Edible Gardening

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How to Protect a Row of Seedlings from a Late Freeze

I live in Michigan, we are not blessed with the longest growing season known to man. So we try to stretch that, and to stretch it we need to be able to protect plants from late frosts or Freezes as late as late May if we’re really unlucky.
You can put in a hoophouse or something [...]

Kudos to Stark Bros

My first plant of the year has arrived, a ‘Goldcot’ Apricot Dwarf from Stark Bros, and I need to sing their praises.
I’ve talked up Stark Bros before, mentioning them as my favorite place to get fruit trees, but they beat themselves in quality this time. This dwarf apricot was around 4 feet tall, and nicely [...]

Early Onions and the Miracle of Microclimates

I’m a little sad. I read these garden blogs of people to the south of me, even one state south like Indiana, and low and behold, they are gardening! They have things blooming, they are planting, and woe is me for I am not.
It isn’t that I’m even in northern Michigan, I could drive south [...]

Aerogarden International Basil

I’m still not a big fan of my aerogarden (see my aerogarden review. It would seem to me that mine has a defect as the back right pod, no matter what I plant in it, NEVER performs well. Also, the arm height for the light is woefully too short, I know I can buy an [...]

Garden for Dollars, Grow Asparagus

One of my favorite things about gardening is that you’re making free food. Well, not exactly free is it? Anymore than anything is free. You spend the time, you buy the gardening supplies, fertilizer, etc. Many people probably do garden at a loss, I’m sure I do, but I enjoy it, so there is that.
There [...]

Butternut Squash & Squirrels

So, I increased the amount of space devoted to edibles this year in order to save money. Involved in this was picking new spots that are NOT garden beds to plant things to see if they’ll grow.
I planted some squash on the south side of my house near my raised beds (but not within them) [...]

Bean Leef Beetle Damage

I can’t catch a break with my bean plants. Earlier in the year it was slugs, which I handily dispatched with a cold beer. This time however, I have bean leaf beetles, and the solution is not so simple.

I know I have bean leaf beetles because instead of having large holes, I have many many [...]

How to Grow Raspberries

I’ve blogged about raspberries many times before, which you’ll see in the “related posts” links at the bottom of this post. But I don’t know if I ever really went into depth as to how I grow them. In anycase, now is the time.
First, a little bragging. This picture was taken like the second week [...]

Zucchini Plants Dying from Squash Vine Borer

So, I tossed two of my zucchini plants in my compost tumbler yesterday, when pulling them up I didn’t need to uproot them, the squash borers had basically destroyed the main stem to the point that the top of the plant was hardly connected to the roots at all.
I knew it was squash borer [...]

Escaped Asparagus

I thought this was internesting. So we have this wetland preserve thing behind our house, it is encased on 4 sides by suburban sprawl, including major 4 or 5 lane streets, it is probably around 1 square mile altogether, with a walking path running through it. There is a lot of wildlife that call it [...]

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