Farming Chart

That first day outside in the garden, you might be happy to see your basil seedling is alive and well. It stays green and strong … Read more

PEPPERS: Each year you repeat one of the most common errors about pepper growing: thinking you’ll plant them close together till summer, when they will … Read more

Peppers get A BAD rep: they’re hard to grow, right? You sow them extra-early. You shelter them against frost. Next thing, they just sit there, … Read more

Is that A pepper plant of yours? Something’s up with it; those leaves aren’t looking right. They’re going a bit limp or maybe there’s a … Read more

You pull back a leaf on your favorite maple tree and there it is: yellow and fuzzy as if it’s made of tiny little angry … Read more

That purple-stained leaves on a stunted tomato? That’s no case of neglect; usualy it’s over-fertilizing. Too much of something can be toxic, just like starving, … Read more

Don’t stress out unnecessery over “who’s who” in the garden: Separate your good guys from the bad guys. Often, the details are not obvious enough … Read more

New York gardeners are often mislead by their intuition about who’s whom among the creatures here. “Green worm?” You say, as he chews a hole … Read more

IT’S A HAIRY, many-legged wriggling thing crawling across moist soil of your garden, where you’re down on your knees wielding a trowel. Panic may set … Read more

Reaching into A BRANCH of an oak tree, you expect to find a leaf, but instead you feel something furry. It is not hair, and … Read more

Walking through a Virginia garden in early summer is a bit of a test. Sometimes you can’t tell what is happening until you know exactly … Read more