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 […]
1. What is “organic gardening” anyway? Organic gardening is often defined in negative terms, as in “gardening without the use of synthetic pesticides or fertilizers.” In fact, organic gardening is much more than that.
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