Do you want to grow your own tomatoes for making sauces and salsas but you’re not sure how to pick the right variety? Technically, you can use any type of tomato to make a paste, sauce, or salsa, but the best tomatoes for canning sauces and salsas are thick walled, have few seeds, and are meatier than other tomatoes. These denser…
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Usually, I recommend only growing food that you like to eat, but that doesn’t mean you can’t try some fun new things. This year, we’re adding in what could be one of the coolest plants we’ve ever grown. But I’ll get to that in just a minute because first I want to tell you about some amazing new vegetables you need…
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Have you ever walked out to your garden one morning to find your tomato plants suddenly stripped bare of their leaves and flowers? If this scene sounds familiar to you, it’s not a rabbit or deer that has decimated your plants, it’s a tomato hornworm. Tomato hornworms can strip a plant down to its bones overnight with their voracious appetites….
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Recently there’s been a surge in concern over harmful bacteria in soil. Specifically, people are panicking over the risk of contracting Legionnaires disease from potting mix. Although Legionnaires disease can be fatal, it’s relatively rare to contract the disease from potting mix. However, it seems that the online world would glorify this into something that might scare people off of…
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As far as veggies go, squashes tend to be pretty low maintenance plants. They’re adaptable to all types of soil, produce tons of fruit, and don’t need any pruning. But there are a few squash pests and diseases that you have to look out for. At some point, whether you’re growing winter squash or my favorite, crookneck summer squash, you’re…
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