Hi everyone, hoping you can give me somes ideas ( Read more... )

On June 6th I posted asking advice about flea beetles ( Read more... )

Like most organic gardeners, I have a bit of an obsession with composting. Usually this time of year, green material is in fairly short supply. Sadly, in a way, not this year. At the community garden where I have a plot, this year many new gardeners are keeping the trash bins full of weeds and other green material ( Read more... )

I've started two new gardens this year, in the closest thing to pure potter's clay I've seen ( Read more... )

I picked the first tomatoes of the season today. June 12th is pretty good for zone 6 Md. I picked one Roma and a handful of cherry tomatoes. This year I tried those "Wall o Water ( Read more... )

Thanks everyone for your ideas on treating flea beetles on potatoes and eggplant. I've decided to try deet on the potatoes and cayene\garlic on the eggplant.

I have an infestation of flea beetles on both my potatoes and eggplant. I try to avoid spraying pesticides, even organic pesticides so I'm trying alternatives first, but I wonder if anyone has any success getting them to relocate by spraying garlic, mint and\or onion concotions on the plants?

Failing that does anyone have experience using neem or

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One of the things that I enjoy about the gardening coms on LJ is reading about the different methods that other gardeners successfully use ( Read more... )

I have some nice healthy sweet potato starts that need to go into the ground in a week or two. From what I've read sweet potatoes grow best in fairly light poor soil. I'm thinking along the lines of digging a patch of my clay up, adding copious amounts of peat moss, some lime, and a little bit of mineral powders and manure. What do you think ( Read more... )