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Growing cucumbers is a gratifying experience. One day, you notice just a few yellow flowers. A few days later, cucumbers start appearing out of nowhere. Before long, you're harvesting enough for salads, sandwiches, and pickles.  Fast forward a few more...

One of the biggest misconceptions about raised bed gardening is that you only need to fill the bed once. With my first raised beds, I filled them with a good soil mix, planted tomatoes, peppers, and herbs, and enjoyed a...

For gardeners, the month of July is all about paying attention. Tomatoes are finally ripening, cucumbers seem to appear overnight, and your beans are climbing higher by the day.  July often brings scorching temperatures, heavy thunderstorms, humidity, and longer dry...

After some years of gardening, I have come to realize how much healthy vegetables depend on healthy soil. One summer, I noticed my tomatoes weren't growing as quickly as usual. The leaves looked healthy enough, but watering seemed strange. Instead...

I hear the same question every summer: "My tomato plant is big...so why am I barely getting any tomatoes?" Usually, the plant is healthy. The leaves are lush and green, and the stems keep growing. But the fruit just isn't...

There's a point every summer when my herb garden seems to grow faster than I can manage it. One week, I'm snipping a few sprigs of basil for the kitchen. By the next, my basil has become a leafy jungle,...

If you have been gardening for a while, you’ve probably experienced this. After weeks of watering, weeding, and watching plants grow, all your plants seem to ripen at once. Tomatoes are piling up, cucumbers keep growing faster than you can...

Few things are more disappointing than spotting a large, beautiful tomato, and then noticing a dark, sunken patch developing on the bottom. The first time I encountered blossom end rot, I assumed my tomato was diseased.  Like many gardeners, I...

By the time July rolls around, the excitement of spring planting has given way to one of the biggest challenges of the gardening season: keeping everything alive through the heat. Tomatoes are loaded with fruit, cucumbers seem to grow overnight,...

Summer is the season when gardens look amazing and full of life, but are also at their most vulnerable. Especially when the weather forecast changes. Thunderstorms might move through the area, bringing heavy rain and gusty winds, and suddenly you're...