Get your garden summer-ready with easy-to-follow tips for beginner gardeners. This section breaks down the basics for a range of sun-loving veggies.
Are your pepper seeds not germinating, or sprouting erratically? Don’t worry, you’re not alone. Peppers are notoriously hard to germinate because of their desire for tropical conditions. Thanks to years of trial and error, we’ve got some tips and tricks to germinate peppers more effectively, and hopefully some answers as to why your pepper seeds…
When you’re as obsessive over tomatoes as we are, you need to know how to fix a broken tomato stem. Tomatoes are brilliant plants to grow, and any gardener will tell you that homegrown tomatoes taste better, so saving your crop when it’s damaged is essential.
Cucumbers are relatively easy plants to grow, but every so often you’ll find cucumbers not growing straight. Even if you think you’ve done everything right, those perfect show cucumbers have just slipped the net again.
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…
Introduction: What are blackfly? Blackfly is a general classification for over 2,000 different species of flies in the family Simuliidae (which includes aphids, midges, mosquitos, and lakefly). The only trait they share is that they are all black or dark grey. What most gardeners are referring to when they talk about blackfly on broad beans…