For the richest, most flavorful sauce, just any old plum tomato won’t do. A few years back I decided to try the best of them (according to various sources) for side by side comparison. You can read about the good, the bad, and the ugly — well, not the ugly — in my latest blog post:
The teen years are turbullent years. And what’s a parent to do? Here are a couple of plants that should ease things along. But how? You’ll have to read the whole post.
Is bigger better when it comes to vegetables? Is smaller better? Those tasty baby carrots, for example. What the story on baby or small vegetables, besides their cuteness. Check it out in my latest blog post.
Dayflower elicits both pity and some fear. Why? Read my latest blog post. What about its more accepted and not at all to be pitied kin? Read my latest blog post.
Do you miss spinach in summer? I don’t. Learn how you can grow “spinach” all summer long by reading my latest blog post.
It’s cuttings season! Actually one of many, but half-woody this time of year here on the farmden. This week’s blog post discusses hormones and their use as well as — and more important — good practices for multiplying plants with stem cuttings.
The garden and landscape are olfactory delights, have been since early spring, are now, and will continue going forward. In my latest blog post, I write about some of these scents, including what’s currently perfuming the air. Also, my favorite of all, a plant found found growing 200 years ago in a garden in Persia — and, for the last 30 years in my garden.
You don’t grow sweet corn!? Then you’re missing one of summer’s pleasures, that of stepping outdoors to your “patch” and selecting a dead ripe ear to bite into right then and there, or to roast or steam. There are so many kinds of sweet corn and varieties of each kind, many better than what you can purchase because they handle well commercially. Check out my latest blog post for the kinds of sweet corn, my favorite kind and variety, and how I — and you — can grow them.
Bored with marigolds? There are some interesting kin of the common French or African species. A couple have leaves with an anise smell. But my favorite of all is . . . well, you’ll have to read this week’s blog post:
With blossoms past on fruit trees, you’ve got to thin — not you, the fruits. Doing so brings many benefits, which I recount in my latest blog post. The post also tells how to do it, how much to do, and when to do it (not just now). Read about thinning here:
