Hey it’s Springtime and I am alive!! Actually as you may know, here in Tucson we are generally able to be in the garden all year long, and I have, though there wasn’t much incentive for me to BLOG my winter months so I used the time for some other things, but now… The days […]
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This is my first attempt to grow broccoli and my inspiration and the cultivators were provided by Kathy who seeded, hardened and provided me with instructions for planting and care. I further read that broccoli are heavy feeders and that I should not plant them in ground that had within the previous 4 years hosted […]
It would be ideal, but I don’t have a compost pile. I have field mice and critters that would love a winter home like that, so my options are somewhat narrowed when it comes to adding organic matter back into my garden soil. What I have decided to do is to plant a cover crop. […]
Recently, Lamont lost a pepper plant to blight and he reminded me that the Great Potato Famine of Ireland was caused by blight. Then I read an article mentioning monoculture, which is growing a single crop in the same location year after year. (Polyculture is the healthy rotation or mixing plants together, as in companion […]
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This is a little tidbid I read out of The Vegetable Gardener’s Bible: “Corn has the highest sugar content early in the morning. So pick it then, before it’s warmed by the sun, and refrigerate it in the husk until dinnertime. You’ll get the best tasting corn with the morning harvest.” I wish I […]
It’s just about time now to start our 2nd season, or extended season, or fall planting….whatever….. We should be well into our amending and soil preparation for August planting. I’m ready for some more big ‘ole juicy vine ripe tomatoes, that I’m not finding at the grocery store. Some that have that excellent vine ripe […]
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Thats what the Mars Lander reported. If my garden soil measured that, I’d be in a hurry to set me up some raised beds and not even try to correct that problem. It would be too much to take on, since the acidity or alkalinity of soil has a big impact on our plants ability […]
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Red hybrid earthworms. Each one ingests its weight in organic matter every 24 hours, and excretes highly nutritious fertilizer called castings. These castings are the most perfect plant food known to man and contain 5 times the available nitrogen, 7 times the available phosphorus, 7 times the exchangable magnesium, 11 times the available potash and […]
They did not die! I thought I’d get right to the point. In spite of my bad timing, the peppers that I relocated to a new bed appear that they are going to survive.
Do you enjoy weeding corn? It’s just not as easy as weeding, say, strawberries. I just read an article regarding the use of landscape fabrics between rows of vegetables as weed barriers, an idea I toy with every time I buy a bag of mulch. I may lay that argument with myself to rest now. […]
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