Tomato Ripeness Chart
When the tomatoes gets all rotted-up and collapse into mush on the vine, gardeners swear they were just a day or two away; a matter … Read more
When the tomatoes gets all rotted-up and collapse into mush on the vine, gardeners swear they were just a day or two away; a matter … Read more
Carrots: When you plant a row of carrot seeds, you space them at a distance that allows each root enough room to grow. Too little … Read more
When you’re in the grocery aisle holding A pair of tomatoes in your hand, maybe one’s red, like the kind you’ve always known; maybe it’s … Read more
Seeds are moody starters, especialy pepper seeds. They is slow to germinate and loathe cold soil. If planting becomes a guessing game, it can lead … Read more
Sometime in summer, tomato season sinks in. Your vines is weighed down with green fruit. There are all those tomato varieties in jars. You know … Read more
A perfect stand of corn would have an ear on every plant and all the stalks would be the same height. No? That’s not what … Read more
The tomato seed packet says “cherry,” so it will be easy, right? No! Depending on which cherry tomato variety you grow the flavor and timing … Read more
They will come back: Scatter cucumber seeds in the hills and still get to harvest a crop? Yes, though it’s harder when time comes for … Read more
It’s all in the probabilities: When sowing multiple seeds per cell (hoping to get at least one germination), you think of them as interchangeable units, … Read more
When it comes time to transplant your seedling outside… Oh, no, wait, you haven’t even chosen what tomatoes will join your garden? Time to panic. … Read more
The seed packet says there are 50 plants per packet. What it actualy delivers is forty-two. Three went bad, four were gobbled by slugs, and … Read more