by Greg Alder | Jun 17, 2017 | Watering |
How do you know if a plant needs water? You can look at the plant’s leaves and make a guess, and you can get a rough idea based on how you’ve watered it in the past. And if you’ve just watered a plant, how do you know if you’ve given it enough?...
by Greg Alder | May 19, 2017 | Vegetables |
Transplanting vegetable seedlings is such a simple act, and yet there are better and worse ways to do it. There’s even an artfulness and fluidity to the process. Here are photos with captions describing the five motions that I go through. It’s about...
by Greg Alder | Mar 15, 2017 | Vegetables |
It’s nearly spring, the time of year when many people think of planting a vegetable garden. If this will be your first one, or if you’ve moved into a new house, or if your past vegetable gardens struggled, here are what I consider the two most important...
by Greg Alder | Mar 3, 2017 | Vegetables |
I love hummus, so when I saw a garbanzo bean plant at the nursery last April I bought it. Rookie mistake. Just because you see a plant at the nursery doesn’t mean that now is a good time to buy and plant it. Different vegetable plants prefer to grow in different...
by Greg Alder | Feb 14, 2017 | Soil |
You want your vegetables and fruit trees to grow well and provide you with good food, so you seek advice about how to create the best soil conditions for your plants. You encounter this recommendation in Sunset’s The Edible Garden book about how to...
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