Farming Chart

Cherry trees is hard to pollinate, which is bad news for most backyard gardeners. You plant a tree and hope for blossoms, only to have … Read more

Garden seed packets are your friends. If you focus too much on the illustrations of fruit on them, you might skip over that all-important info … Read more

Planting a chestnut tree; waiting 3 years for fruit, and dropping your green burrs before they ever go brown. The soil was right; the sun … Read more

When spring flowers fade and there’s no fruit, don’t blame bad soil (or even pests). For example, no harvest will happen if you grow just … Read more

First of all, you have this really delicat seedling. If you mess around with it wrong, you’ll kill it. Then you get into that fragile … Read more

When you see a plant that’s not looking good but don’t know whether it’s thirsty or has been overwatered, you’re in a spot. One that … Read more

There are many reasons your seedlings stays stunted, and no, you didn’t neglect them. One reason is bad spacing. It’s tempting to cram things in … Read more

And so it is with mini watermelons. It’s not that you’re unlucky; it’s mostly a matter of timing. No one wants to cut into a … Read more

June: Oh, no! Your tomato plants is all beat-up. They are missing their leaves, stripped bare of stems, and have holes right where the fruit … Read more

An early-blooming shrub like the haskap will flower before the snow dissapears, sometimes even with snow still on the ground. This gives the plant strength … Read more