by Greg Alder | Sep 1, 2023 | Misc |
Whenever I feed my chickens or fertilize my vegetables and fruit trees I hear the phrase, “You are what you eat eats.” “You are what you eat” is a phrase we all know, and it means that our bodies consist of whatever we put into them. The lesson...
by Greg Alder | Jun 24, 2023 | Pests, Vegetables |
One downside to the wet winter and cool spring we’ve had is that earwigs, pill bugs, slugs, and snails have found this weather heavenly, and they continue to munch on my vegetables even during these first days of summer. But I’ve got a few tricks up...
by Greg Alder | Feb 24, 2023 | Misc, Weather |
Yesterday I hung out with a group of avocado growers. The current cold and rainy weather that is following a lengthy cold and rainy winter was a main topic of discussion. “There have been, what, three days over 70 degrees this winter?” said one grower....
by Greg Alder | Jan 6, 2023 | Vegetables |
I hate to see folks letting their vegetable gardens go dormant in the winter. The eggplants and tomatillos and cucumbers decline in the fall, and they don’t replace them with cool-season crops. They just wait to get started again in the spring, as if they live...
by Greg Alder | Jul 22, 2022 | Vegetables |
We had spent the afternoon swimming in the Tsoaing river, which would swell with water after each summer rain, and we were hungry. Masopha led us to his family’s field nearby where they were growing corn with watermelon underneath. He picked a couple of...
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