Farming Calculator

Chances are, you began with the best of intentions: drawing a tidy grid onto your piece of paper representing your garden bed, then envisioning all … Read more

How does fresh chicken manure work? It’s a powerful soil amendment, but not if applied directly to growing plants, because it will burn their root … Read more

Did you know that even with optimal soil and watering conditions, cauliflower heads occasionaly stay tiny? Why? Frequently, it’s because there simply wasn’t room for … Read more

One little seed planted in the soil when it’s just right means a pumpkin, and then the vine spreads across the lawn. You put one … Read more

A Spacing Calculator helps you figure out exactly where to plant your sweet potato plants, no more typical slip-garden mistakes! Because they root along their … Read more

To most of us home gardeners, grass clipping are a disposal issue. Not a resource. You mow Saturday; come Monday, it’s not looking much like … Read more

It feels like magic, but it is realy just biology playing out on a slower timeline: watching wood chips transform into dark, crumbly earth are … Read more

You may start with nice, evenly-spaced okra plants, but in three weeks, five-foot-tall plants will be competing for sun. Why do so many gardeners start … Read more

When your ranunculus send up foliage but never get around to flowering, you’re tempted to think you’ve done something wrong, or maybe even made yourself … Read more

It’s spring; you plant the crown and hope for an explosion of color in June. Weeks become months: Green leaves push up… But still no … Read more

You plant A bulb in fall for springtime flowers; the garden remains green. No bloom materializes. Why? Something didn’t match up between what you expect … Read more