Garden Capacity

tomato plants in raised beds

When it comes to growing your own food, exactly how much garden capacity do you need?

Tomato Plant Take-Over

If I tell you that the only vegetable garden space I have is right now totally used up by my tomato plants, which produce just a handful of tomatoes a day, you’ll see [...]

Going to Seed?

weeds or food?

“Don’t let your vegetables go to seed. Going to seed is bad.” I’ve no clue where I picked up this piece of gardening advice. Maybe it was a confusion on my part. Vegetables like lettuce taste bad when they go to seed, but going to seed isn’t bad. Nope, it’s not.

Grow Food [...]

July Harvest, July Planting

July tomato harvest

Here is the first of my July harvest, my first tomato of the season (that’s a quarter in the photo to show the scale). It was juicy and slightly tart with a chewy skin. Mmm…

July Harvest

Here is a list of farm produce to expect in Eastern Kansas for July harvest: Basil, Beans, [...]

Garden Therapy

my neighbor's tree is shading my garden

If you’ve ever read The Secret Garden I’m pretty sure there will be no doubt in your mind that gardening can be therapeutic. But did you know there is actually such a thing as garden therapy? How does that sound for a career choice?

I happened to meet a [...]

Sick Grapes and Bad Tomatoes

black rot on grapes

It’s a sad story, a bad tale to tell, a tale of woe, weeping, and gnashing of teeth. It’s the tale of the sick grapes and the bad tomatoes and… it’s happening in my garden. Still, I think I’ll survive. But thank goodness I’m not depending on the produce of my [...]