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Dealing With Hot Pepper Diseases

Dealing With Hot Pepper Diseases

Like all food crops, hot peppers are susceptible to various fungal diseases. Your greatest weapons against these are best planting practices, which help prevent disease in the first place. This  
7 Tips for Micro-Gardening Indoors

7 Tips for Micro-Gardening Indoors

Micro-gardening? Yeah, it's pretty much what it sounds like, although micro-gardening indoors is somewhat of a variation on the original design. The idea of micro-gardening began as a way to  
What to Do With Extra Garden Vegetables

What to Do With Extra Garden Vegetables

Some years, everything comes together. The temperature is just right, the humidity is perfect, your watering system is spot on, the pests leave your garden alone while the bees and  
Life Savers

Life Savers

served as a British soldier for more than two decades. When I was discharged, I was physically fine but—as I realized later—mentally broken. Things I’d blocked out at the time  
French Onion Soup

French Onion Soup

Everybody knows Paris is the center of the gastronomic universe, so it’s no surprise that the French can make something so decadent out of something as simple as onions! In  
Bounty

Bounty

A hot, wet Spring yielded small, intensely sweet strawberries. We ate gallons of them—in homemade ice cream or over fresh warm shortcake, sure, but mostly right out of the bowl,  
Five Little Pumpkins

Five Little Pumpkins

The plan for our family stay-at-home garden last Summer started with two raised beds. Little plastic prefab things, 4 feet by 4 feet, cheerfully plopped on a sunny spot behind  
Dealing with Radish Diseases

Dealing with Radish Diseases

Like all food crops, radishes are susceptible to various fungal diseases, however they’re quite the tough crop. Because of their short growing period, they don’t have much time to develop