How To Remove Voles From Your Garden
This year I have been dealing with an infestation of voles in my garden. As I said before, I believe this is a result of sheet mulching–the layers of paper …
Gardening
Planting A Vegetable Garden: The Soil
It’s mid-March. Next month, I will plant my vegetable garden. That means that right now I’m starting some seedlings inside the house, thinking about what I want to plant, and …
How To Plant A Tomato Plant
People ask me how I get 5-foot tomato plants loaded with fruit. I use my dad’s method. The secret ingredient? Cow manure. Tomatoes like a lot of fertilizer, so I …
Results Of My Zucchini Plant Experiment
I tried an experiment on my zucchini plants. In the past, I’ve always put a little bit of steer manure mixed with dirt around the roots of my zucchini plants …
Grow A Sunflower House
Remember how I told you about growing a bean teepee for the kids to play in this year? Well here’s a similar idea: grow a sunflower house. To make it, …
Keeping Ants Off Fruit Trees
Ants, man. They are my garden nemesis. I’m getting better at killing them but they can still do a lot of damage if you let them. They don’t just put …
How To Get Rid Of Outdoor Ants
I always say I live on top of an anthill. Truly, the number of ants in my yard is amazing. They don’t invade my house, but they love to destroy …
Make Your Own Olla
I’ve talked about irrigating your garden with clay pots before. You can use an unglazed terracotta pot called an olla, which you bury in the ground and fill with water. …
2015 Garden Tour Part 3
See 2015 Garden Tour Part 1 Here. See 2015 Garden Tour Part 2 Here. Elsewhere in the garden: Fruit! All new this year, I’m getting apples, nectarines, currants, grapes, and …
2015 Garden Tour Part 2
See Garden Tour Part 1 Here. BOX 4: This is the busiest box in the garden. In addition to growing spinach under a mesh food cover, it has French green …
2015 Garden Tour Part 1
This is shaping up to be an odd year in the garden. Lots of strange things are emerging, and I’m excited to see where they go. It never ceases to …