Growing Sweet Corn

Sweet Corn photo by Rob Bertholf, CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Sweet corn is one of those things that takes some room to grow correctly.  If you have a small garden, you should probably pass on this vegetable.  If, on...

Beginning Composting

Fresh Compost Do you have one of those little kitchen compost pails someone gave you but have no idea what to do with the contents when it fills up?  Are you afraid you don’t have the stomach to make manure tea?  Confused about composting?  I can help with that....

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...