If you’re not already growing marigolds in your vegetable garden, you need to be! Marigolds have long been used to organically manage common vegetable pests, and science is beginning to prove what many gardeners have always believed–that marigolds are distasteful to a number of bad bugs and crawling nuisances. French and African marigolds produce a…
With all the information out there, situating raised beds can be a little overwhelming. I’ve used raised beds for years, and more often than not I’ll place them anywhere I can that gets full sun. Recently I’ve learned that there’s a science to orienting raised beds for maximum light and that’s changed my whole perspective…
I gardened for years before I started using a grow light. When I finally did invest in a grow light–the SpiderFarmer SF1000D – it revolutionized my growing experience. My plants started growing exponentially, but I quickly realized that you can have too much of a good thing. While some growers have differing opinions on the…
I grew up in my grandparents’ garden, and I quickly became acquainted with the long, gangly tomato vines that seem to sprawl everywhere. The tomato vines were never pretty, but the fruits always were. Even looking at them would make my mouth water with the thought of a fresh tomato sandwich or a handful of cherry tomatoes to snack on.
You might be wondering if a tomato dubbed “dwarf” is really worth staking. If the vines only get a few feet tall, do you really need to worry about trellising it like you’d trellis a full-size indeterminate tomato? Most dwarf tomatoes will need staking before they reach maturity and start yielding full-size fruit. A tomato…
So you decided to plant potatoes this year! You’re excited and confident until you go to pull your seed potatoes out of storage and…they’re shriveled. Does that mean they’ve all gone bad? Will squishy, wrinkled potatoes actually produce healthy potato plants? Yes, you can plant shriveled potatoes. Even though shriveled seed potatoes don’t look appetizing,…