What’s in the ground:
I hope everyone is keeping up on your succession planting. People tend to plant their garden and think that they are finished, but a garden is a process, or better yet a cycle, for every plant you take out you need to put one in. So as the “excessive heat” warning sets [...]

What’s in the ground:
I know that I’ve been a big proponent of not over watering, but as I said in that blog, tomatoes are a whole different story. They are %85 water, so they need to be soaked regularly. However, the main problem gardeners run into is not over watering, but watering the wrong way. [...]

What’s in the ground:
Now is the time to take a good look at your plants in the garden and check their growth. Every gardener should take a walk through the garden at least once a week, but now it is even more important. If you have broccoli that still has not headed up, or you [...]

What’s in the ground:
If you got a good jump on the growing season, you should be harvesting all of your root vegetables by now. It’s important to keep up on your harvest because radishes and beets can get pretty nasty if left in too long. You should now be sowing your next succession of crops [...]

What’s in the ground:
We just lined our fence with sunflowers. They are small now, but when they grow, they’ll create a great barrier from the smog of the street, a great source for pollination and will look amazing. They’re a great flower for a fence line.
What’s going on in sustainability:
I’ve been on this water kick [...]

What’s in the ground:
As I always shamefully admit, even though I work for the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, I am really weak in the field of horticulture, as my strength is in agriculture. But that doesn’t mean I’m not learning. This past week we transplanted the 48 sunflower’s we started in egg cartons. We plan on [...]

What’s in the ground:
The fun thing about growing food is that our schedules don’t run on those normal things like dates and deadlines. We like to operate on a more traditional schedule. By Mid Atlantic standards, mother’s day has passed, and with that, the fear of frost leaving us a nice warm soil. So, yes, [...]

What’s in the ground:
Hopefully anything you’ve transplanted is looking great and you’re having a lot of success with any seeds you germinated directly in the soil. But even if your transplants took or your seeds popped through, but they don’t seem to be growing at the rate you’d expect, shocking your plants with some fertilizer [...]

What’s in the ground:
Just a few more weeks to hold off until those nightshades are going in. But if you’re looking for something to do and watching your kale grow is just not satisfying enough, do your beets, radishes and carrots a favor and thin them out. When you don’t you get those stubby little [...]

What’s in the ground:
I was very excited this week to make a really cool leap in sustainability and sow my own garbanzo beans. It’s funny because everyone every year plants pole beans, bush beans, green beans, and I love how well they fix nitrogen in the soil and get the space ready for some ripping [...]