You’ve happily built your compost over time and you’re now anxiously waiting to use it in your garden. But right as you’re about to use it, you notice tons of green sprouts popping out of your compost pile, or worse yet, from the garden beds you’ve spread it on. If this happened to you, you’re…
Arugula (or rocket) is one of the easiest greens you can grow if you’re blessed with long springs and autumns. Sprinkle the seeds in rows, like you would with carrots, or sow arugula in a container and you’ll get a harvest in as little as 40 days. When sowing those tiny arugula seeds, it’s hard…
Growing sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) is easy but getting the amount of crops you expect from them might get a little tricky, especially when attempting to grow them in containers. While regular potatoes might thrive in buckets or grow bags, sweet potatoes require perfect conditions to thrive. I’ve tried many times to grow sweet potatoes…
Can you compost diseased plants, namely, powdery mildew leaves? There are a lot of conflicting answers to this question, but maybe this article can help to clarify some of them using a bit of research and, of course, personal experience. First, let’s look at the compost bin and how it works. Personally, I don’t think…
If this is your first year attempting to grow tomatoes, I get it – pruning can be a confusing topic. When I grew my first outdoors indeterminate tomatoes I did minimal pruning, and was quickly overwhelmed by the amount of growth I had to deal with. To make matters worse, my tomato plants suffered from…
Beans are a common feature in most gardens because they are reasonably tolerant of many conditions and quick and easy to grow. I personally enjoy how fast pole beans climb up their trellis, eagerly watching their progress every day and waiting for those delicious pods to arrive. But while the other vegetables in the garden…