Veggie Patch Basics - 7 (Feb-Mar)

This last article in the Vegie Patch Basics series discusses what to do in your food garden in February and March, plus what to do at the end of the season to get ready for the next one. This article completes the one-year Vegie Patch Basics series, an introductory look at growing vegetables, that started in April last year.

Sharing our Hothouse Skills no.2

A meeting of members interested in hothouses last winter was followed by a second session on the subject in the middle of summer. We looked at the host’s hothouse, and everyone had the opportunity to ask hothouse-related questions or discuss successes and failures in their hothouse. This blog post focuses on three topics that were discussed and that might be of interest.

Safe Pest Control - Step 5 and 6

Best-practice safe pest-control for food-gardeners involves six steps (in this order):

1. Make your food garden as healthy as possible 
2. Don’t please your pests 
3. Keep them out 
4. Catch and remove 
5. Is further action needed? 
6. Use a low-impact pesticide 

Step 5 and 6 are discussed below.