Farming Chart

You planted your favorite cherry tomato next to an heirloom tomato last year so you’d have a rainbow of flavors. The fruits was all the … Read more

The smell is nice; like walking through an apricot orchard in full bloom. The flowers blanket the tree branches. And if everything goes well, you’d … Read more

If your viburnum snubs fails to bear berries even though they have flowered, you might be tempted to blame them. Or perhaps it is the … Read more

Why a Seckel pear tree? Who doesn’t crave a little concentrated autumn sunshine on the tongue, in the form of sweet and tiny fruits from … Read more

Honeyberries, also known as blue honeysuckle, are self-incompatible. This means they need another plant, specificaly a different variety that blooms at the same time, to … Read more

Think of an anthurium as something that functions like a living factory, not just a houseplant to decorate your home. Thinking this way transforms a … Read more

Plant a pear tree, reap the fruit; except there’s no fruit on the pear tree; just empty branches. You watered it, pruned it, but nothing. … Read more

You did your soil ph and mulch right, but now you’re harvesting shriveled-up blueberries? Even if you didn’t, probably not, it’s more likely the wrong … Read more

If you are growing Rabbiteye blueberries, you will likely do what I did and what most people do: buy one bush, place it in prime … Read more

Planting heritage fruit trees is the most costly home gardening error. Most home gardeners make the costly error of planting just two of the same … Read more

THERE’S A common frustration for the home gardener: plum trees that don’t bear, yet appear quite healthy anyway. Most times the problem isn’t soil or … Read more