by Stephanie Suesan Smith | Oct 3, 2010 | compost
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....
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 23, 2010 | organic gardening
Image via Wikipedia Organic gardening, at its simplest, is gardening using only substances occurring in nature. No synthetic compounds are allowed. This means pesticides and fertilizers must be made of naturally occurring substances. Of course, it...
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...
