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Month: August 2021

Garden Health & Seed Saving

Garden Health & Seed Saving

The rainy weeks of August have promoted plant diseases, weeds, and some pests.  As harvesting of onions, potatoes, tomatoes, and other vegetables continues it’s important to practice prevention to limit damage to our hard-earned harvests. While harvesting veggies, herbs, and flowers is the best part of gardening, don’t overlook another crop you might want to gather… seeds for next year.  If you’ve grown peas, beans, tomatoes, or lettuce these are the easiest to save and assure you will have good…

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Late Summer Garden Care

Late Summer Garden Care

Rain or shine, our gardens are now heading into the home stretch with tomatoes and peppers leading the way!  Weather has not been good for some veggies and flowers this summer, so disappointments are part of the game. Tomatoes and peppers are really sub-tropical plants and don’t know that winter is coming so they are still trying to grow as though they have many months ahead.  We know better and there are several things we can do right now to…

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August Abundance!

August Abundance!

After all these rains it’s a great feeling to see your garden in full maturity and producing an abundance of veggies, herbs, flowers, and soon to be harvested potatoes, onions, carrots, beets, turnips, and more.  It’s the reward that a hard-working gardener deserves and should enjoy this time of year.  Harvesting is key to good production, the more you pick the more you get!  Leaving fruits on plants to get over-ripe or go to seed tells the plants its job…

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