As I was contemplating some helpful tips for a really great vegetable garden, it occurred to me that tending a garden is similar to tending a relationship. I will outline some helpful vegetable gardening tips and see if you see the connection between a thriving healthy crop of vegetables and a thriving healthy relationship. Before ...
Back in college, I lived in a mobile home for a spell and grew a lot of my own food crops to make ends meet. Although my lot was rather pint-sized, I still managed to grow enough vegetables to keep us well supplied in fresh produce through the summer and into the early fall. Vegetable ...
Vegetable gardening in Ohio can prove to be quite a task. Even for those who have a green thumb fighting with the dirt, weather and even animals can prove to be quite a challenge. I love to raise my own vegetables and nothing brings me more joy then having a vegetable garden that produces a ...
Container vegetable gardening is a great option for growing vegetables and herbs for those with insufficient land area or bad soil conditions. Plants can be raised in containers in a patio or by the window sill as long as they have good sunlight and water and their roots have room to grow. Tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, ...
There was a time when everyone who had the space to do it raised a vegetable garden. If it wasn’t for the gardens and the food canned or preserved in the summer many would not have it through the winters. Now today in the world we live in it is much easier to go to ...
These five homemade insecticides are easy to make and totally safe to use in your vegetable garden. When mixing homemade insect sprays, use warm water and apply them to plants when temperatures are between 40-90 degrees. Some oil based sprays can burn certain plants, especially during hot summer temperatures. Before applying sprays to the entire ...
As a horticulturist, I try to learn as much as I can about the place I’m going to be gardening. After 50 years of gardening in the Southern U.S., you’d think I’d know a thing or two about southern gardening. I came to South Florida thinking it would be a snap to grow things. I ...
Even though it’s been below freezing at night, I’ve continued to grow vegetables in my portable solar greenhouse. A portable, solar greenhouse is a temporary greenhouse that can be used to accelerate the growth of bedding plants and veggie starts in the early spring. It relies on radiant heat to keep plants warm and gives ...
The kitchen garden of yesteryear is making its comeback. You have probably kicked around the idea of vegetable gardening yourself a time or two. In fact, you might have tried setting up your own vegetable gardens already but met with failure, brown leaves and odd insects. Growing tomatoes, onions, garlic and peas does not have ...
