It’s that time of year when the spring seed catalogs start to arrive during the darkest, dreariest days of winter. As your have spring dreams during cold days and nights, take a little time to do some planning for the upcoming gardening season. Make a Plan To start your spring garden planning, begin with a ...
Squash is one of my favorite garden plants. I love planting it, it’s easy to get to grow and once it starts growing it is a prolific producer, making it a very productive crop. There are several varieties of squash that can be grown, summer squash, winter squash, acorn squash, zucchini, the list goes on ...
According to the Virginia Cooperative Extension, butternut squash is classified as a “Winter squash,” as opposed to a “Summer squash.” As a general rule, summer squash – yellow crook-necked squash and zucchini, for example – are harvested when still slightly tender and actually immature, 50 to 60 days from planting. Winter squash require a much ...
Organic gardening yields me vegetables in great abundance for my family, to share with friends, or to freeze for later use. No matter how green my gardening practices are, I cannot grow vegetables without water. The drought of 2012 affected my vegetable garden, reducing the harvest of tomatoes and zucchini, which were the primary vegetables ...
There are so many benefits to having your own vegetable garden. Not only is the produce much more tasty than anything you can find in the grocery store, it’s packed with much more nutrition, and can help stretch a grocery budget by a significant degree. For parents whose children are fussy eaters, gardening is a ...
Squash was used extensively in North American by American Indians prior to the arrival of Europeans to the continent Squash belongs to the gourd family Cucurbitaceae. This family also contains other important vegetables, such as cucumber, melons and pumpkins. Actually there is much controversy as to what is a squash and that is a pumpkin ...
