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Peppers
Growing your own food at home in these tough economic times is an easy way to ease the budget crunch for your family. Peppers, both the sweet bell pepper types and the spicy chili pepper types, are...
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Caterpillars in the Vegetable Garden: Part I
Have you ever served broccoli at the dinner table only to find green worms cooked in your food? Yuk! A client of ours says she’ll never grow broccoli again. Too many worms. And she refuses to dump...
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New Book Released Today
Our new book, What’s Wrong with My Vegetable Garden?, comes out today. Timber Press has, as usual, done a masterful job and produced another beautiful book of which we can be proud. We’d appreciate it...
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Mixing It Up in the Vegetable Garden
A polyculture garden on a small city lot mixes fruit trees and flowers, berry bushes, herbs, and vegetables in carefree abundance. The advantages are many fewer pests and much less disease. We...
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Cabbage and New Year’s
We’re planning to grow more cabbage this year so we can make sauerkraut. It’s New Year’s Eve and the celebratory feast of the new year required sauerkraut and pork in my family of origin. Can’t start...
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Figs and Figsickles
Freeze fresh figs as soon as they’re ripe to make figsickles to enjoy any time of year. We’ll have figsickles today, New Year’s Day 2016, as part of our feasting celebration.
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Blueberry Dreams
Looking forward to our blueberries on a very cold winter morning. We have 12 blueberry bushes on our little urban farmette and, in summer, we harvest enough to freeze. Delicious with our homemade...
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Leeks in Winter
Leeks, kale, and Brussels sprouts are still growing in our garden despite several days of freezing temps in the mid-twenties F. Still have a couple cabbages too.
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