Tomatoes are not hard to grow, even in difficult soil you will get something, but the richer the soil, the more plentiful the harvest. We have a relatively short growing season here, and I like quick results, so for the past few years have been growing grape or cherry tomatoes. I only plant 3-4 plants [...]
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It’s actually spring-like today, a little cloudy, but in the 50′s, which is nice…and it’s most definitely time to be planning the garden. Even though I do a garden blog and like to garden, I must admit that I like to grow things that aren’t to hard to maintain. The years of being challenged by [...]
Here I sit waiting for the first flakes to drop as we wait for March to come in like a lion here in Northern NJ. With a winter like this, one can only continue to dream about what it will be like to begin digging in the soil. I remember when I was a young [...]
Being on a tropical theme today, I thought I’d look and see what videos are available for the tropical gardener, and I found quite a few! I didn’t realize that, in the right climate, Banana Plants are fairly easy to grow, and also didn’t realize that they produce fruit at only 6 feet tall! I [...]
Are you living in a warm part of the country or world where you are dealing with garden and household insect pests? We are in very-cold-right-now northern NJ, but even in the cold of winter, the basement of our cabin has little crickets, cave crickets, that my husband is always dealing with. So far he [...]


