by Stephanie Suesan Smith | Oct 13, 2010 | 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...
by Stephanie Suesan Smith | Sep 30, 2010 | okra
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...
by Stephanie Suesan Smith | Sep 22, 2010 | carrots
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...
by Stephanie Suesan Smith | Sep 21, 2010 | tomatoes
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...
by Stephanie Suesan Smith | Sep 6, 2010 | Asparagus
Green and blanched asparagus spears Asparagus is delicious. They are also expensive. The ones you get in the store have been transported long distances and are not at all like the ones you get from your own garden. While asparagus has a reputation of being hard to...
by Stephanie Suesan Smith | Aug 30, 2010 | beets
Beets are nice because you can eat both the tops, as greens, and the bottoms as root vegetables. About ten feet of row will feed the average person per gardening season. Since beets can be canned, pickled, or eaten fresh, you can have some all year. Where...
