Farming Chart

As most gardeners do, I approach my plot as if it’s a blank canvas, planting seeds here, hoping it will all turn out well over … Read more

OBVIOUSLY, some seedlings is faster than others. Tomato seedlings appear to be slow; radishes are fast. Why? The answer have to do with the way … Read more

THE DAY IS NOT A constantly speeding car; plants don’t just accelerate all day long. “Oh, it’s light out,” most of us think, “so it … Read more

Sometimes you stand in garden staring at a pepper seedling that seems stuck in mud or a scrawny tomato plant and think: What did I … Read more

Gardeners often get an urgent sense about getting things moving as late March approaches, but that rush can backfire in Zone 6, where ground remains … Read more

Gardening in zone 5 is a game of strategy, and patience. According to calendar, May should be here, but the ground might not has thawed … Read more

Most of us treat fertilizing as a guesstimate. Out come the balanced kind from shed, and we sprinkle it over the area and hope for … Read more

But Texas isn’t all hot and flat. It’s a patchwork of small climate area, spread out among four USDA hardiness zones. That means from warm … Read more

Actualy, there are not one but three different garden in Florida. They’re connected by interstate highways. Many assume that if something works in Miami, it’ll … Read more

So you stand there at the nursery door holding a picture from their catalog of a hydrangea, which the label say will grow in zone … Read more

Tomato: That’s blossom-end rot; a hard, brown, hollow spot at the end where the blossom was. It looks like a disease; it isn’t. The trouble … Read more