Maryland Grows
Category: Food Gardening
Frightfully fun jack-o’-lantern lore
Spooky or silly? How do you carve your jack-o’-lantern? Whether you go for fun or fright, jack-o’-lantern carving is a family-friendly way to mark the season. Have you ever wondered how the tradition got started? As with much folklore, it…
Read MoreStarting a compost pile and planting cover crops – winding down the vegetable garden for the year
After a fun year of building support structures and growing really long squash, it was time to wind down the garden. Our first baby was born (thank you, thank you), and we had no further bandwidth or ambition to continue…
Read MorePlants not behaving as expected: vegetable garden edition
Two of the vegetable crops I grew this year are known for loving the heat: okra and eggplant. I grow eggplant in pots on my deck, to avoid flea beetle infestation, and okra directly in the ground in my community…
Read MoreThe Heirloom Collards Project
I am way late to the party on this (it happened in December 2020) but recently I’ve caught up on watching the videos connected with Collard Week. This is part of the Heirloom Collards Project, an ongoing collaboration between Southern…
Read MoreSquash vine borers and squash bugs: two garden villains!
My squash and zucchini have been breeding grounds for these two garden pests in past years. They also have confused me because I tend to conflate the two or have mixed up which one I’m searching for information on online….
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