I can't seem to get very much leaf harvest- in sun the plants bolt VERY quickly, and in semi shade they are spindly and still don't produce much. BUT they each produce some, they are quite pretty when they flower, and I really like the taste of the coriander seed (I grind them in a mortar and pestle). So this year I think I'll just plant a lot of it and figure I'll get some leaves off each plant.

I grew Raab for the first time last year, and won't ever be w/o it now. I really love the stuff- raw in salads or cooked in olive oil with garlic.

So how many potatoes would you probably get in a container like this?

I'm not that much for lettuce. But I've got kale, chard, mustards, baby greens, and brocolli raab, mostly in containers which I can cover, some in my front flower garden which stays the warmest all Winter.

I have some lettuce, but also baby greens mix, mustards, and broccoli raab, all growing in containers in front of my house. I do the "grow it thick and pick what you need: method. I have the containers on a table, have covered them a couple of nights, and plan when it gets cold enough to turn the whole table into a cold frame.

I just planted kale, mustard, and chard. All of these will hold up pretty well in the cold. None of them really GROW much if it is really cold, but if you get them good sized before freezing temps they will sit there and you can pick leaves as needed. In my area some winters it is warm enough that they DO grow.

I have an enormous butterfly bush, and the hummers like it as much as the butterflies. They also like my snapdragons. And they even were drawn to some radish plants which I let go to seed.

I just planted lettuce, broccoli raab, bok choi (toy version), and radishes. I also have mustard, kale, and chard started in containers to transplant a little later. It is still too warm here, really; mid 80s to 90 days, and low 60s to high 50s night. It will be cooled down, though, by the time the plants get bigger.

We use the cilantro (leaves) in such large amounts in Mexican food and salsa that I can't get enough grown, it goes to seed. I knew that the seeds are used as a spice but I never saved them. Do you crush them or anything to release the flavor?

I have some supports for my tomatoes which are about 4 ft. above a raised bed. I was thinking about covering them with heavy plastic for a sort-of cold frame. The plastic would be straight across the top. Will plastic likely be enough insulation? We are in an area tha gets down to 20s and even teens in mid-winter, but the days are often 50s and the ground never freezes. I'm figuring I will need to open the sides of the frame many days.

The way I understand it, trimming a plant won't make it produce more, it will make what it does produce bigger (fewer but larger tomatoes). Personally, I remove suckers as the plants grow, but when they get really large I just trim back as I need to, to control the plants. I topped my Early Girls to get them to ripen faster, and I top all my tomatoes when it gets near the first average frost date for the same reason.

I would just pull them up and discard them so they don't take up too much space. I had some come up, and I researched whether or not they were edible. I found one funny web site that said there are a LOT of different kinds of LBMs (little brown mushrooms) and that most of them were OK, but some could kill you, and that not even the experts can identify all of them.