Farming Chart

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

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

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

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

Gardeners are mostly lottery ticket people with seeds: Buy a packet, throw it in the ground and see what happens. This laissez-faire attitude goes pretty … Read more

The particular kind of interest is in cross breeding peppers. When you do this, you’re pulling traits from one plant and splicing them onto another: … Read more

You’ve got the space, you’ve got the water, you’ve got the sun, and so you plant your apple tree. And then you wait for the … Read more

So you buy a blueberry bush, and plant it with high hopes. In spring, it grows leaves; then it produce flowers. Your bush looks healthy … Read more

Bell peppers are one of those common garden casualties: suddenly, a plant you’ve watched thrive for months dissapears, or it just goes mysteriously limp and … Read more

When the soil is empty and you gaze out at it, wondering what to grow, you might be feeling anxious. How can you get straight … Read more

To get the most flavorful melon, it’s less about luck then it is about strategy. The visual guide is a guide to what helps vine … Read more