Considering starting seeds for your vegetable garden this year? If you’re one of the millions of people who took up gardening as the pandemic wore on into its first month of lockdown, you may have begun your gardening experience on fly. This year, however, you have the opportunity to be a bit more planful about ...
Read More | Just VeggiesWho knew that growing strawberry plants from seeds was possible? When I was a kid growing up on the farm, we had a quarter-acre strawberry patch from which we conducted U-Pick sales. Strawberry growing at that time meant transplanting either small plants that we bought from a wholesale nursery or the “babies” produced at the ...
Read More | Just VeggiesKitchen Minis is a new line of miniature potted vegetables that folks can grow inside on a sunny countertop or out on a patio table. And considering that most of America has had to put their outdoor vegetable gardens on hold for the cold months, having some choices for what to grow indoors is extremely ...
Read More | Just VeggiesIt was a dry summer of drought conditions, and drip tape saved my eggplant, tomato and pepper crop. Let me rephrase that. It saved my colleague’s crops, which he planted in 30-yd. long rows. And while COVID made working together a bit tough, the tape made watering the crop easy and accessible to anyone. As ...
Read More | Just VeggiesIf 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 ...
Read More | Just VeggiesJapanese beetles are devastating my veggies. Not surprising, really, since I did have a severe outbreak of grubs—from which Japanese beetles develop—in my vegetable garden’s soil over the last two months. The grubs (the larval form of the beetle) have now grown up, emerged from the ground and become the devastating chewers that they are. ...
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