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,…
Manure is one of nature’s best gifts to gardeners, but with the environmental impact of livestock farming under the spotlight, we can’t help but wonder – is there any way we can move away from using manure in the garden? In this article, we’ll share our favourite manure alternatives, tell you what works and what…
If you’re new to gardening, you’re probably interested in using organic quality compost or manure, but not sure which to choose. Making your own compost is confusing enough, but when you add manures and fertilizers to the mix, there’s an overload of information. So what is compost exactly, and how is it different from manure?…
The cheapest way to buy manure is to buy it straight from the farm, but then you have a lot of fresh manure on your hands that you need to age and store properly. There are loads of conflicting theories about ageing and curing manure. Can you use old cow manure that’s been sitting for…
Manure burn is one of the most common problems in the vegetable garden. We think we’re doing our vegetables a favour, but many vegetables don’t like manure. In this article we’ll share our experience of vegetables that suffer from manure burn, and when to avoid using manure entirely.