How To Grow Vegetables and Vegetable Gardening Tips
The dog days of summer can be vicious to many vegetable garden plants. When thermometers start reaching the century mark, and stay there for several consecutive days, it takes a beating on many plants in your vegetable garden.Although it is extremely difficult to completely fend off those high temperatures, there are a few methods you can use to help ease their affects.Here are a few important things you can implement in your vegetable … [Read more...]
Properly watering tomatoes is arguably one of the most important steps for growing plump, juicy tomatoes in the vegetable garden.Watering tomatoes too much or not enough can destroy or limit production and can contribute to increasing the chances for disease. Watering tomatoes deep is the best way to properly water your tomatoes.What does watering tomato plants deep mean?It is just what it sounds like - watering tomato plants at … [Read more...]
Have you ever gone out to the garden, and found a ripening tomato that gets your mouth watering, only to find that it is cracked or split open? The first reaction could be disappointment, followed by anger. Your mind flashes through possible scenarios that involve animal pests, insect pests, or maybe some agitating neighborhood kid that has sabotaged your great looking tomato. Actually, none of these are the culprit of your tomato … [Read more...]
While shopping at my local Home Depot Saturday, I came across a very interesting product - Terracycle Garden Fertilizer. It stuck out as an interesting product because it was packaged in what looked like two reused 20 oz. soft drink bottles. After reading the label on the bottles, I realized that this is a wonderful idea. They were indeed two reused soft drink bottles that contained liquified worm poop to be used as a flower or vegetable garden … [Read more...]
About a year ago I was speaking with a friend of mine, and he mentioned dry farming. My first reaction to this was "Dry wha...?". He began to explain what dry farming was and the methodology behind it. To be honest, I was very skeptical and really thought he was pulling my leg.I jumped on the internet and did a little research. Come to find out dry farming tomatoes is a real practice, mostly used in the Southwest part of the country. I guess … [Read more...]
Watering the vegetable garden can be a time consuming, monotonous activity for most gardeners. Getting up at the crack of dawn to water vegetable plants can get down right tiring after a while, not to mention dragging a garden hose all over creation. However, there are some nifty projects that you can implement within your garden that are very simple and inexpensive, and may save you some watering heartache.Install A Watering Well... or … [Read more...]
I know this sounds like an odd topic because soaker hoses are suppose to have holes, right? The whole point of a soaker hose is to leak water. Well, there are moments when a large hole can develop in a soaker hose, and create something that looks more like Old Faithful in your garden.This happened to me recently as I peered out into the garden one day and saw water shooting up about 3 feet in the air. The bad thing about the situation was … [Read more...]
I'm intrigued by heirloom vegetables, and crazy about sharing my passions with others.
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