As the July sun blazes down, you often think that planting is done for the year, but July is definitely not too late to plant garden vegetables and ornamentals, in fact the heat of summer can be a great time to sow a new crops as we make the most of …
It is exciting to see your germinating carrots popping out of the ground and grow into healthy, bushy greens. But what is going on below the surface? Carrots are easy to grow and can be harvested at any time during their cycle, but it’s important to know when they’re ready …
As fall approaches, many of us watch with trepidation as our vines are loaded with green tomatoes that are slowly ripening. Especially in northern climates, it is often difficult to squeeze a decent tomato harvest into the short season. In most cases, tomatoes are slow to ripen on the vine …
Yellow and orange tomatoes provide the two-fold benefit of being beautiful to look at and delicious to eat. You may not know that they also typically have a lower acid content than red tomato varieties, making them more adaptable for different culinary uses and the best choice for those with …
Tomatoes famously come in a huge assortment of shapes and sizes, with over 10,000 varieties to experiment with. For those home gardeners that live in more Northern, cooler climates, you may struggle to find the perfect tomato cultivars to grow in your area whose season isn’t cut short of a …
Rhubarb is an easy growing, cool-season vegetable that should have a spot in every home garden. Despite being used in countless desserts, rhubarb is actually a vegetable and this hardy perennial will give you several harvests each year. But, before you take your pickers and head to the garden, it’s …
Brandywine tomatoes have been one of the most famous and beloved tomato cultivars for the last century. Their size, flavor, and juiciness are all part of what makes them so popular, especially now that they have been bred into a whole family of different colors. If you are eager to …
Is frost approaching, but your tomatoes aren’t turning red on the vine? Never fear. You can pick your unripe tomatoes and ripen them them off the vine. While the most delicious tomato is home-grown and ripened on the vine, this is not always a reality, especially if you live in …
Have you gone into your garden on a hot summer’s day and found your once-perfect broccoli has suddenly shot up scraggly stems that have started to flower? If so, then your broccoli has bolted, where they start growing tall and flowering can occur early on instead of growing larger heads …
Deer are a serious problem for gardens, because these uninvited four legged guests eat away at flowers, leaves and young branches of vegetables, decorative plants and even herbs sometimes. But when it comes to herbs, they are not our cervine visitors, and there are quite a few that stags, does and …
