Viewing heirloom seeds as living antiques, Lynn Coulter provides readers with historical background and cultural information on fifty heirloom plants that can be propagated from seed. The author considers vegetables…
Spider mites can be serious pests of garden and greenhouse plants including trees, shrubs, vegetables and ornamental plants. The leaves of plants infected with spider mites first show small white…
Space can be a very limiting factor in designing a garden and being able to grow all the plants you want to grow. Growing plants on trellises, arbors, columns and…
Living in an apartment or townhouse doesn’t mean you can’t grow your own vegetables. Many vegetables can be grown in pots including all time favorites like tomatoes and peppers. If…
Mel Bartholomew’s book, Square Foot Gardening, was a big hit back in the 80s and this “All New” edition builds on the principals he laid out. As the author himself…
Have you ever noticed that if a product is marked “organic” the price is higher than similar ones? Apparently a lot of people are very attracted to products, especially food,…
First introduced in the late 1800s, ‘French breakfast’ radish is considered an heirloom radish and is still popular and available in seed stores and from catalogs. The main attraction is…
Cabbage is a cool weather crop so the number of days to harvest can be a very important factor in determining what variety of cabbage to grow. The “Express” in…
The story goes that the Cherokee Indians gave ‘Cherokee Purple’ to a man in Tennessee in the late 1800s. If this is true, the tomato is an heirloom variety. Unfortunately,…
If you enjoy both green and red sweet peppers, consider ‘Bell Boy’. Its thick walled, four lobed, blocky fruits can be used when green or left to turn bright red.…
Karen