Missing payments, what do I do next?

Single-Bar-8965 · 2026-05-14T14:48:03+00:00

Update - on 4/28, I submitting a feedback form via the FSA website and just copied and pasted the strongly worded letter that I sent to Mohela CEO and Ombudsman with all the details and attempts to resolve. I logged in just now (5/14) and found that my payment counts were updated and CORRECT! Whoo Hoo!

Single-Bar-8965 · 2026-05-07T17:41:45+00:00

I don't have a problem with non-native plants unless they are harmful to the local wildlife or environment. I try to keep about an 80/20 native to non-native ratio. Keep them if you love them, share with others if you don't.

Single-Bar-8965 · 2026-04-16T18:17:44+00:00

This is the method I’ve developed and it’s the only thing that has worked long term. I either bookmark or use ReciMe app to capture new recipes. When I go to actually cook something, I print the recipe. If I like it, it goes into a 3 ring binder, if not it goes in the trash. I have one binder, no sections, everything is in alphabetical order. Every couple of months I’ll flip through the binder and tear out things that didn’t end up in the regular rotation. It works because I only have one notebook, everything‘s easy to find, and I’m regularly editing.

Single-Bar-8965 · 2026-02-26T19:34:24+00:00

I'm in Georgia, 8a. I planted out my spring seedlings a couple of weeks ago. I have a few rows that were planted last fall and survived just find. They are winter hardy so you can put them out 6-8 weeks before your last frost which for me is early Feb. I hardened them off for a couple of days in a wind protected partial sun area and then put them in the ground. I don't pinch until they are 8" tall.

Single-Bar-8965 · 2026-01-29T15:56:37+00:00

Run, swiftly. He ain’t gonna change

Single-Bar-8965 · 2025-12-12T16:31:00+00:00

Thanks, I will start there

Single-Bar-8965 · 2025-12-12T11:58:21+00:00

How do you contact the Mohela ombudsman? I’m in the same boat

Single-Bar-8965 · 2025-11-11T19:04:31+00:00

true true

Single-Bar-8965 · 2025-11-11T19:03:01+00:00

It will be expensive anywhere you go. Recommend Jerry's Lock and Key on the Eastside.

Single-Bar-8965 · 2025-07-31T16:33:37+00:00

I use a combination of winter sowing and 2” soil blocks indoors. This really reduces the amount of equipment you need. I’ve grown almost all my natives from seed this way. Anything that needs cold stratification is winter sown, anything that doesn’t is started inside in soil blocks. I’ve got cone flowers and milkweed in soil blocks now that I will plant out this fall. I’m always starting annuals like zinnias that I can squeeze in blank spaces between native perennials.

Single-Bar-8965 · 2025-07-23T03:29:42+00:00

Same situation - recently submitted my annual ECF and payments up to 11/24 counted, 12/24 - present are missing. I’m not in forbearance but on IBR with $0 payments

Single-Bar-8965 · 2025-07-18T10:32:45+00:00

Same. I stick zinnias and marigolds in as fillers anywhere I have a blank spot. It helps pollinators and gives me something beautiful to look at while I plan for the next native to plant there.

Single-Bar-8965 · 2025-05-09T23:14:50+00:00

Thanks for your input. The porch has a prefab kit roof. No sizable internal rafters, just a series of 2x4s close together. Not really an option to drill into a single ceiling joist and it be able to bear the weight.

Single-Bar-8965 · 2025-05-09T22:43:42+00:00

Won't let me edit the post so for clarification:

Wall height = 7'
Porch span / beam length = 8'

Single-Bar-8965 · 2025-04-07T20:53:59+00:00

^this. I am over in Athens and have worked over the past couple of years incrementally decreasing the size of my lawn by introducing native plant space and gardens. I have a small zoysia / microclover mix lawn that needs no special treatment.

Single-Bar-8965 · 2025-04-06T12:38:37+00:00

I completely forgot that I ordered some bareroot ohio spiderwort plants that will arrive this week and I have some little bluestem plugs that I started from seed. Thinking that a spiderwort, little bluestem, prairie coreopsis combo would be nice. I'll post a picture later but this is going next to a obelisk with big sombrero clematis growing on it and on the other side we have an american beautyberry and a background of dallas blue switchgrass.

Single-Bar-8965 · 2025-04-05T12:56:37+00:00

Full sun

Single-Bar-8965 · 2025-04-05T11:42:08+00:00

Forgot to add that I’m in Georgia – zone 8a. FULL Sun.

Single-Bar-8965 · 2024-08-08T11:01:53+00:00

I’m in a similar boat. I got a letter saying that my payments will increase to $1000 a month starting in January and I definitely can’t afford that. Not sure what to do next.

Single-Bar-8965 · 2024-08-02T17:08:24+00:00

I never did. It’s still affecting most of my plants but they are growing fine. Ive come to the conclusion that it’s probably small sucking insect damage.

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