Growing food in containers is simple and gaining popularity. Above all, vegetable gardening isn’t new or hard. Follow my tips for an easy, calming and reliable way to provide healthy food for your family. This is victory gardening in new ways, for modern times. Growing Vegetables in Water. You're looking at a big fan of hydroponics. ...
Read More | Container Corner“Vegetables that can look as beautiful as my flowers? Are you sure? I have my doubts.” That’s essentially the conversation I had recently with a new flower-gardening friend. She had never grown vegetables before and wasn’t about to start. “Why?” I asked. Because veggies aren’t pretty. She didn’t say it that way exactly, but that ...
Read More | Just VeggiesI’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 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 VeggiesThis year’s gardening season has been pretty successful. We’ve had the right balance of rain and sun. I’ve applied fertilizer routinely, so the plants look robust. The tomatoes have especially benefited from two applications of a tomato-specific fertilizer. And most of the pests have been kept away by regular, sometimes daily, application of the Captain ...
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