How to Spot, Treat, and Prevent Tomato Diseases
Tomato plant diseases are caused by bacteria, fungi, and viruses. The diseases can spread through the soil, water, air, infected tools, animals, and even gardeners themselves. …
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Slow Cooker Pork Chops with Mushroom Sauce
Mushrooms and onions are commonly served atop of steak, but they truly shine in this pork chop recipe. All of the flavors really get to know each other in the …
Sweet Potato and Hot Italian Sausage Casserole
While you wait for the traditional brown sugar sweet potato casserole topped with marshmallows at Thanksgiving, try this hearty casserole instead. The sweetness of the potatoes perfectly balances the spicy …
Classic Cincinnati Chili
If you’ve had Cincinnati Chili, you know that the cinnamon and chili spice combination is hard to beat! Make your own with this recipe and serve over noodles. …
Gardening on Wheels
The first time I got interested in growing something I was 7 or 8. I saw my mom break a leaf off her philodendron and put it in water …
Memories and Butterflies
Some of my earliest memories, from the 1950s, are of my mother’s huge garden, necessitated by the need to feed 11 children on a small farm in southern Minnesota. On …
Easy Chicken Macaroni Salad
Pasta salad or chicken salad? Why not both! This Easy Chicken Macaroni Salad recipe is the perfect side dish to your summer meals. Chicken and macaroni are a match made …
My Expensive Hill Farming Habit
In Vermont the words “hill farm” mean different things to different people. To visitors, especially those so besotted with the rolling green mountains that they start perusing the real estate …
The Secret Garden
Much though I love the book, as a scientist I’ve always been suspicious of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden. For those gardeners who haven’t read it, this is the …
