Considering starting seeds for your vegetable garden this year? If you’re one of the millions of people who took up gardening as the pandemic wore on into its first month of lockdown, you may have begun your gardening experience on fly. This year, however, you have the opportunity to be a bit more planful about ...
Read More | Just VeggiesI don't have a lot of experience in successful vegetable gardening. What experience I do have often ends in "...and then the bugs /deer /rabbits /raccoons /turtles /opossums /moles /gophers ate them." So I guess I could say I have a lot of failed vegetable gardening experience. This year I decided to try something a ...
Read More | Wildlife Gardening JournalYou should have a soil test of your vegetable garden’s soil. Maybe you bought a new home, or maybe you are changing the location of your garden to another spot in your yard. Maybe you’ve never ever had the soil tested even though you’ve been gardening in the same spot for years and years and ...
Read More | Just VeggiesThe world of spinach has just expanded for me to include an edible green called Okinawa Spinach. But I want to be clear from the start: It’s not a true spinach at all, in that it doesn’t belong in the genus Spinacia. If you’d like to define the general term of spinach as an edible ...
Read More | Just VeggiesI’ve previously written a feature post here on Planter’s Place about growing your own veggies indoors. One of the techniques I mention is regrowing leftover veggies ends and tops and discarded seeds and pits. The goal is to essentially recreate the veggie you happen to be using in the kitchen. Wouldn’t you know, someone went ...
Read More | Just VeggiesI don’t often talk about vegetable gardening with children, likely because I don’t have children myself. As an outsider in that realm, my only association with children and vegetables is that the kids don’t eat them. At least that’s what the TV commercials would have you believe. So pile up the chicken nuggets and fries ...
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