Recent content by crossstitchkelly

I was going to say your age. And if you're become disillusioned, your expectations will go down.

Try castor beans, aka mole beans. They are poisonous, so don't let children or pets around them, but they are a natural bean that moles love. Poke them down in the mole hills. The moles will then eat them and die.

I know what you mean. We have over 150 tomato plants, 100 pepper plants, and everything else you can imagine: beets, lettuce, radishes, Swiss chard, okra, zucchini, you name it. The only way it got better was my husband kept putting off planting green beans, winter squash, watermelon and...

If you're planting in the ground, rather than planters, a good way to plant tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, and even zucchini is to take black plastic, spread it out and anchor it down, cut X's in it about every 2-3 feet, and plant them in the X's (anchor the X's down too, so the plastic doesn't...

That's how I read it too, and it sounds like vintage Jefferson.