Like I did in my recent Tomatoes and the Victory Garden 2.0 post, I’m riffing off of the National Garden Bureau’s continuing series of articles, their latest being a Q&A with their NGB Experts that is all about peppers. The Victory Garden 2.0 project, as I’ve said before, is aimed at helping new pandemic-prompted gardeners ...
Read More | Just VeggiesA new rhubarb called KangaRhu is a recipient of a 2020 Green Thumb Award given out by the Direct Gardening Association. The awards are chosen by garden writers who judge garden plants and products on uniqueness, technological innovation, ability to solve a garden problem and their appeal to gardeners. It makes me happy to see ...
Read More | Just VeggiesPumpkin Blue Prince, a 2020 National Winner in All-America Selections’ Edible category, is certainly deserving of both its AAS Winner status and of its “prince” name. What makes it “princely”? It’s a benefit for home gardeners when a vegetable variety checks off both the “great taste” and “decorative” boxes, as Pumpkin Blue Prince does. It’s ...
Read More | Just VeggiesAll of a sudden, summer is finished. We always take our vacation in September which stretches out the summer season for us. I have always stopped spraying and deadheading my roses on September 1st, but last year while we were away, my roses were attacked by tobacco bud worms and my whole fall bloom was ...
Read More | Everything RosesRatooning your crops midseason is one way to encourage a second round of growth—and a second round of harvest—from your garden veggies. Yes, I spelled “ratooning” correctly. When I first saw this new-to-me word, I thought it was “racooning,” which I do hope isn’t an actual thing. So, if ratooning is not racooning, what exactly ...
Read More | Just VeggiesA Fungus Among Us… We have had an extreme shortage of sunny days this spring. With just days until summer arrives, nothing seems to have changed too much. Our roses have been growing, reaching for the cloud-hiding sun, and the stems are a little stretched. It has been cooler than normal, as well, and lots ...
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