Burying tomatoes deep sounds wrong the first time you do it. Turns out it’s one of the easiest ways to get a stronger, more productive plant, and it costs nothing extra. Here’s how I do it in Redmond every May.
In zone 8b, tomatoes want soil that’s consistently 60 degrees before transplanting, and April in Redmond almost never gets you there. Here’s how to check, how to speed it up a little, and why the calendar is not your friend.
Store-bought tomato cages fold over by August and cost way too much to do it so dramatically. Here are the cheap alternatives that actually hold up, including the one made from concrete reinforcing wire that costs about $2.19 per cage and lasts forever.
Those flimsy green wire tomato cages from the hardware store cost $4 and fall over by August. Here are five cheaper alternatives that actually hold up an indeterminate tomato without embarrassing everyone involved.
April in Redmond feels like spring but the soil hasn’t gotten the memo yet. Here’s why rushing your tomato transplants costs you time instead of saving it, and the one number worth checking before you dig that hole.
srcset=”https://i0.wp.com/www.cheapvegetablegardener.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/RosemaryCloning.png?w=1018&ssl=1 1018w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cheapvegetablegardener.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/RosemaryCloning.png?resize=300%2C245&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cheapvegetablegardener.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/RosemaryCloning.png?resize=768%2C628&ssl=1 768w” sizes=”auto, (max-width: 1018px) 100vw, 1018px” /> Hey, everyone! I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving with your loved ones. Sage and Rosemary are two repeating ingredients in which I typically would get from my herb garden but appears I was a bit lapsed on my watering this summer and plants didn’t make it, so I was forced to buy some fresh herbs from…
After having an abundance of cooked pumpkin after over purchasing on a couple of organic pie pumpkins I decided to make some pumpkin bread, here is the recipe I have always had great results with. Ingredients 2 cups cooked pumpkin plus 1 cup or water or 16 oz can of canned pumpkin plus 1.25 cups water 3.5 cups all purpose flour 2 tsp. baking soda 3 cups sugar 4…
Each thanksgiving I always end up buying rosemary and sage for our turkey dinner always having thoughts that I should plant some next spring…winter happens then of course I forget until next thanksgiving… This year I got a bit more proactive and decided to just start the plants now using cuttings from fresh herbs I purchased from the grocery store. I have done this before with mint and actually…
When you start seeds indoors in a vegetable garden, it can be difficult getting your schedule down to ensure that start your vegetable seeds with enough lead time that they are mature enough to venture outside but also not so large they take over your growing area. Personally this has been a difficult part for me where I am really good getting the early vegetables started on time (onions, peppers,…
We actually had some great weather the first couple weekends of the farmers market. We got our typical early season purchases (kettle corn and apples) though also got some strangely slightly higher priced flowers for mothers day. Though we did learn something important after our first visit…be sure to not eat right before going to the farmers market and stay hungry for the great food.
Well good news I got the chicken coop done just in time for the little guys to move out there this weekend. In all I like how it turned out and for now feel it should be pretty secure with the solid floor, elevated coop, and entirely wrapped in 1/2 inch hardware cloth (a bit pricey but probably worth the cost of waking up to raccoons in the coop…)…