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Hydroponic Vegetable Garden Puts Food on the Table
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Growing vegetable crops without soil is practiced around the world from household systems up to large commercial vertical farms. Meet Vilma and Dave Anderson, my friends and fellow vegetable gardeners, who introduced me to their successful, home-made hydroponics set-up. Water…
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Leafy Greens for the Summer Garden
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The end of the spring lettuce and spinach harvest doesn’t mean we have to wait until fall to enjoy home-grown leafy greens. In addition to the kales and collards we know and love there is a world of heat tolerant…
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening Tags: Author:Jon, Food Gardening, Leafy, Lettuce, Summer
Pollinators and Food Gardens
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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N. estimates that at least 75% of the world’s food crops depend, at least in part, on pollinators. Honey bees and a host of native bees, beetles, and butterflies are essential for pollinating…
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening Tags: Author:Jon, bees, Food Gardening, Pollinators
Improve Your Soil by Growing Soil Microbes
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As a non-soil scientist who loves to explore and learn about soil, I was quite shocked to read last year that humus, as it’s commonly understood, does not exist in nature. What, no humus? How can that be? What is…
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening, Lawn & Garden Tags: Author:Jon, humus, Soil
Tulsi Basil and Anise Hyssop: Easy, Useful, and Adaptable
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My brother mailed me some anise hyssop seeds 20+ years ago and a UM student gave me two tulsi basil plants several years ago at “Maryland Day” on the College Park campus. I am deeply indebted to them both for…
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening Tags: Anise Hyssop, Author:Jon, Basil, Hyssop
Light Choices for Starting Plants Indoors
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There seem to be new lighting choices for indoor plant growing every year. If you’ve been starting annual flower and vegetable plants indoors you probably learned early on that natural light entering through windows is hardly ever adequate. Some type…
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening, Lawn & Garden Tags: Author:Jon, grow lights, indoor gardening, indoor plants, starting seeds
2018 Vegetable Garden Re-cap
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This is a good time to think about what worked and what didn’t work so well in our 2018 garden spaces. What was unexpected, which weeds and diseases were challenging, how can we prevent problems and have greater success next…
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening Tags: Author:Jon, Diseases, Tomatoes
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