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Squashing Misconceptions
Probably the most common incorrect information that is being shared is the idea of squash and cross pollination. Although we have posted about this before, it’s a good time to explain it again....
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Squash Bugs
Although prevalent in many gardens, we never had squash bugs before. It was only recently in fact that I remarked to Mandolin how lucky we have been not to have them, or worse, squash vine borers. I...
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12 Plus Veggies You Don’t Need to Harvest Before the Frost
Sweet peas and fall leaves. When still new to gardening, we thought everything that wasn’t a perennial plant had to be harvested before a frost. As it turns out, that isn’t the case. Although the...
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Jones’ Laws of Gardening
if something can grow wrong, it will • A passing shower, desperately needed, will do just that. • When in doubt, if you water your garden- it will rain. Conversely, if you don’t, it won’t. • If your...
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6 Ways to Protect Your Plants
You put a lot of work into growing food, so it is all the more difficult to bear when nature hampers or even destroys your efforts. Here are some ways you can protect your plants from what life throws...
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4 Ways to Support Tomatoes… Well, actually 5.
Every gardener knows at least one way to support the most anticipated crop of the season. Many have their favorite way. Here’s a few options you may have heard of, and one I bet you didn’t: 1. Stakes...
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2 Ways to Thwart Birds
The mother lode. There are two problems with birds in our roadside garden this time of year. The first is that they are stealing seeds. Specifically, squash seeds. They must be attracted by the newly...
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Winterizing the Garden
It’s spring in Australia, and just cool enough now that our southern neighbors are starting their fall gardens. Areas north have already received snow. Here in Northeastern Pa. it’s time to put most...
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The Colors of Vegetables – Is it Just Eye Candy?
You probably have heard terms like phytonutrients and antioxidants used when people are talking about nutrition, or maybe when they are trying to sell you a food product. It is part of the same idea...
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FAQ: When to Harvest Vegetables?
Not yet…. For new gardeners and also for anyone growing something new, when to harvest vegetables and other common edibles is a big question. Too soon, and it may taste like grocery store produce. Too...
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6 Most Common Tomato Problems
Every person that grows food probably grows tomatoes, so we do get asked a lot about the common tomato problems they encounter. Here are the most FAQ’s: 1. What is this black rotten spot on my tomato?...
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How to Avoid the Need for Insecticides
Photo credit: Tom Moon Consider: Insecticides kill bugs. Good bugs as well as bad bugs. Organic insecticides kill bugs. Good bugs and bad bugs. Insecticides should be avoided, and by all means when...
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Calling it Quits
Often there comes a time when you realize it is better to pull plants and replant something else. Such was the case this year with our potatoes. We got them planted on time, but the spring turned back...
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2 Simple Things About Cross Pollination
There are a lot of misconceptions, no pun intended, out there about plants and cross pollination. Here’s the truth: 1. Plants can only cross with others of the same species, literally. 2. It will only...
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Fall in the Northeast Garden pt. 2
Our roadside gardens become completely inaccessible in the winter for us, mainly because they sit atop a small hill that can become dangerous when the wintry weather hits. In these areas we do not...
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Don’t Be Afraid of Your Vegetables
Or fruit, for that matter. If you are new to growing food, you will find that what you harvest doesn’t necessarily look like what you see at the grocery store. The reason is simple: Produce that...
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Maintaining a Seed Stash
So you have decided to build up a supply of seeds. That’s great! We’ve looked at getting started before, and discussed saving seeds as well. But we have not written about one question we get asked a...
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Getting Serious About Growing Tomatoes
I mentioned earlier that this past summer was not our best gardening season. It was in fact the second worst ever, which is saying a lot. And our tomato harvest was not spared. Between the late spring...
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A Gardener’s Dilemma – Pineberry
The wonderful hybrid (not genetically engineered) Pineberry is a variety of strawberry somewhat new to our gardens. We purchased only one plant last spring, they can be somewhat expensive after all,...
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5 Things to Know About Plant Pollination
Pea Flower Knowing how plants are pollinated can help you get a better harvest. The most confusion we see about pollination centers around the terms self-pollination and cross-pollinated. Here’s the...
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