Just Veggies

Snails and Slugs in the Vegetable Garden

Snails and slugs can do some serious damage to a crop just emerging from the ground. As you can probably guess, this is the harm I’ve most recently experienced in my own garden. I’ve written several times this season about my insect barrier. It’s been awesome at keeping flea beetles and leaf miners away from ...

Mini Squash Butterbaby

I was chatting with a gardener, cook and good friend of mine last fall about the latest trends in gardening. We both agreed that smaller versions of unwieldy vegetables are getting more attention by the folks who breed and bring new vegetable varieties to market. During my annual April trip to California, I saw quite ...

Why Cauliflower Becomes Stunted

I learned a new tidbit of information about cauliflower this week. I said to myself, “Well, that explains a lot”. The issue concerned stunted cauliflower and one of its causes. Dehydration! Who says an old gardener can’t learn new things? Why Cauliflower Stops Growing Last week I ran into the owner of a Dutch ...