Potato Bag Gardening: The When, Where and the How. . .
Potato bags are a boon to suburban gardeners like me. My property is in an older development with a not very large backyard. Most of the backyard is taken up by a swimming… Continue reading
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Potato/Potahto: Growing Potatoes in the Backyard
You like potato and I like potahto, You like tomato and I like tomahto, Potato, potahto, tomato, tomahto! Lets call the whole thing off! (Lyrics by George/Ira Gershwin) This was the first year… Continue reading
Bagging Tomatoes instead of Varmints
Recently, I posted a request to gardening bloggers asking for methods to protect tomatoes from being eaten by varmints. Blogger Solarbeez suggested picking the tomatoes before they’re ripe (thank you Solarbeez for the great suggestion).… Continue reading
No photoshopping: Zucchini Without Makeup
If celebs like Gwyneth Paltrow or Jessica Alba can post photos of themselves sans makeup or photoshopping, then so can my Zucchinis. Its easy to post about the successes in the garden, but… Continue reading
Garden-Geeking: Of Shoes and Eggplants
I remember when I was a little girl, my mom would take me shoe shopping. It was very exciting to go to Buster Browns (and later Nordstrom’s when it was still just a… Continue reading
Getting’ Your Pollination On
Birds do it. Bees do it. Even Syrphids do it. They all do it. They all pollinate. You would think that with so many pollinators around, it would be easy to grow squash and… Continue reading
