Got a bad back or find it difficult to perform lifting and pulling tasks in the garden? The EarthLifter tool can help with that. I was able to test drive the EarthLifter while attending a trade show recently. It’s a tool whose form and physics allows you to use less effort when going about your ...
Read More | Just VeggiesWe’re ten days away from Christmas Eve. It’s time to start shopping if you haven’t done so already, and I wanted to offer a few suggestions for finding practical gift for gardeners this season. Holiday Gift Ideas for Gardeners The Best Weed Tool Over 20 years ago, CobraHead sent me a prototype of their hand ...
Read More | Pest PatrolNot all pumpkins are orange, and the new Buckskin pumpkin from Burpee is a great example of that. Buckskin is more of a buff color than a Jack-O-Lantern type orange. However, if you look inside, Buckskin is indeed the rich and deep orange you’d expect of a pumpkin. Buckskin is in that rare pumpkin category ...
Read More | Just VeggiesNational Garden Bureau has declared 2023 the Year of the Broccoli for the gardening organization’s edible category. Cheers to that! While some people famously do not like broccoli, I for one say, “all the more for those who do.” Perhaps broccoli haters just have not had it prepared in a way that brings out its ...
Read More | Just VeggiesI have tried growing mushrooms using the pre-packaged, pre-inoculated blocks of sawdust-like material that you can find in plant shops and grocery stores. I’ve even written about here within PlantersPlace.com. I’ll be honest—I didn’t have a whole lot of success. Was it me? Was it a faulty mushroom block? Several faulty mushroom blocks? Not being ...
Read More | Just VeggiesThe Mexican Sour Gherkin Cucumber (a.k.a. cucamelon) from Burpee is the latest new-to-me edible for my garden. More on that in a second. First, I want to tell you a little story. When I was a kid, one of the treats my mom would give us was a canned fruit cocktail. I loved its sweet ...
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