Black Walnut Trees killing Tomatoes
This is one of those things that many people are not aware of, as you would have to be trying to grow tomatoes near Black Walnut trees to encounter such a gardening debacle. Black Walnut trees emit a...
View ArticleJapanese Beetles – Garden Pest
I’ve planted many small gardens over the years and have never had that many problems with pests. But this year, I grew my first large garden in an open field with loads of various plants including a...
View ArticleFried Green Tomatoes – Southern Tradition
One of the joys of having your own garden, is that you decide what goes into the soil and you determine when you want to pick it. It’s not like you can go, at least not around here, to the market and...
View ArticleGarden Season of 2011
This may be the first year in a long while, that I don’t get to enjoy the garden season. I was hoping to put out another huge garden and add some more posts this year into the Garden Category of this...
View ArticleGarden Pest: Tomato Hornworms
As I mentioned on my “Garden Season of 2011” post, I was doubting if I’d even put out a garden this year – especially since I was moving, in between two houses, getting a late start, etc. Well, I ended...
View ArticleGrowing & Cooking Okra – The Health Benefits of…
Whenever I mention Okra, there is usually somebody that will say something like this: “Say whaaa? You eat Okra? Eeew!” Ha-ha! But seriously, this stuff is really good and I think more people would...
View ArticleVideo: Growing Asparagus is Easy!
…I recently watched a video about growing asparagus and just how easy it is to grow. All of this time, I have thought it was one of those crops that involved special care and time. The reason why I...
View ArticleGarden Pest: Squash Bugs
It seems that every garden season or at least every other one, I have a new visitor (garden pest) enter my glorious growing areas – no matter how many times I change locations, move the crops, etc....
View Article‘Topping’ Tomato Plants toward the end of Growing Season…
This is something that I recently tried this year, as I have always denied the whole pruning philosophy when concerning tomato plants, but this year I had another problem, which was a good one, and...
View ArticleGrowing Tomato Plants from Trimmings/Stem Tip Cuttings
Well, as the garden season in my area is approaching its latter days, I decided to do a little experiment this year with my tomato plants. It is something that, for whatever reason, I never thought...
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