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 ...
Read More | Just VeggiesThe last I checked, figs are not vegetables. They are fruits, or more accurately, they are the common fig tree’s mature syconium, which contain numerous one-seeds fruits. Fruit or not, this edition of Just Veggies is expanding its scope to include this delectable edible. Why? Because like kale, figs are becoming the “it” ingredient in ...
Read More | Just VeggiesIf there is one garden dream that I have it is that all my tomatoes are well-behaved. By well-behaved I mean it is not a rangy character, growing every which way. Shimmer tomato, a new variety introduced by Burpee, is quantifiably a well-behaved tomato and my favorite plant in the garden this year. Why ...
Read More | Just VeggiesI counted last year’s cucumber harvest on one hand. It was dismal. Whether it was the up-and-down weather, an unhealthy plant or a combination of the two, my cucumber was a disappointment. This year, however, will be the year of cucumber overload. I’m growing a variety that predicts a bushel of cucumbers—it’s even in the ...
Read More | Just VeggiesLast year my softneck garlic growing game was off. Little did I know that my lack of fortune then would result in a bonanza this season. Here’s what happened. Lack of Fortune Although I had grown softneck garlic for several years previously, last year was the first year I grew garlic—or anything, for that matter—in ...
Read More | Just VeggiesIf you are growing garlic and if you’re lucky, you’ll get two harvests from one garlic crop: the final bulbs preceded by the garlic scapes. The harvest of garlic bulbs is the ultimate goal. But, don’t overlook the plant’s first offering of its mellow yet flavorful flowering head. That’s right—garlic scapes are the flowering structures ...
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