THAT, get it. Best of luck, Gray Bear...See MoreBest new plant(s) in your garden (2018)
Comments (35)RE: BLUE CHIFFON My experience is that it is not sterile, but it seeds much much less than other ones. I had a pink one that left hundreds and hundreds of seedlings. I think Blue Chiffon is so pretty it's worth the risk of a couple dozen seedlings. You can reduce the # seedlings by deadheading before the seedpods form. If you are late, you lose....See Morephoenix7801
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