Gardening tips, ideas, and thoughts for the home gardener.
Posted in Tomatoes, Vegetable Gardening on Nov 28th, 2009
For most gardeners, establishing tomatoes in the home garden involves purchasing or growing transplants from seed. I personally like using transplants that I purchase. They are easy and ready to go into the ground as soon as they are brought home to my garden. If you have used transplants from your local garden center in [...]
Posted in Gardening Podcasts, Tomatoes, Vegetable Gardening on Nov 16th, 2009
In this episode of The Gardening Everyday Podcast I cover the basics of fertilizing tomatoes organically. I’ve written an ebook entitled “How To Produce 15-25 Pounds Of Ripe, Juicy Tomatoes PER PLANT – 15 Tips and Secrets Revealed” and in this edition of the podcast I dicuss Tip #9 – All natural, all the [...]
Posted in Garden Prep, Vegetable Gardening on Nov 11th, 2009
Note: This is part three in a multi part series aimed at helping gardeners start a new vegetable garden. Look for links at the bottom of the article to the other segments of this report.
Site Preparation
If you have gone through all the steps to choose a great location and size for your vegetable garden, you [...]
Posted in Garden Prep, Vegetable Gardening on Nov 9th, 2009
Note:This is part two in a multi part series aimed at helping gardeners start a new vegetable garden. Look for links at the bottom of the article to the other segments of this report.
Garden Size Considerations
Before we move on to site preparation, you should consider how big you want your garden to be. If you [...]
Posted in Garden Planning, Vegetable Gardening on Nov 8th, 2009
Several years ago I had the crazy idea to try to make some money from my garden. I knew from my employment background at the time as a research assistant at the Noble Foundation that many small farmers were making good money selling vegetables. In particular, tomatoes were known to be a great crop. So [...]
