Blog Archive: List of All the Posts
- 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