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Food gardening between growing seasons
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Late fall feels like a bridge between growing seasons. Walking in my garden I love to feel the earth and see the big and small day-to-day changes. I also think about the ups and downs of the 2020 growing season…
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening Tags: Author:Jon, Overwintering, winter
New Vegetable Gardeners Face Old Problems
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“What’s that bug doing on my bean plants”? “Should I be worried by these droopy leaves”? “Help – the lower leaves on my container tomato plants are turning yellow. What should I do?” HGIC is receiving many questions from first-time…
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening Tags: Author:Jon, diagnose plant problems, Vegetable
Tomato Tips 2020
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Your tomato plants survived the spring’s extreme and variable weather and are now dark-green, vigorous, and full of promise. You may have even started picking a few ripe fruits of early-maturing cultivars, especially if you garden on the Eastern Shore…
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening Tags: Author:Jon, Tomatoes
Vegetable plants to gardener: “feed me and I’ll feed you”
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You’re getting ready to plant vegetable seeds and transplants for the first time and trying to make sense of the conflicting advice you’ve been getting from HGIC, a neighbor, and your brother-in-law. You want to grow your vegetables organically but…
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening Tags: Author:Jon, fertilizer
Hey new vegetable gardener: some things you can expect…
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Welcome to the ranks of Maryland food gardeners. We live in every zip code and grow food in buckets on rooftops, in community garden plots, in front and back yards, and in large rural gardens. Rest assured, you will sweat…
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening Tags: Author:Jon, vegetables
Potatoes Grow in Bags at Project Spudnik
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Container gardening is wildly popular these days. Type “grow potatoes in containers” and your search engine will return over 7 million web pages. Six years ago, Sherrill Munn, a UME Master Gardener in Calvert Co., developed a fun and challenging…
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Basil Bounces Back With Downy Mildew Resistant Cultivars
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Basil downy mildew arrived in the U.S. (Florida) in 2007 and has been devastating Italian sweet basil crops in Maryland and other states ever since. The disease (technically a water mold) can only survive on live basil plants so it…
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening Tags: Author:Dave Clement, Author:Jon, Basil, downy mildew
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