5 Plants for Your Pollinator Garden
February 5, 2015Jump on the trend of planting for pollinators by incorporating these flowers into your garden this year.
5 Ways to Keep Cats Out of Your Garden
January 22, 2015Prevent roaming felines from making your vegetable bed their litter box with this selection of deterrents.
7 Tomatoes I Grew and Loved This Year
October 2, 2014As I look back on the growing season, I delighted in these tomatoes. Consider adding them to the list for next year’s garden.
How to Control Rose Slugs
August 7, 2014These tiny maggots can be hard to see, but they can do crazy damage to your rose bushes.
Don’t Wait Until Summer for Tasty Beets
May 15, 2014Traditional red beet varieties like Red Ace, Detroit Dark Red, and Kestrel are standard fare in my garden. They’re nice, but my heart belongs to two varieties of heirloom beets: Chioggia and Golden.
4 Tips to Growing Disease-Free Grapes in Your Backyard
April 3, 2014Imagine what it would be like to harvest juicy Golden Muscats or full-bodied Concords just outside your backdoor! One of the biggest problems grape growers face, however, are fungal diseases.
5 Weeds to Leave in Your Garden
March 27, 2014Good weeds. These two words together create what might seem to be the single biggest oxymoron in the gardening world.
Tomato Fertilizer Results
May 30, 2013You might recall that last year I ran a little experiment in my tomato patch. I grew 12 different tomato plants and separated them into four groups of three plants. Each group received a different organic fertilizer (or none at all) throughout the growing season.
Garden Headaches: Stinkbugs and Weeds
August 4, 2011Ugh! The stink bugs are in full force now. I knew it would happen, but this is crazy! I have finally started harvesting my tomatoes, and they’re all covered in stink-bug nymphs. The skin and flesh of the fruits is completely corked from their feeding.
