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How to Plant Tomatoes (and Get the Best Root System)
Homegrown tomatoes (and basil) are the reason most of us began growing food in the first place. Though some people direct sow their tomato seeds, most begin the season with transplants. Tomato...
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How to Finish the Fall Garden
After the warm months we gardeners are either squeezing as much remaining produce as possible from our plants before the threat of frost, or we’re incredibly grateful for an excuse to stop harvesting…...
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How to Get Your Kid to Eat Tomatoes (aka “Vampire Traveling Tomatoes” that...
My daughter didn’t like tomatoes and it was killing me in the kitchen. When I read this Slate article* and learned that food dislikes were psychological,** and therefore fixable, I decided to eliminate...
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How to Select Hot Pepper Varieties (& Use the Ones You Grow)
We may have overdone it this year with the hot peppers. We don’t feel the least bit repentant, though. Photo Caption: These small sized hot peppers are usually hotter than the big ones. Varieties...
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How to Grow and Use Lemon Grass as a Kitchen Ornamental (with Recipes)
Lemon grass (Cymbopogon citratus) deserves a more prominent place in our herb gardens, kitchens, and even the ornamental landscape. I think it is one of the prettiest plants in the garden! Photo...
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How to Find Hedgehog Mushrooms (and Eat Them: With Recipes)
Even though it’s getting late in the edible mushroom season, we found a nice little haul of sweet tooth hedgehog mushrooms after the rain last weekend: Photo Caption: "Sweet Tooth" hedgehog mushrooms...
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How to Grow and Use Achocha/Caigua (a Problem-Free Cucumber Substitute), with...
Organic gardening often produces healthier, more easily grown vegetables and fruits than the same crops grown with “conventional” methods. There are, however, a few crops that have a pouty reputation...
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How to Save Tomato Seeds (and Oddball Varieties)
I have a request! I’d be so delighted if you’d help me locate any seed strain of the OSU P20 blue tomato. (Scroll to the bottom for photos & more details). Next, the deadline to submit a post about...
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How to Prevent Squash Vine Borer and Powdery Mildew on Squash, Organically
Many organic gardeners who have grown squash in the southeast US will think this must be a practical joke. It’s not! There are chemical-free ways to grow as much squash as your “conventional”...
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How to Grow and Harvest Feijoa
One thing that I have really come to love about living in upstate South Carolina is the sheer diversity of fruits and vegetables that we can grow. Having come from Vermont, where the short summers and...
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