Articles on growing organic vegetables and fruit without synthetic fertilizers or pesticides.
September gardening tips include protecting your garden soil, getting houseplants ready for winter, dividing daylilies, and visiting an apple orchard.
September Gardening Tips: Enrich Soil, Protect Garden Beds, Divide Daylilies Read More »
Sometimes when I’m weeding, I feel doomed to repeat the same task over and over again. But I’ve learned a few techniques to make the job more manageable.
A plant growing in an unexpected place may be a weed, but think twice before pulling it. It could be sending you a message.
The University Of Connecticut conducted an interesting study on how milk spray can be used to prevent powdery mildew disease on squash and pumpkins.
Can Milk Protect Your Garden Against Powdery Mildew? Read More »
Powdery Mildew is a quick to spread fungus which can infect many plants in your flower or vegetable garden. Post includes pictures.
Many vegetables and herbs planted in early spring can also be sown mid to late summer for a delicious fall harvest.
Phil Nauta’s Building Soils Naturally focuses on how to improve garden and lawn soil health by balancing your soil’s nutritional components.
It may be the hottest month of the season, but it’s time to sow fall veggies, freeze or can summer fruits, and harvest onions.
August Gardening Tips: Harvest Onions, Store Fruit, Sow Fall Veggies Read More »
Blossom-end rot in tomatoes frequently appears after a drought. Roots are unable to take up sufficient water to move calcium to the growing fruit.
Black Spots on Tomatoes Could Be Blossom-End Rot (BER) Read More »
When you compost your garden, plants need less fertilizer, soil quality improves and plants show more tolerance to diseases and pests.
Compost: Today’s Leftovers, Tomorrow’s Plant Food Read More »