Just Veggies

Growing Salad Greens for Early Spring

I joke that stones are my garden plot’s first harvest each spring, but in reality “stone soup” is displaced on my spring menu by tender shoots of herbs, lettuces and spinach. Casually throwing seeds of lettuces, herbs and tender greens into the soil as I do a final fall garden raking gives me a crop ...

The Fall Vegetable Garden 2.0

If you were on the Victory Garden 2.0 kick when the pandemic hit earlier in the spring of 2020, I suggest you keep your focus and carry through with a fall vegetable gardening—and *gasp!* maybe even the first bit of winter. Are you as tired as your tomato plants look now? Feel weighed down with ...

Cercospora Leaf Spot on Swiss Chard

I’ve written here before about the dreaded Cercospora. If you are not familiar with it, Cercospora is the cause behind the lovely leaf pattern (I’m being facetious) in the photo, aptly named cercospora leaf spot. If you couldn’t tell behind all those spots, that is a Swiss chard leaf. Not very appetizing, is it? I ...