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Common Tomato Pests

Common Tomato Pests

At some point in every tomato season, you’ll walk into the garden feeling proud—only to notice something is chewing, sucking, tunneling, or otherwise treating your tomato plants like an all-you-can-eat  …
Growing Meatloaf

Growing Meatloaf

How to Plant a Meatloaf (According to Dad) One sunny April morning, I caught my father kneeling in the bean row with a packet of seeds in one hand and a  …
Winter: Rest, Reflect, Rebuild

Winter: Rest, Reflect, Rebuild

The garden may look quiet under its blanket of snow or mulch, but don’t be fooled—your soil is still alive. Earthworms burrow deeper, microbes slow but don’t stop, and the  …
Fall: Putting the Garden to Bed

Fall: Putting the Garden to Bed

By the time autumn rolls in, gardeners have baskets of tomatoes, jars of pickles, and maybe a little fatigue in their bones. But while the gardener deserves a rest, the  …
March Makes Gardeners Dream Big

March Makes Gardeners Dream Big

Every March, I become a wildly optimistic gardener. It happens the same way each year. One warm-ish afternoon slips between the snowstorms, the air smells faintly like wet soil instead  …
Edamame, Please

Edamame, Please

There are moments in the garden when you know—you just know—that something wonderful is about to happen. For Gail and me, that moment often arrives carrying a colander. We step  …