Scratch Food with a Side of Geek Mom and Pop Culture.
I didn’t say a lot about my garden for a while cause I had little to say, and suddenly there’s almost too much. My garden, a self-built cedar sub-irrigated planter (SIP) started a bit late due to lousy weather and a change of location. It was located on the badly-worn deck on the side of my…
This is an amalgamation reposting of much of the information found on my site from last spring, and also part of the SIP 101 that I contributed to Homegrown.org. QUICK NAVIGATION Intro Important Notes Materials / Wood Cutting List Building Instructions Construction Photos Soilless Potting Mix Initial Fertilization and Starting Up Ongoing Feeding Pest control…
Unlike some garden vegetables, cucumbers can be a bit of a puzzle. Cucumbers don’t give as many obvious cues to a novice gardener that they’re ready to pick, and a great many ailments of the cucumber plant present similar symptoms. If your cucumbers are turning yellow, but the fruit is large and it and the…
Photo by: James Lindsey at Ecology of Commanster Unfortunately, not all of my garden insects are as relatively undestructive as the velvet mites and swallowtail caterpillars. Fortunately, it appears that (in my garden) the most destructive pest’s preferred plants of choice are extremely limited, and my tomatoes are blithely unfazed that something is hole-ing their older…
I have no idea why I planted dill. I like the way it smells and tastes, but I almost never use it. Dried dill weed stays pretty potent for a long time, and I still can’t use up a small bottle of it before it starts going meh. So imagine my chagrin when I give…
I saw these flies around my garden about a month ago, but I paid them no real attention. I thought they were ordinary house flies. Boy was I wrong! Observe: the adult phase of the Spinach Leafminer (picture from Wikipedia.org), which began attacking my spinach a few weeks ago. Even then, I didn’t pay much attention…