How to Use a Garden Tiller to Create Perfect Garden Beds
Oh, the perfect garden bed. 'Tis a dream of every gardener. But if you're used to using a hoe, rake, spade, or other hand tools, a garden tiller, despite its …
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YOU DEFINITELY NEED A TRACTOR!
"You need a tractor!" Pam, the X-ray tech at my clinic, sounds like a farmer evangelist whenever she brings up tractors. Her excitement matches my own enthusiasm for the nineteen …
A Giant Pumpkin Tale
This article was originally published in our sister publication, GreenPrints Magazine, under the title, “Our Great Giant Pumpkin.” It was written by Jan Canyon and was published originally in 2019, …
Vegetable Gardening for Dummies: The Tiller
At times when I'm in the garden, I feel like I could be the star of any story about vegetable gardening for dummies. Most of the time I know what …
Dealing with Wheat Diseases
Like all food crops, wheat is susceptible to various fungal diseases. Your best weapons against these are making sure your seeds are disease-free to begin with (as many wheat diseases …
Planting Wheat in the Ground
Wheat requires full sun to thrive—a minimum of six hours of direct sunlight and eight or more is better. Your soil should be fairly neutral, about 6.0 to 7.0 pH …
3 Tools Needed to Start a Garden and 3 You Really Don’t Need
When I started my very first vegetable garden, I must have lingered in my garden center’s aisles for over an hour trying to figure out what were the tools needed …
Our Great Giant Pumpkin
It all started when my newly minted husband, Paul, and I bought our first house. We stood on the back porch, surveying our empty yard. There were no trees, no …
Our First Tiller
My husband and I both grew up in the mountains of eastern Kentucky. Now you have to understand that in eastern Kentucky, a garden is an essential part of life. …
