In A Pickle Over Blight – for Sep. 23, 2010

Disheartened to see our garden tomatoes infected with blight this year, but determined to salvage something, I took the least-damaged green fruits (nothing ripened this year!), cut off the blemishes and proceeded to can twenty 500-ml jars of green tomato pickle. It was only after the last lid snapped, that I began to wonder: even

Fun Ideas For “Crazy” Container Plantings

NATIONAL GARDEN BUREAU Hanging basket – Cherry tomatoes. Vines will hang down over the sides. Large sweater boxes – Great for a hodgepodge of lettuce or mesclun. Old buckets – One tomato or pepper plant. Sow cilantro around it. Whiskey barrels – One winter squash plant. An old boot – One Swiss chard plant. A


Start Tomato Seeds Soon

Tomato seed should be sown no sooner than four to six weeks before the last spring frost. Plant the seed thinly, covering with a soilless mix to a depth of one-quarter inch, and use a mild fertilizer of one level teaspoon of 20 20 20 dissolved in two gallons of water at each watering. Keep