Every year, I can tomatoes for the winter. Some of my favorite summer memories are of my family canning tomatoes, green beans, and other fruits and
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This Week in the Garden
This week I harvested my first tomatoes. As usual, some of my plants appear to be diseased and are dying, but I hope I have
It’s Time to Harvest Garlic
During my childhood, garlic’s only presence in my life was in a small red-topped McCormick container in my mother’s spice cabinet. My mother rarely used
Suggestions for Plants That Like Our Heat
Summer is here, early, it seems, and any cool-weather plants I had not already replaced with heat-tolerant ones are unhappy. My peas are dead, and
What Are These Grubs Called?
Last summer, I found these larvae, or grubs, or whatever they are called, living underneath and inside a black plastic bag I put broccoli plants