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Has anyone else noticed the explosion in the population of Asian Lady Beetles this fall? While my cousin was preparing the family farm for sale, last month, a plague of Asian Lady Beetles descended on the farm from the soybean fields that were being harvested around the property. I read that soybean...

If anyone finds a spam message in the future, will someone PLEASE let me know?

Sorry if I haven't been around, but our family farm was auctioned off this past Saturday. I have been preoccupied with helping prepare for it during most of October.

Jayden wrote:Great photos, thanks for sharing. Is the wild basil useful in cooking?

It can be used in cooking, but it doesn't have a potent flavor like garden basil. In fact, I don't know if it has any flavor at all.

I will never again assume that all plants can grow in potting soil.

I've had some successes this year. I seem to have gotten the hang of growing Monkey Flower in a pot. It seems to have done very well for me this year. I believe the type I am growing is Square-Stemmed Monkey Flower (Mimulus ringens). Here is a picture of the variety I am growing, however, not of MY ...

Here is my official, "Welcome to the forum!" Sorry for not getting to you sooner. I have been very busy lately. Plus between problems with my computer and the forum for some reason not letting me know about new activity, I haven't been around. The problem with a Gay Gardeners website is fi...

Such nice daylilies. Wish I could grow them.

What a lovely picture.

Anyone else having problems with certain weeds that just seem to reappear as fast as you pull them out? I made the mistake of allowing Purslane to go to seed one year after I planted it for food and now I seem to forever have it coming up in most of my pots. But the Galinsoga / Quickweed seems to be...

Whoops. I will try to fix that. Something like that popped up originally when I was making it and didn't know why.

A portal page is now once again available. When the forum updated to the new version, all the settings must have been reset.

For those without a link, here is one to the forum's portal page.

http://gaygardener.freeforums.org/portal.php

I have installed a few new board styles. These can be accessed by means of your User Control Panel, then Board Preferences, and finally under the Edit Global Settings area.

I am going to try to add some more in the future. They gave some lousy ones to pick from.

New forum created and topic has been moved to there.