In the garden, Verticillium Wilt (VW) can affect potatoes, peppers, tomatoes, eggplant, some cole crops, tomatoes, lettuce, strawberries, cucurbits, artichokes, avocados, peaches, nectarines, caneberries, and apricots. It can also affect landscape plants and… Continue reading
Double-Digging. For those of you not quite familiar with double-digging, let me fill you in. Double-digging is a dirty, sweaty, tiring, backbreaking way to prepare your garden bed for planting. I hate thinking… Continue reading
A last word (for now) about companion plantings: If you have relied heavily in the past on store-bought fertilizers and pesticides to keep your garden in check, and want to get away from… Continue reading
Bio-intensive; companion plantings; water scarcity; those terms kept running through my head as I plotted out bed No. 2. Although important to keep them in mind so that I can give my garden… Continue reading
The days are getting warmer where I live. I’m antsy to start planting, but the nighttime temperatures aren’t quite warm enough yet. In the meantime, I’ve been plotting out my garden on a… Continue reading
