My love for eggplant is a recent thing, and thanks to All-America Selections, one of their 2022 AAS Winners for 2022, and eggplant variety named Icicle, I will be growing a very cool white-skinned version of this vegetable next summer. Icicle Description As I said, Eggplant Icicle, from the breeders at Known-You Seed America Corporation, ...
Read More | Just VeggiesMy mostly-cleaned-up fall vegetable garden awaits one last task—applying biochar. What’s biochar? Great question. Let me tell you all about it. What Is Biochar? Biochar is a 100% pure carbon that has been burned in the absence of oxygen. It’s as burned as burned can be. This material’s secret power is that it holds moisture ...
Read More | Just VeggiesI don’t usually get excited about cucumbers. I have three reasons why not: 1) The plants usually take up way too much room in my garden, 2) the fruit ends up being way too big and seedy, and 3) other than using in a tzatziki sauce or making my mom’s old-school cucumber salad, I can’t ...
Read More | Just VeggiesI have a population of earwigs eating its way through my garden and I didn’t even know it. Each morning I would walk out to my garden—about 50 yards from my door—and see that the leaves of my Swiss chard, beets and pepper plants had new dime-sized holes in them. Each subsequent day the holes ...
Read More | Just VeggiesThe “small-framed” new Patio Delight tomato from Burpee may be compact, but believe me, it checks off all the must-haves that most home gardeners are looking for in a tomato. Now, it’s not an heirloom, but that is not a box that requires checking in my book. Heirlooms can be rangy (i.e. leggy and flailing ...
Read More | Just VeggiesMy brother called me in early spring and said, “I am transplanting beets from seed starts this year, in order to get a good early crop.” My response? “It’s not gonna work.” I was adamant. “Not. Going. To. Work.” Guess how this situation turns out. Exactly. He had an excellent crop of beets. From transplants. ...
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