Planting Bigger Vegetable Garden Because Of COVID-19 Coronavirus?
How many of you have decided to expand or grow more in your vegetable gardens this year because of COVID-19 Coronavirus implications?
Fresh Delicious Peppers During The Middle Of Winter! Oh My!
I’m so glad that I grew lots of peppers last season. Check out my homemade omelet stuffed with delicious homegrown peppers — during the middle of winter!
How Did Your Garden Grow? 2019 End Of Season
Success or Failures while gardening this 2019 season? Here are a few of my own examples. What about you? Anything you care to share with the rest of us?
Self Sufficient Food Production | Crop Failure Risk
Very wet weather and flooding has devastated crops in the MidWest and other regions. Apply this scenario to self-sufficiency SHTF preparedness “what if”…
Lots of Ways to Tie Up & Support Tomato Plants
A list of methods to Tie and Support tomato plants – with lots of additional suggestions from our readers. Lets hear your favorite ways to support tomatoes!
Indoor Winter Gardening
Have any of you tried indoor winter gardening? Indoor plants will not only improve your mood during the cold winter months, but if you plant and succeed at indoor vegetable gardening – wouldn’t that be nice? The two big issues with winter and gardening are COLD and SUNLIGHT. We can overcome the cold weather…
Tomato Rot On The Bottom ( What Is It? ) “Blossom End Rot”
(A picture of my tomatoes with rotten bottoms (blossom end rot) ) A surprising number of my tomatoes this year had developed what looks like tomato rot on the bottom. I’ve never seen this before. What happens is the bottom part of the tomato starts to appear sunken and dark. It literally looks like it’s…
When The Garden Fails While You Need It Most
Guest article, by ‘NRP’ I am an avid Gardener, spending HUGE amounts of time and sweat equity into the fruits of my labor. Having many of times seeing my investment go completely Belly-Up, yielding low or no produce. Bugs infesting EVERYTHING, extreme heat and drought conditions, Seed failure, Poor Soil conditions, and yes even my…
Ways How To Keep Weeds Down In Your Garden
Gardening is fun. EXCEPT for those darn weeds that keep coming up! Weeding is easier to deal with in a raised garden bed (less bending over), especially if the raised bed is 2 feet tall or thereabouts! But what about a regular garden? Lots more bending! Not only that, but the larger the garden the…
Vegetable Garden Yields To Expect On Average Per 100′ Row
How much will I get from my vegetable garden? If my garden rows are ‘x’ feet long (see chart below) how much yield should I expect? If you’re trying to figure out how much yield that you might get from your vegetable garden, I found a list from LSU AgCenter. I found the garden yield…