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Clear Weeds & Plants, Then Add…Organic Matter at the Very Least Maple leaves already dapple the ground in red and yellow (early this year), one morning showed off what was to come with frost on the windshield, and each day the sun each hangs lower in the sky, yet I’m getting ready for spring planting. […]
One of the best things about no-till gardening is not having to till. The soil of my vegetable garden hasn’t been disturbed for over 2 decades. Besides avoiding the hassle of tilling, not having to till makes for quicker and easier planting. Today, for instance, I planned to clear a bed of harvested edamame plants […]
You’d think, this time of year, that all I’d be doing is sowing seeds and transplanting small and large plants. I am. But I’m also turning compost piles, getting ready to use that “black gold” this autumn. Why now? So the stuff has time to mellow and to make space for new compost piles that […]
Growing winter squashes and melons has always been an iffy proposition for me. I try to keep my vegetable garden intensively planted and neat, so the question is where to direct these plants’ long, wandering vines. In the past, I’ve grown squashes inside the garden along the fence, up which the vines could climb. […]
The fungi that cause damping off are everywhere, just waiting to topple seedlings! The why’s and the wherefore’s of controlling this horrendous disease are the topic of my latest blog post.
Bags of potting mixes now line shelves of garden centers, building supply stores, even food market. And with good reason. It’s time to grow seedlings and repot house plants, and some sort of potting mix is just the ticket for these plants; straight garden soil, even good garden soil, is unsuitable in pots. What’s really in these bags of potting mix? Can you make your own mix? I (figuratively) dig into these bags as well a provide my own (not so) secret recipe for potting soil in my latest blog post.
The soil offers a number of services to plants. Get the soil right and plants will thrive. What the soil offers plants and what needs done to the soil are the topics detailed in my latest blog post,
Most people, when they’re ready to plant fruit, plant apple trees. But apples are the hardest fruit to grow over much of the country and that’s mostly because of pest problems. You could spray chemicals. Or you could grow them organically, using various means of keeping the culpable insects and diseases at bay. All covered — you guessed it — in my latest blog post.
The winter garden is more worth a look if it has some things to anchor it, whether they’re arbors, stone walls, evergreens, or dense, deciduous plants. Read about some of what I’ve created serendipitously or planned in my latest blog post.
