Let It Bolt: Free Seed from Lettuce and Cilantro
Your bolted lettuce and cilantro aren’t garden failures. They’re next year’s free seed. Here’s exactly how to collect and store it before it’s gone.
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Tomato Fruit Cracking: Why It Happens and How to Fix It
Tomato cracking usually comes down to one thing: inconsistent watering. Here’s why it happens in July, how to prevent it with mulch and deep watering, which varieties hold up best, and what to do with the split fruit before it’s gone.
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Tomato Problems in July: Cheap Fixes That Actually Work
Walking out to find your tomatoes covered in cracks, weird scarring, or brown patches mid-July is a special kind of gardening dread. Most of it traces back to one thing. Here’s how to diagnose what you’re actually seeing and fix it cheap.
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Stop Sunscald on Tomatoes with Cheap Shade
Sunscald on tomatoes and peppers shows up as white papery patches and it’s almost always caused by fruit that suddenly has no shade. Learn how to prevent it with cheap materials you already own, why over-pruning makes it worse, and how to salvage fruit that’s already been hit.
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What to Grow in Your PNW Garden in July
July in the PNW is peak chaos: zucchini you missed behind a leaf, peas going starchy by the hour, garlic that needs to come out now. Here’s what to harvest hard, what you can still plant, and why fall starts can’t wait even though it feels like full summer.
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Tomato Hornworm Control That Costs Almost Nothing
Tomato hornworms can strip a plant overnight and stay invisible the whole time. Here’s how to find them using frass, stripped stems, and a UV flashlight, plus free controls that actually work.
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Sucker Punch: Why I Finally Started Pruning My Tomatoes (And What Happened)
I grew tomatoes for four years without ever pruning a sucker. Turns out I was growing a lot of plant and not a lot of tomatoes. Here’s what changed and why it matters right now in July.
