The Vine Truth About Tomato Cages
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.
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Don’t Rush Your Tomatoes (They Will Remember)
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.
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Saving Thanksgiving rosemary and sage cuttings by cloning
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…
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How to make Homemade pumpkin bread
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…
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Start cheap herb garden this thanksgiving using cuttings
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…
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When to start garden seeds indoors: Seed starting calculator
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,…
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Opening weekend at the farmers market
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.
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Chicken coop and chicken update
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…)…
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Countdown for chicken coop
width=”549″ height=”309″ /> This weekend we picked up our chicks at Keep It Simple Farm. Our three kids, my two nieces, and one of my daughter’s friends each picked out a chick and we ended up with one Silkie and five Ffrizzles. They are currently two weeks old so I now have four weeks to finish building a chicken coop. Fortunately the first weekend was very productive. My design…
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Mantis 4-cycle tiller/cultivator review – Day 1
width=”350″ height=”418″ /> A week before I was about to move to my new house with a much larger yard I got an email from the nice people at Mantis asking if I would like to review their 4 cycle tiller/cultivator. Given I needed to start from scratch of a new garden and had a decent amount of land to use it on it sounded like a great idea….
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The Cheap Vegetable Gardener has moved
width=”549″ height=”309″ /> So after decades of living in home in suburbia with a minimal amount of land this month I have moved to a new location where we have 1 acre of land to work with. Great news is there is awesome potential for gardening here, it also means I have to start over from scratch leaving my previous more mature plants behind… Though this definitely provides me…
