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Training and Containing Tomatoes
Six ways to give your tomato plants some support.
Mid summer is ripening on the vine! The tomato plants are bursting with green tomatoes and maybe even have a few ripe ones. They’re hitting a growth spurt, putting on new growth and new flower clusters right and left. If you haven’t [...]
Wanted ASAP: Tomato Sweaters!
Tomatoes love to be warm. Here are some ways to build your own bell cover, row cover or temporary greenhouse on the cheap and keep those tasties toasty.
I love tomatoes…. I love growing them and eating them fresh off the vine. My 5-year-old calls them “sports candy” and eats them, [...]
Growing Corn or Corny Joke?
Photo: Corn Ears
While I’ve tried (half-heartedly) to grow corn in the past, each harvest has been less than exciting. You reap what you sow… and in this case it is true in the literal sense: Each ear had so few kernels that I didn’t even think they’d be worth the [...]
Teasie Peasies
This year we had a very early warm streak, so despite my better judgment, I planted my peas during the last week of February. And, lo, it did freeze not more than a week later. Luckily the sprouts hadn’t emerged from the ground yet.
Generally, after about a week and a [...]
Lettuce… Fail. Forget-Me-Nots… Succeed!
It's a row of lettuce, oh wait… I mean dirt.
Well, you win some; you lose some. And for me this spring, that’s definitely true.
To put it simply, my try at a raised lettuce row failed miserably. I’m pretty sure that I planted directly into the ground too early. [...]
