Pollinate Your Tomatoes with a Toothbrush!
Weeks have gone by and your tomatoes still aren’t producing fruit? Or only here and there? Their small yellow flowersContinue Reading
Category: Vegetables
My Potato Plants Aren’t Blooming!
Your neighbor’s potatoes are in full bloom while yours don’t even show the slightest bud. Are they just late orContinue Reading
When to Harvest Your Veggies?
Many experienced gardeners have been growing vegetables for so long they seem to develop a sixth sense as to whenContinue Reading
Dealing with Fruit Drop in Cucurbits
Gardeners often have a problem with fruit drop in squash, cucumbers, melons and other plants of the Cucurbitaceae (cucumber family).Continue Reading
The World’s Smallest Tomato Plant
I was surprised to see a teeny tiny tomato plant (Solanum lycopersicum) in the vegetable garden at Tower Hill Botanical GardenContinue Reading
Tomatoes are Carnivorous
Did you know that the sticky hairs found on the stems of tomato plants are designed to trap small insects?Continue Reading
What to Grow on a Septic Leach Field
Home owners who have a septic leach field (septic drainfield) on their property are often a bit at a lossContinue Reading
Sweet Corn Hates Company
When you sow sweet corn, that is, the corn we eat fresh off the cob, it’s important to always rememberContinue Reading
A Tire Garden for the Far North
In northern regions (and I mean way up north, above the 50th parallel, like in Alaska, the Yukon, Labrador, NorthernContinue Reading
Companion Planting: Myth or Reality?
I no longer believe in companion planting as such. From the mid-1970s through to nearly the end of the 1980s,Continue Reading