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New Organic Vegetable Gardening Book

If gaining a deeper understanding of organic vegetable gardening is on your to-do list for 2025, the American Horticultural Society has published the book for you. AHS has partnered with Cool Springs Press to produce the organization’s first new book in more than 20 years, and it’s called Essential Guide to Organic Vegetable Gardening. At ...

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Skyline Red Thai Chili Pepper

Thai chili peppers are not my usual jam. And by jam, I don’t mean pepper jam or jelly. Give me a jalapeño at 2,500-8,000 units on the Scoville heat scale or maybe even a serrano (10,000-23,000) if I’m feeling daring and that’s about it. Thai chilis are 60,000-100,000 Scovilles, and for me that can be ...

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You Should Grow Broccoli

Broccoli is the best and tastiest vegetable you likely aren’t eating enough of. And if you are eating it, you’re not eating the best part—the stems! These are bold statements for me to make and mostly subjective, but chances are I am at least 90% correct when it comes to your eating habits. According to ...

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What “Indeterminate Tomato” Means

We’re talking about indeterminate tomatoes in this edition of Just Veggies. You may recall that in the last Just Veggies we explained what the “determinate” on the plant tag means, usually in reference to tomatoes. Quick review and in a nutshell: Determinate essentially means the tomato grows to a certain height, stops growing and puts ...

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DIY Mushroom Logs Part 4: Production and a Recipe

I’ve been discussing what I learned at a do-it-yourself mushroom log growing workshop for the last three posts. Did I subsequently create an inoculated mushroom log? No, I did not. I jumped to the “hurry up and wait” portion of the process by purchasing a pre-inoculated log from my instructor (I wonder if he had ...

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DIY Mushroom Logs Part 3: Spawn Run

To be honest, the title "spawn run" for this DIY mushroom growing post sounds like the latest release in a horror movie franchise. It’s not! In fact, it’s a whole lot of nothing, at least to the naked eye. We’ll get into that in a moment. But first, to review the previous two phases: Phase ...

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