Glad the picture helped! Sometimes they really are worth a thousand words, huh? ;) Yep, purple hulls are southern peas ~ toast during a frost/freeze. "We intentionally started the squash late, trying to get another crop out of the season. I babied the plants and they were doing great. Even after the second frost they had tiny little squash (Crooked Neck & Zucchini)." Replanting for a fall garden is a great idea, but I've always hated how they die by frost right when they get going good. :*( "What I have in my garden right now was mostly started in August, some in late July, some in September." Hmmmm... Broccoli set out that early should be producing by now. Are the plants tall and full of leaves? My producing ones are a couple feet tall and loaded with leaves: If yours aren't, it could be from lack of food. They need a good bit of nitrogen to put on a lot of leaves to be able to support a bloom. Those leaves are what makes food for the entire plant, so you need a good healthy bunch of them to get much harvest. Don't give up on yours yet though ~ try giving them some fish emulsion and topdressing with some composted manure (an inch or so around the bases of the plants out about a foot from the stem ~ don't put it right up to the stems either, but keep it a couple inches away from them). "I hope I don't have invasive hay, it came from home depot or lowes, somewhere like that. It's been stored from the past few halloweens. We usually have parties and the kids sit on bales of it, that's why we had it in the first place." Then it's most likely straw. Is it mostly hollow stems? That's straw ~ not invasive, though sometimes it still has seeds that sprout (oats, etc.), but are fairly easily pulled if gotten at early. Since yours is years and years old, you'll likely not have many (or any) problems with that. "My neighbor grows rye grass in our yard, he uses it for pasture - is the wind blowing into my garden a bad thing??? Thanks for all the help, I just keep thinking of questions as I reply :) " Wind blowing the rye into your yard you mean? Nope, not a bad thing really. Free organic matter is good. Seeds will sprout, but are easily weeded with a diamond hoe if you get them early (leave them in the garden after cutting ~ again, free organic matter is yummy!). Regular wind blowing in isn't bad either unless it's strong, cold, dry winds for a while ~ if you notice it's burning your plants you may want to put up a bit of a wind break. And you're welcome! If you have more questions, fire away. :) " My neighbor keeps cows not too far from my garden. Should I be concerned? They do graze..." If there's enough grass out there for them to graze, then that's not a feedlot operation like I was talking about and you shouldn't have anything to worry about (mine graze right up to the fence, six or eight feet from my garden). It'd only be a danger if your neighbor had a real feedlot ~ like Nc-crn said, if a bunch of waste was washed into your garden ~ but the authorities don't take things like that lightly. So no worries. I haven't seen that movie yet, but I'd like to. I saw King Korn (or the first half of it) and that was a good one ~ a couple college guys go to Iowa to grow their own acre of corn the "big agri-biz" way and "much hilarity ensues" (and a lot of good, serious information is given as well).

Hi Phyllis, I think we need a little more info to figure this out. What are your weather conditions, and where are your gourds as they are drying? When did you harvest your gourds? And, what experiences have you had with past crops? Jan

I've heard others on this forum say that when a hosta doesn't grow for a couple of years, dig it up and plant it in a different situation, usually a bit sunnier. Sometimes planting it in a pot of pine mulch will help it along. This is the plant equivalent of a kick in the keester. I feel your pain. I've got a Parhelion that is just a couple of unremarkable leaves and has been this way since I got it 3 years ago. I'm going to take my own advice and plant it in a pot of pine mulch and move it. Let's see what happens. Lainey

Does the tute mention if you write it to dvd you can have a file 4gb but if you write it to cd in needs to be 650 mb. You size large zips to fit the media or to make it a comfortable sized file to upload or download. Plus sometimes email rules come into effect. I split a windows 8.1.1 DVD up into 8 chunks to upload a copy. Server upload size rules. If you're working with a large already zipped file.. you should unpack it before zipping it into chunks. Otherwise you will create some confusion and double work for whomever opens it. This post was edited by mikie on Wed, Aug 6, 14 at 21:53