Welcome to the 2012 edition in the collective blog series: Painting Our Black Thumbs Green. You can find other related posts in Veggies Squared. This blog meme is held in conjunction with Christina of The Table has Shoes and Other Ambiguities. Last year we both conducted fairly successful experiments in edible gardening… and this year [...]
View Article blight, carrot grow bags, carrots, copper fungicide, garden, garden location, garden planning, gardening, Jerusalem artichokes, Landreth Seed Company, Mel Bartholomew, organic, Painting Our Black Thumbs Green, POBTG, Potato Grow Bags, potatoes, Seven Springs Farm, SFG, square foot gardening, sun mapping, tomatoes, vegetable garden, vegetable gardening
Drought, flood, locusts… Sounds like an introduction to The Old Testament, right? Sadly it’s just what ordinary farmers and gardeners have to deal with every season. I knew that when I started my garden I could expect to have some stumbling blocks along the way, but I didn’t expect to beating back the hordes right [...]
View Article aphids, beans, Black Swallowtail Caterpillar, blossom end rot, broccoli, brown marmorated stink bug, cabbage worm, carrots, caterpillar, honeydew, margined blister beetle, Organocide, potatoes, praying mantis, Tabasco, toad, tomatoes