Climate change is impacting your garden and your gardening activities in multiple ways. You may have noticed some signs of this already—your cold-weather greens lasting through the winter, for instance, or your garlic sprouting early. The warming climate’s impacts can be and are more insidious than destructive storms and continent-wide drought, and they are appearing ...
Read More | Just VeggiesYou typically see a lot of trend lists coming out this time of year, even in the topic of gardening. I, for one, usually decline to spread these trends because I have always been a firm believer in the phrase “you do you.” However, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS) recently shared its top gardening trends ...
Read More | Just VeggiesGrowing parsley in winter is one of the surprising gardening delights of the season. I was reminded of this during a recent walk through my neighborhood on a 32F day. In fact, it may have been colder than that. The otherwise brownish-hued community garden contained pops of green emitting from both this resilient herb and ...
Read More | Just VeggiesDon’t you just love a tomato that is something other than red? Add stripes or some sort of ombre color gradient to the skin—better yet, make them change from green to purple to orange!—and the anticipation of eating that fruit rises a hundredfold. These novelties just make the tomato all that more interesting in my ...
Read More | Just VeggiesWe’re talking about indeterminate tomatoes in this edition of Just Veggies. You may recall that in the last Just Veggies we explained what the “determinate” on the plant tag means, usually in reference to tomatoes. Quick review and in a nutshell: Determinate essentially means the tomato grows to a certain height, stops growing and puts ...
Read More | Just VeggiesI used vertical supports to hold my four zucchini plants off the ground this summer. I had given up using tomato cages a few years ago for several reasons. But, I still had the cages hanging around the garden. Employing them as supports for my zucchini was one of those “Huh, I’ve never done this ...
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