Growing Okra In The South

Okra photo by Earth100, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Okra is one of the last things to bear in the Southern garden.  Originally from Africa, it just continues to make okra through even the hottest summer.  Still...

Growing Carrots Is Easy

Carrots Growing carrots is not hard if you make sure the soil is well prepared.  Carrots growing in hard clay gumbo will be stunted and look funny.  Carrots grown in rich sandy loam are full of vitamins and taste better than store-bought carrots, which have traveled a...

Tomato Hornworm Pests

Photo by http://www.flickr.com/people/mrbendy/ Tomato hornworms (Manduca quinquemaculata) attack tomatoes and sometimes pepper, eggplant, and potato plants.  They chew up the leaves and fruit and can destroy the crop if not controlled.  This is devastating for the...

Butterfly Gardening

Monarch butterfly on asters in the wind, Danaus plexippus, Aster oblongifolius Butterflies are not as efficient at pollinating plants as bees, but they pollinate many species of plants.  They are also prettier than most bees.  While the Monarch Butterfly is...