We all are enjoying our seed catalogs. They are great references, but their seed descriptions are designed to sell seeds. Here’s great information about tomatoes straight from objective experts to help you decide which varieties to grow this year. PSU extension officer, Steve Bogash has overseen the growing hundreds of varieties of tomatoes under tightly controlled trial conditions including the Landisville Research Farm in PA.
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It's Tomato Season
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Gifts for Gardeners
Want to make your favorite gardening fanatic smile on Christmas? Some thoughts on how to make that happen.
Free for the Taking; Groundhog
Gardeners build fences to keep them out. Wives tales tell us the plant eating critters will leave if you do stuff like put moth balls in their burrows. Some of us try to trap and relocate them. One wired gardener, tries to solve his groundhog problem through Craigslist and Myspace.
Growing Connections Through Gardening
Intrinsically, gardening is creating beauty and enriching your surroundings. The surprise is that your emotional and social life is enriched as well. To mark my first Garden Writers Symposium, I post my first gardening column courtesy of the Harrisburg Patriot-News.
Nature Gone Wild; Bugs and Art
I admired her for a number of reasons, not the least of which is her role as a reminder not to become overly sentimental about “nature.”
Tomato Tidbits; Why do we do all this?
In the midst of this season’s oddness and challenge, I’ve heard bits of good news and anecdotes that explain why gardeners will excitedly grow tomatoes next year.
It’s a quest for that great tomato flavor.
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Snake Dancing out of Stupidity
The majority of Pennsylvania’s native snakes are harmless and beneficial to gardeners. Chances of encountering a venomous species in your yard or garden are very remote. Naturalist Jack Hubley will be at Meadowood Nursery Saturday June 27th.
Fresh Food for Health
Each time you choose locally grown organic foods, you are making an investment in your future health care said Jennifer Halpin, Director of the College Farm Project at Dickinson College. Sometimes you might have to spend a little extra. Or we might have to change our patterns a bit. But the effort is rewarded with [...]
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Why Native? Here's Why
Many of us know that plants native to a specific area grow particularly well, because they are genetically suited to the specific growing conditions having evolved over centuries to prosper in that specific climate. It is right plant, right place cubed. We’ve heard the arguments that natives are easier to grow.
Mini-farmin' Mom
It’s been cold here in Pennsylvania but that hasn’t stopped me from being busy in the garden. I don’t have a farm, yet. But that hasn’t stopped me from farming. Mini-sized.
I have a 10 square foot farm working in my basement. Under my seedling benches topped with precariously placed grow lights almost kissing the tops [...]
