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Resisting Mosaic Viruses in Cucurbits
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I grow most of my vegetables in a community garden plot: sunny, cheerful, with soil I’ve been improving with free compost for years now. It’s a good situation, but while community gardeners can share labor, tools, plants and seeds, they…
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening Tags: Author:Erica, community garden, Cucumbers, cucurbits, mosaic virus, Squash
How to Choose a Seed Catalog
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Like holiday decorations, seed catalogs seem to arrive earlier every year. They bring a bit of color and freshness into a cold and often dreary season, and winter gives us the perfect chance to sit down and plan next year’s…
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening, Lawn & Garden Tags: Author:Erica, Seed Catalogs, seeds
Indoor cucumbers, and wild cucumber relatives
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This month’s post is Proud Mom Edition. Both my sons enjoy growing plants inside their apartments – all that botanical indoctrination paid off! My younger son, Patrick, has now managed to grow food in his sunny 21st-floor Chicago flat: a…
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening Tags: Author:Erica, Cucumbers, indoor gardening, Mouse Melons
Garden update: beans, eggplant, chard
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This has been a tough year for bean-growing, at least around these parts; both the Derwood Demo Garden and my community garden have seen large populations of Mexican bean beetles, as well as hungry rabbits.
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening Tags: Author:Erica, Beans, Chard, Eggplant, Mexican bean beetles
Garden podcasts: best distraction from the heat
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It’s hot out there! And sure, you don’t need me to tell you that, but that’s what gardeners (and humans) do: interact by complaining about the weather. If you were smart, you got as many of your gardening tasks as…
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening Tags: Author:Erica, podcasts
Tokyo Bekana Greens
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Short post this month with a recommendation! If you like growing leafy greens, particularly the Asian varieties, but sometimes find the taste too bitter or spicy, here’s a good choice: Tokyo Bekana.
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening Tags: Author:Erica, Greens
The Importance of Being Labeled
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Have any of these happened to you? (They have to me.) You sow some Very Important Seeds in a flat or container, and don’t mark them in any way, because they are Very Important and of course you will never…
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening, Lawn & Garden Tags: Author:Erica, labeling
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