Here’s a general rule of thumb in the gardening world: Most plants need around 1 inch of water every week. While this sounds simple enough, it’s hard to know what 1 inch of water looks like. ...
The Ultimate Way to Support Tomato Plants: Florida Weave
It’s not uncommon for me to grow too many tomatoes – WAY too many. Last year I finally made it a point to seriously minimize my supply, mostly to get a good season of crop rotation in. I ...
Get Your Garden Off to the Best Possible Start with a Soil Test
Gardening articles everywhere recommend that you test your soil before doing anything else. And, if your garden is suffering, you’re just starting out as a gardener, or you’re a serial ...
Make These Easy DIY Raised Beds: The Perfect Solution for Veggie Gardening
For the past few years, cucumbers, squash, and zucchini have wilted in my garden – no matter what. My best guess is that my soil is infected with a virus, be it phytophthera or some other ...
Extend the Season and Keep Pests Out with Floating Row Covers
Every gardener out there can benefit from having floating row covers on hand. They’re lightweight, easy to store, and inexpensive. And their uses go well beyond frost protection. Don’t be ...
A-Foraging We Will Go: Berry Edition
I adore my time spent in the garden, but I’m at my happiest rambling through forest and field. Hemlock groves carpeted in moss are home, far as I’m concerned, and the same goes for the aspen trees ...
5 Tips You Need to Navigate Seed Catalogs
In the quiet, post-holiday weeks of winter, nothing livens up a gardener with cabin fever like a fresh-off-the-presses, colorful and enticing seed catalog. This time-honored resource has its ...
USDA Plant Hardiness Zones Have Changed: What You Need to Know
Let's take a little trip back in time... When I was a kid, I celebrated Thanksgiving with unusual aplomb. Part of it was recognizing the few days off from school as a prelude to a longer winter ...
Spray the Day Away: Safe Application of Garden Chemicals and Organic Alternatives
Applying chemicals to the garden and yard can be a tricky thing. Too much and you’ve overdosed the landscape, but too little and you’ve done nothing but waste your money by pouring it down the ...
What to Do When the Top of Your Tree Dies
I don’t know if we’re cursed or what, but we’ve had two trees exhibit a strange, disfiguring phenomenon wherein the top part of the trunk — the “leader” — died, taking with it numerous scaffold ...
