Subject: Garden Newsletter: Powdery Mildew Treatment and Squash Vine Borer Control
Garden Newsletter: Powdery Mildew Treatment and Squash Vine Borer Control
July 1st, 2018 at 8:51 am ESTHappy Sunday! Sometimes with gardening, there’s the relatively steady ebb and flow. Daily, we survey our patch and sometimes discover a minor pest problem, handle it, and continue on. No big deal, right? Other times, such as this past week, it se ...
Garden Newsletter: Squash Bugs, Vine Borers
June 24th, 2018 at 7:00 am ESTGarden Newsletter: Squash Bugs, Vine Borers We celebrated the passing of spring into summer and a much-needed rain by planting more tomatoes (transplants of Golden King Siberian and Potato Leaf Hillbilly), cukes (long green), and calendula flowers. ...
Happy Father's Day and Short Article Roundup!
June 17th, 2018 at 12:05 pm ESTHappy SUNDAY! and ... Happy Father's Day to the dads! :-) We hope you are having a great weekend! Coleman is out of town this weekend, coaching at an investment conference in Atlanta, so we'll create a larger garden update next week. :-) If you ha ...
Is It Too Late to Plant in June?
June 10th, 2018 at 7:05 pm ESTHappy Sunday! Is It Too Late to Plant in June? Not by our reckoning or that of our Garden Planner app. We’ve planted beets, tomatillos, squash, flowers, peppers, eggplants, and cucamelons (Mexican Sour Gherkins). We’ve seeded arugula, okra, and ...
Gardening with Nature in Mind
June 3rd, 2018 at 8:00 pm ESTHappy Sunday, Gardener! Part of this week was spent in NYC, so away from the garden. Thankfully, it rained nearly everyday, and the containers and rows that have yet to be lined up with drip irrigation, did fine. We just need to stay ahead of the sl ...
Edible Landscape, Heavy Rains, and Pallets
May 20th, 2018 at 8:14 pm ESTHappy Sunday! The prior two weeks had been bone dry. So, like any mindful gardener, I put in an order for rain. And it poured more than 6 inches this week with still more on it’s way over the next week! We got in some transplants in spite of the ...
Mind Over Matter
May 16th, 2018 at 6:15 am ESTMind Over Matter Makes a World of Difference "Physical barriers you encounter are set as much by your brain as by your body." ~Alex Hutchison Tired... That feeling that washes over your body that signals to you to slow down… to give in… to stop ...
Garden Arches and Irrigation Systems
May 15th, 2018 at 1:18 pm ESTHappy Tuesday! This weekly update is late. We enjoyed a fine family weekend to celebrate “Mother’s Day” and relaxing away from the technology. Now we’re running to catch up and feeling a bit like Fred and Wilma in the Flintstone mobile. ? ? ...
Garden Newsletter: Short but Intense Week in the Garden
May 7th, 2018 at 7:30 pm ESTHappy Monday! Sorry we did not send this out on Sunday. We were out of town! Due to an out-of-state trip, we only had 5 partial days and a lot to do in the garden. This has been the most plants we’ve seeded and transplanted t ...
Building Pallet Gardens and April 2018 Planting Update
April 29th, 2018 at 5:27 pm ESTGreetings, Gardener! Oh Joy! The spring season is finally opening! Did you hear that April 2018 may go down as the coldest April in the USA . . .ever? Amazingly, vast portions of the Northeast and northern plains saw colder conditions during the fir ...