IT’S A QUESTION I DON’T HAVE AN ANSWER FOR, but maybe you can help: What’s the best way to keep track of gardening records—a format or tactic that can grow with the garden? Is it index cards; spreadsheets on the computer; a series of actual journals, such as the popular moleskine notebooks? Forum member KK asked the other day, and maybe you have the secret to record-keeping success. (Mine apparently was to start a garden blog—since A Way to Garden represents the first time in my garden career I have ever actually recorded things in any sustained fashion, truth be told.) Tell us here, or better yet, in this thread in the Urgent Garden Question Forum.
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Posts that featured Q&As from the Urgent Garden Question forum.
from the forum: how do you keep garden records?
October 25, 2010 at 9:08 am
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from the forum: can i compost weeds?
July 30, 2010 at 6:46 am
FORUM MEMBER TERRYK IS SO RIGHT TO ASK: Whether or not we can add weeds to our compost heaps without risking weed-filled finished compost is a confusing topic. Won’t all their seeds sprout, or runners survive–especially in a slow-cook, not-so-hot heap? This week, we have the answer in the Urgent Garden Question Forum…thanks to some advice from our English gardening brethren (and a couple of giant plastic bags). Find out how it all works right here.
from the forum: celebrating purslane?
June 24, 2010 at 12:01 am
MEMBER ANN ASKED A GOOD ‘WEED’ QUESTION this week in the Urgent Garden Question Forums, and a thread of great information is developing about a plant you may just pull and toss–but might now reconsider. Purslane (or Portulaca oleracea) turns out to have many endearing qualities, so right over at this link we’re celebrating the delicious creature. Come join in, or ask any question you might have on another topic.
from the forum: ‘somebody ate my plant’ tales
June 16, 2010 at 7:28 pm
I LOVE THE FORUM POSTS THAT START with “somebody ate my…” (Actually, I hate these stories, but feel better knowing that I am not alone in the Case of the Disappearing Crop.) This week in the Urgent Garden Question Forum, there was one I really loved: from member NYGardeningGal who titled her question,“Somebody Ate My Plant From Underneath the Ground?” Oh, dear. Ever happen to you? Got any advice for someone whose delphinium disappeared down a hole? Share it, or just come ask your own question.
from the forum: eating pea shoots (not pods)
June 2, 2010 at 7:56 pm
FORUM MEMBER ANN HAD a good question this week: Ever eaten pea tendrils or flowers or any of the bits other than the peas themselves? Well, yes I have, I replied, offering the best variety to grow for this gourmet salad ingredient or garnish, and I wonder what you think? Do tell. Or if you have nothing to report on that score, what about this: Have you lost seedlings you started to the (dreaded fungal disease called) damping off? Let us know (or just hear our horror stories). See you on the Urgent Garden Question Forum.
from the forum: lily beetles, anyone?
May 20, 2010 at 12:10 am
WHAT’S YOUR TACTIC FOR DEALING with lily beetles? The topic resurfaced (as it had a year ago) in the Urgent Garden Question Forum the other day, and member DogRiverVT was thinking of pulling the plants all out. Yikes! Neem oil? Hand-picking the bugs or larvae? Any other ideas? Please come share your pain or better yet, secrets to your lily-beetle victories.
from the forum: doublefile, or kousa dogwood?
May 13, 2010 at 12:02 am
READER TERRYK HAS ME STUMPED THIS WEEK with the Urgent Garden Question forum question she posed: whether a doublefile viburnum or a Kousa dogwood rated being granted the limited garden space available. I can’t imagine gardening without both…what about you? Which is your preferred plant, or does neither suit your fancy? Do tell.
from the forum: organic weed control?
May 5, 2010 at 11:02 pm
WHAT’S YOUR TACTIC FOR KILLING WEEDS WITHOUT CHEMICALS? That’s what member Megansgreen asked recently in the Urgent Garden Question Forum, because her driveway gets infested with grass (so does mine, and the front pathway, too). Got any tactics for chemical-free weed control? We’d love to hear. Share them in the thread on the topic in the Forum now (and you can learn what ours are, too).
from the forum: when to move flower bulbs
April 29, 2010 at 12:05 am
THIS SUBJECT ALWAYS RATTLES ME A BIT: When to move flower bulbs that you want to relocate, or divide? There are proponents of the “in the green” tactic, meaning to move them when they have their foliage on, and others who say no, no, never–do it once they ripen, or even in fall. The subject was raised again, this time in the Urgent Garden Question Forum by member ITry, and I wonder what you think, and do? Won’t you come over and tell us your approach?
