Homeowner Forum / Lawn and Garden / August 2008

I live in the Upper Hudson Valley of NY, Zone approx 6a. I grow a lot
of tomatoes, mostly for juice. In the collective opinions of this
group, which variety should produce the most number of POUNDS of
tomatoes per plant. I grow them in cages.

So...I let my bean crop get away from me. I usually harvest them when
they're small and really tender. This year because of multiple family
commitments, a pile of them got way too large.
I opened the dried out pods and saved the beans on paper towels. Need

My poor veg garden has deteriorated into a heavy claggy mess of mud :(   I
dug the last of my potatoes yesterday and boy was it hard work finding the
little gems in amongst all that wet soggy ground.  
When I walk between the rows my wellies get sucked into the ground and makes

South east England. One - raspberries. Two - plums.
Autumn Bliss. Plants about five years old. Excellent crops until this year.
Very poor and the leaves on several plants have lost their "green-ness"
Prune to ground level every year about January and feed with Growmore at

I have just moved into a new house that has a badly water logged
garden, due to it being a clay soil.
I have just replaced the boiler which has left me with 2 1m3 cold
water tanks.

Cym ensifolium 'Quan Yin Sue Sing'.  A species from China.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kbarrett/2782471819/
K Barrett

Video here. Warning: It hurts to even watch it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELUmORPMVyU
Diana

Several years ago I grew one from a seed and it cropped beautifully for
about four years.
It stopped when it became short of light - I don't think it's co-incidence.
There's now a large fuchsia two feet away to the east, a caravan two feet

I started out using tools very similar to my fathers.  The warren hoe
comes to mind.  Early on a shovel was a shovel designed for moving soft
earth and perhaps a hole or two this was eclipsed by the spade and the
Irish digging spade.  The forks we had were designed for moving ...

I have a modest orchid collection, mainly Phalaenopsis. As I also have a
collection of carnivorous plants, I would like to try growing
Paphiopedilums, especially as they 'enjoy' the same growing conditions as
quite a few of my cps. Two Paphs. that particularly interest me are P.

We had some people in today who live in France and they were looking for
Damsons which they say seem to be unknown there (Paris and Corsica)   This
got us onto what is the difference between a Damson and a Plum because both
are Prunus and probably domestica?   I understand that ...

I have brought some hyacinths to hopefully flower indoors over christmas in
my Dad and Nan's memory but after last years growing them in the dark, found
them to grow leggy rather than compact like my Dad and Nan use to get them
to grow.  Has anyone ever tried growing them in both ...

I have noticed walking to work some bushes growing among some roses.
They have tiny black berries (anoput the size of a raspberry).  The
stems are covered in small, almost hair-like prickles but no true
thorns (like proper blackberry bushes).  The berries are much smaller

What would make a perfectly healthy Buddleia suddenly die within a month?
Everything else around it OK
Mike
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