by Stephanie Suesan Smith | Apr 25, 2011 | eggplant
Eggplant, along with tomatoes and potatoes, is part of the deadly nightshade family. Many people enjoy growing the purple or white globes and making such things as eggplant parmesan, ratatouille, and fried eggplant. If you are one of those people, here is how to...
by Stephanie Suesan Smith | Apr 15, 2011 | gardening101
I frequently receive comments that someone would like to have a garden but they do not have the space. It doesn’t take a lot of space to grow a few vegetables. In square foot gardening, Mel Bartholomew developed an easy-to-use method of intensive cultivation...
by Stephanie Suesan Smith | Mar 30, 2011 | tomatoes
Healed graft on tomato Photo by Caryrivard As I mentioned in my last post, Territorial Seed Company is now selling grafted tomatoes. According to research being done by Ohio State University, tomatoes that are good to eat can be grafted onto rootstock that is disease...
by Stephanie Suesan Smith | Mar 28, 2011 | tomatoes
Healed graft on tomato Photo by Caryrivard When I first heard of grated tomatoes, I thought it was a marketing ploy. Why graft a plant that only lives one season then dies? It turns out, though, that grafted tomatoes address real problems that market farmers have. ...
by Stephanie Suesan Smith | Mar 14, 2011 | entomology
A juvenile root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne incognita) penetrates a tomato root on Jan. 24, 2013. Once inside, the juvenile, which also attacks cotton roots, causes a gall to form and robs the plant of nutrients Photo by William Wergin and Richard Sayre. Colorized by...
