When I was young – though I still consider myself fairly young – my mom grew a lush, vibrant garden in our backyard. I would help her pick vegetables once or twice a year, but arugula harvests were a completely different story; we gathered those greens much more frequently. I was curious why this…
I remember back in my younger days, I first got the taste of how difficult it is to grow cabbages. Fungal issues, pest damage, and poor head formation were constant hurdles. Those difficult experiences taught me that cultivating cabbages requires a lot of patience and resilience, shaping my journey as a gardener. Now that I…
Although making plant pairings in your garden is up to you and how you want it, some combinations are just time-proven and have always worked. I remember when I first heard the concept of plant pairings from my gardening enthusiast uncle, I paired spinach with beets in my backyard and the results were…well…pretty terrible and…
Somewhere around last summer, I decided to try planting something new in my backyard vegetable garden, and, after a little brainstorming, this something new was…. Broccoli. Frankly, I planted the vegetable with some high hopes and eagerness to see beautiful broccoli heads and harvest them. Weeks passed, but all I ever met with was utter…
Growing up, my mom had the most thriving garden in the entire neighborhood, and broccoli was her favorite. I still remember that day when she excitedly told me about little green broccoli heads forming in the garden, only to find them bolting a few days later. The look of disappointment and sadness on my mom’s…
Last summer, I spotted unsettling yellow discoloration on the cabbages in my backyard and felt a wave of anxiety wash over me. Frankly, it was more than just a pang of worry; it felt like the culmination of my hard work was slipping away into nothingness. Here’s the fun part though: this year’s harvest emerged…