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  • I Joined a Community Garden
  • In My February Garden
  • Planning to Save Seeds from the Garden
  • Gardening to Save Money
  • Keeping a Garden Journal or Notebook
  • From Summer to Fall in the Garden
  • Consider Plant Families When Choosing Fruit Trees and Shrubs
  • Preserving the Small Garden Harvest
  • State of the Garden, mid-June
  • Learning from a Soil Test
  • The Radish Capital of America
  • Can I Grow Food Organically on a Sand Dune?
  • Gardening into Fall
  • When Things Go Wrong in the Garden
  • Gardeners Rely on Each Other
  • Gardening for the Pandemic
  • Protect Seedlings with Paper Collars
  • How Much Does it Cost to Start a Garden?
  • Greens that Survive Freezing Weather
  • Growing Sugarloaf (Pan di Zucchero) Chicory
  • Goals for the Garden
  • How to Keep Garden Records
  • Early December Garden
  • Getting the Garden Ready for a Hard Freeze
  • Easy to Grow Jujubes
  • The Garden in Early October
  • What’s Eating My Swiss Chard?
  • Small Farm Tools Demonstration at KSU Field Station
  • Squirrels in the Fruit Trees
  • Planting Crops for Fall and Winter Harvest
  • Two Days for Pollinators
  • Basil Trial for Basil Downy Mildew
  • What Caused my Tomato Plant to Wilt, Part 2
  • Growing Turmeric, and Other Garden Adventures
  • Southern Peas for the Summer Garden
  • Duct Tape for Pest Control
  • The Mid-July Garden
  • What Caused my Tomato Plant to Wilt?
  • June in the Garden
  • Organic Garden Pest Control
  • When to Harvest Summer Squashes
  • When Compost is the Fertilizer
  • Bridging a Garden’s Hungry Gap
  • National Public Gardens Week
  • Stop Garden Weeds with Mulch
  • Garden Gifts for Spring
  • Growing Summer Salad Greens and Potherbs
  • How to Plant a Tomato
  • Growing (and Eating) What’s Good for the Garden
  • After the Soil3 Garden Show
  • Soil3 Garden Show in Cumming, GA
  • Garden Crops in March
  • Planting Dates for Summer Garden Vegetables
  • Broccoli, Beets, and Boron – Updated
  • Build Bee Hotels for Native Bees
  • Difference Between Determinate and Indeterminate Tomatoes
  • Planting in the Winter Garden
  • GGIA Trade Show Notes for Organic Gardeners
  • Seeds for the Small Space Garden, part 2
  • Ordering Seeds for the Small Space Garden
  • Good Garden Soil
  • Why Did My Radishes Split?
  • How to protect plants from deer
  • Soil pH and Garden Success
  • Snails in the Garden
  • Gardens Can Provide Convenient Substitutions for Missing Ingredients
  • Gifts for Gardeners in Winter
  • Ichi Ki Kei Jiro – Asian Persimmon
  • New Page About Wildflowers in Tuscany
  • Winter Harvests at Plant a Row for the Hungry
  • Fall in the Garden, Continued
  • For the Herb Garden in Fall
  • Preparing for the First Frost
  • Is Gardening Really All About Bugs?
  • The Passing of a Gardener
  • Cucumber Bonanza Nearing its End
  • Trap Crops for the Home Garden
  • At the Pollinator Symposium
  • Uncommon Crops at Area Community Gardens
  • Something is Making Holes in My Squash Flowers and Stems
  • Coffee Grounds for Gardens
  • Are Ladybugs Eating My Squash Plants?
  • Small Garden Ideas from Uncommon Ground (Use What You Have)
  • Peppers, Basil, and Bees in the Garden
  • Many Kinds of Chicory
  • Planting Begins for My Fall Garden
  • Edible Jewels of Opar is Beautiful, too
  • Urban Garden Ideas from Garfield Park Conservatory
  • Do You Have Your Fall Garden Seeds Yet?
  • Large Black Wasp on Flowers
  • Beneficial Garden Insects: Flower Flies
  • Stale Bread Plus Tomatoes and Basil Equals Great Food
  • Wood Pallet Gardens
  • Why Do Some Tomatoes Have Thicker Skins?
  • Side-Dress Your Vegetable Garden if Needed
  • Small Garden Ideas from Tuscany to Use Anywhere
  • Home Vegetable Gardens in Italy
  • Summer Squash in the Southern Garden
  • Flowers Make Us Smile
  • Small Yards Can Support a Lot of Pollinators
  • Sequence of Ripening Fruit in My Southern Yard
  • Flowers in My Yard on Mother’s Day Weekend
  • Striped Caterpillars in the Garden, Eating the Dill
  • Ladybugs in the Garden – Which Ones Are They?
  • Gifts for Gardeners – Spring and Summer
  • Organic Pest Control: Mexican Bean Beetles
  • Planting Seeds in the Garden, the Basics
  • New Book! Fall Garden Planning
  • Container Edibles Can Work in Formal Settings
  • Small Garden in Early Spring
  • A Tale of Two Fish Emulsion Fertilizers
  • Is that Seedling a Lettuce, a Spinach, or a Weed?
  • Tomatoes for the South
  • Plan to Get More Food from Your Small Space
  • Grow Chicory for Coffee and Greens
  • Planting by Nature’s Signs, and Other Tasks
  • That Seed Starting Time of Year
  • New Posts Over at Small Garden News
  • Potassium Sources for an Organic Garden
  • When Can I Start Planting?
  • Spiral Herb Garden: Wintertime Construction Project?
  • An Indoor Garden for Winter
  • A Gift of Miner’s Lettuce
  • Seeds for the Whole Gardening Year
  • Planning to Grow Spring Salads
  • New Post Up at Small Garden News
  • Snowfall, Gardening, and Community
  • Gifts for Gardeners (and Budding Foragers)
  • Gifts for Gardeners
  • Worm Composting at Home
  • Gardening Books I Have Loved – Culinary and Salad Herbs
  • Hand Tools for Your Garden
  • How to Plant Your Home Garden Garlic
  • First Frost
  • Fire Ants in the Garden – Part 2
  • Fire Ants in the Garden – Organic Control
  • Seed Saving — Heirloom Bush Beans
  • Baker Creek Relief for Hurricane Damaged Gardens
  • Bulbs for Southern Gardens – Fall Flowering
  • Insects in the Garden – Predatory Wasps
  • Bush Beans – A Quick Crop
  • Control Cabbage Moths and Butterflies with Netting
  • Bean Leaf Rollers Return
  • Pollinator Symposium, September 23
  • Planning a Small Fall Garden
  • Starting Again in August
  • Ready to Plant a Fall Garden?
  • Small Home Gardens I’ve Seen Recently
  • Summertime Adventure
  • Supporting Pollinators
  • Planting with Drought in Mind
  • Edith’s Darling Rose, from Weeks Roses
  • Fruit for Thought
  • Boxwood Blight Leads to Need for Alternative Shrubs
  • Time for a Quick Crop of Radishes
  • Time for a Quick Crop of Radishes
  • ‘There Never Was a Spring Like This’
  • Georgia Organics Conference, Part 2
  • Georgia Organics Conference, Part 1
  • Aphids on the Arugula?
  • Aphids on the Arugula?
  • Now You See them, Now You Don’t: Perennials in the Garden
  • When Can I Start Seeds for My Spring Garden?
  • Planning for the Community Gardening Year
  • Choosing Varieties for the Small Veggie Garden
  • Drought, but the Garden Keeps Growing
  • The Summer Garden Looks Toward Fall
  • A Movie for Pollinator Week (3rd week in June)
  • Long, Slow Spring
  • Bitter Greens Ahead?
  • Mildew Resistant Cucumbers: Possible, or Just a Fantasy?
  • Root Knot Nematodes in My Beets
  • Is It Spring Yet?
  • Can You Dig This? – The Movie
  • Field of Greens
  • Fruit of the Season, Beautiful Fruit
  • Plant, Harvest, Process, Repeat
  • Road Trip to Monticello
  • Muscadine Time
  • Planning for More Good Food
  • Vegetable Abundance
  • Mid-Summer Garden
  • Fruits for ( and some not for) North Georgia Yards
  • Eye of the Beholder – Bumblebee Love and Garden Update
  • Insect Activity This Week
  • Squash Beetles and Bean Harvests
  • Summer Harvests Begin
  • Corn, Planted in Nests
  • Twisty, Narrowed, Thickened Leaves and Other Weedkiller Damage
  • Salad Days
  • Spring Veggies to Harvest Now, or Soon, and Delayed Planting
  • What’s In Season Now?
  • Are We Beyond the Last Frost? Is it Safe to Plant?
  • Indoor Seedlings for the Summer Garden
  • Time to Plant Potatoes and Peas
  • Growing Hominy Corn at Home
  • Still Winter, but Dreaming of Spring
  • Almost Seed-Starting Time
  • That Seed-Buying Time of Year
  • A Tale of Two Kales
  • After the Big Freeze…
  • Thinking About Seeds
  • Seed Saving Surprise
  • Southern Vegetables
  • Looking Back, Looking Ahead
  • Last Summer’s Hard Work Pays Off
  • Who Loves Tools?
  • Just a Quick Note
  • Onion-Family is Planted; Cold is on the Way
  • Lost Varieties – Wheat, Corn
  • Colorado, and Cooler Weather on the Way
  • Garden’s Progress
  • Sweet Work
  • My Family Wants More Broccoli
  • So Close, and Yet So Far
  • Seeds are for Sharing
  • Mid-September in the Garden
  • Saving Seeds for Beans
  • The Garden Keeps Rolling Along
  • Pollination Station at a Hummingbird Banding Event
  • Harvesting Summer to Make Room for Fall
  • Not Fall Yet, But Getting There
  • When the Garden Pelts You with Food…
  • I Needed a Bigger Basket
  • Community Gardening for Food and for People
  • Thinking Forward to Fall
  • Cupped, Twisty, Weird Tomato Leaves: Herbicide Damage
  • Beans, Berries, and Cukes
  • How the Garden Grows…
  • What I Didn’t Know About Tomatillos
  • Not Finished with Planting, and Still Harvesting Lettuce
  • Compost Contemplations
  • The Future of Supper
  • Urban Farming Produces a Huge Amount of Food
  • The Seven Kinds of Sweet Potato Amy Likes Best
  • Spring Harvest (!) and Soil Temperatures for Planting
  • Almost Time for the Spring Planting Marathon
  • Generosity of Gardeners
  • Waiting, but Busy
  • Seedling and Potato Progress
  • Potatoes and Lettuce and Peas (and More!)
  • Gardening Books for Georgia – Part 1
  • Tilling, or Not
  • It’s Magical Outside
  • DIY Potting Mixes and Seed Starting
  • What Can I Plant Now?
  • Crazy Icy Roads
  • When the Garden Gets Slammed By a Very Hard Freeze
  • Garden Plans and Events
  • Endings and Beginnings
  • Dahlias for the Bees
  • Tracking the Harvest: October and November, 2013
  • What Gardeners Think About in Winter
  • Good Food and Thankfulness
  • What Survived the Dip into the mid-20s
  • Baker Creek’s Whole Seed Catalog for 2014: IT’S HERE!
  • Where the Pollinators and Predators Hang Out
  • About Those Falling Leaves
  • A Walk Around the Yard
  • What is Organic Gardening?
  • Busy Weekend: Harvesting, Processing, then Planting Some More
  • Great Things about Late October
  • Tracking the Harvest on World Food Day: September 2013
  • Mostly Ready for Fall/Winter
  • Chipmunks in the Sweet Potatoes
  • Garden Update
  • Growing Your Own: When Memories Collide
  • Fall Planting, Continued
  • Managing the Harvest
  • Tracking the Harvest: July and August, 2013
  • Benefits of Crop Rotation
  • Planting the Fall Garden Continues
  • Squash, Melon Update
  • I Planted Carrots
  • Zucchini in August? It’s a Miracle!
  • Rain and More Rain
  • When to Harvest Vegetables in a Tough Gardening Year
  • Attack of the Pickleworms
  • Time to Start Thinking about Cool Weather Crops
  • Squash Downy Mildew
  • Garden Update
  • Tomato Problems Abound
  • Tracking the Harvest: May and June 2013
  • I’ve Been in Texas
  • An Animal Surprise in the Garden
  • Found Food: Black Trumpet Mushrooms
  • Persistent Herbicides, OR, Manure Isn’t What it Used to Be
  • Finally, a Summer Harvest!
  • Plenty of Blossoms, But No Big Zucchini
  • Crazy Busy Planting Weekend — and I’m Still Not Done
  • Rain, Rain, Rain and Still More Rain
  • For Healthier Fruit Flies, Go Organic
  • Tracking the Harvest: March & April 2013 Totals
  • Around the Yard
  • Of Gardening and Bees
  • Garden Update
  • Impatience Wins: I Planted Zucchini Seeds
  • Where Do Bees Come From?
  • Planting “Bunny Salad”
  • Kudzu Bug Update
  • Spring, Sprang, Sprung
  • Wonderful, Beautiful, Productive Weekend
  • Watching the Weather
  • Garden Schedule for the Next Few Weeks
  • Bumping Up the Seedlings, and Other Goings On
  • “Organic” Organic-Matter for the Garden
  • Tracking the Harvest: Jan. & Feb. 2013
  • Setting Potatoes Out to Sprout (Chitting)
  • The Seeds of Spring are Planted in the Dining Room
  • System of (Garden) Intensification
  • Will I Be Growing GMO Seeds This Year?
  • Garden Update
  • Tomato Varieties Update
  • Tracking the Harvest: December 2012
  • Indoor Blueberry Babies
  • Crazy for (or because of) Cauliflower
  • Adventures in eHow
  • Tracking the Harvest: Nov. 2012
  • Carrots, Catalogues, and a Mixed Up Plant
  • Asian Persimmon – Ichi Ki Kei Jiro
  • First Frost in Our Yard!
  • Transplant without Trauma
  • Raspberries in the South
  • Tracking the Harvest: Sept. and Oct.
  • The Sustainable Garden
  • State of the Garden Report
  • Bok Choy! (or, Pak Choi!)
  • A “Good Year” for Chipmunks
  • Not Quite Summer, Not Quite Fall
  • Plant Health Management
  • We’re Back in the House!
  • Bean Leaf Rollers – Late Summer Pests on Beans
  • Tracking the Harvest: August
  • Transition to Fall
  • Forward Movement
  • Four Little Squashes
  • It Only Looks Like Bare Ground
  • What Comes of the Compost
  • Dehydrating the Harvest
  • Keeping Track of the Harvest: July
  • Gardens and Talks
  • The Garden Goes On
  • Crazy Disaster
  • Tracking the Harvest: June
  • Planning Pays Off
  • Last of the Zucchini, Plus Squash Beetles
  • Square-footing-it in the South
  • State of the Garden Report
  • Not an Avanlanche of Food, but Close Enough
  • Keeping Track of the Harvest: April and May
  • Plant a Row for the Hungry Finally Gets a Start!
  • Bad News Bugs
  • The Seeds We Need
  • Garlic! Potatoes! Etc.!
  • Pruning Tomatoes on a Blazing Hot Day
  • Are We Sure this is Spring?
  • What Home Gardening Contributes
  • Summer is Busting Out All Over
  • While I Was Out
  • Old Time Insect Control
  • Keeping Track of the Harvest: March
  • New Pest: Kudzu Bug
  • Spring Madness
  • Spring Gardening “Crunch Time” Approaches
  • Uneasy Spring
  • First Morel of the Season!
  • Planning for Salad
  • Busy Times
  • Keeping Track of the Harvest: Jan. and Feb.
  • Summer Begins in February
  • Thinking about Soil
  • Video for the Most Intense Gardeners
  • It Begins …
  • Why Garden?
  • Daffodil Craziness
  • USDA is Catching Up
  • Just an Update
  • Gardening in Uncertain Weather
  • Year’s Ending, and Beginning
  • Nonconforming Freely
  • Early winter in my Southern garden
  • Gardening for the harried
  • More Garden-talk with Grandpa Bill
  • Thanksgiving conversations
  • Autumn Productivity
  • Charrette
  • New Garden Site!
  • Me and My Bok Choy
  • Definitely the End of Summer
  • A Lot Like Fall
  • Wrong season, but a cool trick
  • Field Trip to Farmer D Organics!
  • Tenacity of the Summer Garden
  • Gardens are always ending – and always beginning
  • Now and Later
  • The Only Constant is Change
  • Fall Garden’s All In
  • The Latest “Goings On”
  • Pickled Green Tomato Relish
  • Like the Energizer Bunny
  • Fall Garden Time
  • Unwelcome Guest
  • Beginning Before the Ending
  • ‘Fast’ Food
  • Busy Times
  • When ‘Organic’ Gardening Goes Horribly Wrong
  • Real Tomatoes. Finally.
  • Overgrown
  • Squash Vine Borer Unveiled
  • Wild Harvest
  • While I Was Out
  • Road Trip
  • Death of a Tomato Plant
  • The Crops Are Saved!
  • A Varied Diet
  • Beans and Zucchini
  • Summer Harvest Begins
  • Odd Squash Problem: Split Stems
  • Spring’s End?
  • Beans of Tomorrow
  • The Vagaries of Spring
  • What’s for Lunch?
  • Temps in the 90s
  • Tools Inventory: Grub Hoe
  • Groups and Gardening
  • Little Bits of Progress
  • Vegetable Tourism
  • Plenty to See
  • Keeping Pace
  • Choices
  • Helping the Plant Babies Grow
  • Stormy Weather
  • Bumping up the Babies
  • Progress of Spring
  • Planting with PAR
  • Making the Most of Small Gardens
  • Hanging Out with the Old Guys
  • UGA and Sources of Gardening Information
  • This Morning’s Talk
  • It’s Time!
  • Talking and Doing
  • When to Begin . . .
  • PAR Planning
  • For Love of Vegetables
  • Oxheart Carrots
  • Seed Decisions
  • Planting Dates
  • The Last Catalogue
  • ‘Brave Sallet’
  • Snow! Again!
  • Leather Britches Beans
  • Starting Out Right
  • Miracles Every Day
  • Food Traditions
  • A Mexican Food Miracle
  • Persimmons and a Friend
  • Seed Catalogues!
  • A Hard Freeze on its Way
  • Southern Seed Legacy
  • Wild Food for Supper
  • Good Food
  • A ‘Focused Experience’
  • Trying Turnips
  • A Good Winter Crop
  • Progress
  • Plant Everywhere
  • First Freeze Tonight!
  • One (Almost) Tidied Garden Bed
  • Fall Garden Clean-up
  • Garden Distractions
  • Horehound Surprise
  • Fall Veggies on the Way
  • Shiitake
  • Sweet Potato Harvest
  • Preparing to Plant Garlic
  • Sweet Potatoes at PAR
  • Veggies, Continued
  • Sweet Exuberance
  • Between Seasons
  • Mexican Bean Beetles
  • Still Food in the Yard, but Less
  • Found Food: Cauliflower Mushroom
  • Stinging Saddleback
  • The Garden of Mr. Hankerson and Mr. Kastner
  • Report from Hotlanta
  • Back from Colorado
  • Squash Tales
  • A Day’s Harvest
  • Two Good Questions
  • Out of Chaos…
  • Rust in the Garden
  • Small Fruits
  • Progress of My Melon Experiment
  • Update in Pictures
  • Beating Up the Tomatoes
  • An “Alliums” Harvest
  • Tomato Update
  • Just an Update
  • A Too Wet Garden
  • Undercooked Lasagna
  • Busy!
  • Henderson Bush Limas
  • Lettuces
  • Tomato Varieties
  • Soil Temperature
  • A Gardening Story
  • My Friend Susan’s Upcoming Talk
  • Broccoli, beets, and boron
  • Compost is fleeting…
  • A Gardening Friend
  • Planting Schedule Update
  • Fertilizer News
  • Sweet Potatoes
  • Migration
  • Plant a Row for the Hungry
  • Potato Thoughts
  • Surprise!
  • Calendar of Events
  • Is Plastic a Gardener’s Best Friend?
  • Tools Inventory: A Wee Widger
  • Fall Carrots
  • Seed Orders for 2010
  • New Year, New Garden
  • Some Garden Economics
  • Tools Inventory: I (heart) My Compost & Mulch Fork
  • Saving Seeds: Southern Seed Legacy Project
  • Statewide Emergency Pest Alert
  • Saffron
  • In from the Cold
  • Sweet Potato Weather Alert!
  • When a Gardener Can’t Manage the Veggies
  • Garlic and Fall-Planted Onions
  • Louisiana Short?
  • Tomato Disease: Bacterial Speck
  • Stinkhorns!
  • Pest Control: Cucumber Pickleworms
  • Cucurbitaceae Fun Facts
  • Pea Planting Time

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