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Welcome to gardeners, growers of veggies, fruits, flowers, and trees!

Welcome backyard hen enthusiasts, worm farmers, beekeepers & composters!

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If you like to dig in the dirt, plant & prune, grow food & flowers, or sit and watch as someone else does your landscaping, you'll find something here to discuss!

Selected topics, in no particular order:
Moon Phase Widget here. Moon phase topic here.
What's your gardening style?
Frugal gardening.
Backyard Chickens here. here. here. here.
Growing Fruits
Wild Parsnip - It can burn skin.
Why buy locally-grown plants?
Squirrels.
bees.
Cheap gardening.
Buy locally grown plants to prevent blight transmission here.
Grow lots of fruits in a small space, by backyard orchard culture.

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Comment by Sentient Biped on November 22, 2012 at 2:11pm: Beekeeping donkey.

Technically, a beekeeping donkey probably doesn't count as gardening. But maybe it does.

Comment by Sentient Biped on November 22, 2012 at 11:49am: Amer, you are right, the epiphyllum is very fragrant. The segments are also very easy to root. I just let them dry for a day then insert them into potting soil and water only when it dries out.

Comment by amer chohan on November 22, 2012 at 8:04am: Sentient night blooms are usualy vibrantly fragrant. Is your Epiphlum flower fragrant?

Comment by amer chohan on November 22, 2012 at 7:55am: For Christmas cactus, epicactus. infact all coulmner cacti and opuntias you don't have to buy a new plant if it is growing closer by. One just need a leaf or cutting of it. In warm weather they develop roots in a week or so.

Comment by Joan Denoo on November 21, 2012 at 9:27pm: Sentient, thanks for the details on your plant. Thanks for the pronunciation. I looked in serveral dictionaries on line and none of them helped. It is a bit of a tongue twister: schlum BERG era. OK got it

Comment by Sentient Biped on November 21, 2012 at 7:52pm: Joan, that Epiphylum was about 5 years old in that pic. I grew it from a cutting about a foot long. They root really easily. It's bigger now, I had to cut it back. The blooms last a few hours. They close in the early am. the ephemeral aspect is part of the allure.

by the way it's schlumBERGera. I think. Although it was named for Frédéric Schlumberger, with emphasis on 1st syllable.

Comment by Joan Denoo on November 21, 2012 at 7:32pm: How old is your epiphyllum? What was its size when you got it? Is there any fragrance? It is so pretty, and blooms at midnight! How long does the bloom last?

Comment by Sentient Biped on November 21, 2012 at 7:17pm: That epicactus is beautiful! I've grown epiphyllum and have a large one now. It's so big, there isnt' room for it. But it does have beautiful flowers. At midnight.