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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
Salad Tables 2.0
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This is a good time of year for cleaning up tools, getting containers ready for starting plants, and maybe even building a Salad Table! The first University of Maryland salad tables were constructed at the Home & Garden Information Center…
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening Tags: Author:Jon, row covers, Salad Tables
Seeds and Seed Catalog Jargon
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Seed catalogs arrive this time of year with appealing photos of vegetable crops that buoy our hopes for a bountiful garden. The sheer number of vegetable, flower, and herb offerings is breathtaking, with seed companies offering 20 to 40 new…
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening, Lawn & Garden Tags: Author:Jon, seeds, starting seeds
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