In a previous post on starting seeds I discussed how to prep for the seed-starting process. Now that you’ve gathered your clean containers and your seed-starting mix, let’s move on to what to do when you actually sow those seeds. Read Your Seed Packet Seed packets are invaluable pieces of information. They may have a ...
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 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 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. ...
Read More | Just VeggiesRoot maggots and turnips—or root maggots and anything you’re about to eat—are not words that should go together. I have had very little experience in growing turnips, with just one previous crop of pure-white turnips that were meant to be harvested quite young, about an inch in diameter. I guess I pulled that crop before ...
Read More | Just VeggiesHaving grubs in the vegetable garden is a new experience for me. At my home in the country, grubs are all over the lawn, which I completely expected. But I didn’t expect them in a patch of fallow dirt that had been the previous owner’s (not very productive) vegetable patch. I noted the grubs in ...
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