by Daisy | Jun 12, 2009 | Garden, Intermediate Gardening
The cool thing about this plan, other than the companion planting and spacing, is the use of our “tater boxes” which temporarily deepen any raised bed–allowing your to do this in a new bed next year. You will need: 1 electric drill or hammer 4...
by Ivory Soap | Jun 4, 2009 | Garden, Permaculture
picture by Julie Interplanting sounds fancy, but it just means planting different things together. Like, instead of planting only corn, you planted spinach in between the corn stalks. And the corn shades heat-hating spinach from the hot summer sun. That would be the...
by Daisy | Jun 1, 2009 | Beginner Gardens, Garden
Start reading about tomato pests and diseases and you begin to wonder how any tomato ever makes it at all. After weeks of episodic rain my tomato plants are growing like kudzu, but I noticed something this morning that sent me looking for fungicide recipes: yellowing...
by Daisy | May 28, 2009 | Garden, Intermediate Gardening
SUCCESSION PLANTING is the term gardeners use to refer to planting something else in place when a previous crop is all finished.To pull this off effectively, you need a few things:1. A diagram of your garden with zones marked off and numbered/lettered/named for old...
by Daisy | May 27, 2009 | Garden, Garden Hacks
picture from Tomatocasual.com Sometimes our plants go yellow. Or brown on the leaf edges. Or just generally unhappy in a well-watered, pest-free, yet-some-how-still-unhappy way. The plant is probably hungry. You can go CRAZY trying to figure out if it’s missing...
by Daisy | May 25, 2009 | Garden, Garden Hacks
See those aphids? They killed that plant. But I mixed up some voodoo and I haven’t seen one since. Allium Tea 6 cloves garlic 1 onion 1qt warm water 3T liquid soap* (not detergent) Buzz first three in blender. Add soap. Steep overnight and strain. Spray directly...
