Farming Chart

You plant a female holly tree and count on those red berries come winter. You feed it, water it…but no luck: No berries, just empty … Read more

Most walnut growers assume that if they plant a healthy tree in good soil, the nuts will just appear by autumn. When it’s just planted, … Read more

Think of pollination like thing that happens while you are looking around your garden checking for lettuce pests or watering your tomatoes. It is something … Read more

It’s a familiar frustration of apricot growers: the blossoms drop and no fruit forms. You’ve done everything right (or so it seems). You watered and … Read more

IS IT A drowning fern, or is it thirsty? It’s one of gardening’s great mysteries, a riddle: You keep watering because the surface inch of … Read more

If you’ve ever found yourself in a garden center aisle looking at two seemingly unrelated plant, a giant sunflower on one end of the spectrum … Read more

Most growers do not think about it enough and use too much water by adding nutrients to a reservoir and hoping for the best. What … Read more

The third week is when things get hairy for a soil grow. Your plants look great, and you’re freaking out that they’ve been drowning, or … Read more

When you go to pull a plant from its pot to examine the soil, what you discover are black, mushy roots… A common indicator that … Read more

“Should I water the garden, or not?” That’s often my first thought when I walk outside, followed by a guess… And that means I either … Read more

ON A hot afternoon when the garden is tired, you worry. Your tomatoes don’t look as good as they did; there leaves are limp. What’s … Read more