Bob’s Blog
Start Planning Your Fall Garden
In this post, I'll walk you through how to plan for succession planting in your late summer garden, with practical examples and tips to get you started.
Sowing the Seeds of Summer
As the days lengthen and the sun warms the earth, gardeners everywhere eagerly anticipate the joys of summer planting.
Viral Victory Garden: Planting
NOW is the time to plant your Victory Garden. Planting is something I’ve written about quite often on our blog so I didn’t feel like I needed to reinvent the wheel for this blog post. However, I thought it might be helpful to share those posts in one convenient place.
What is Bean Rust?
Rust is a common disease that affects many plants. Bean rust is caused by Uromyces phaseoli typica, and it affects common dry and snap, lima, and scarlet runner beans.
Learning from Plant Astronauts and Ancient Farmers
“That’s one small sprout for plant, one giant leaf for plantkind.”
Growing Sprouts
I have fond childhood memories of going out for lunch after Sunday church to Dale’s (Duff’s) Smorgasbord in Gallipolis, OH. To me the coolest thing wasn’t the rotating buffet but the salad bar. On the salad bar they had alfalfa sprouts. Being a weird kid the preferred vegetables over sweets, I would always pile my plate high with alfalfa sprouts and those little ears of corn. As a kid, I always wondered how those sprouts were grown.