Is Rototilling Necessary? To Till or Not to Till Your NJ Garden Beds This Spring
“To grow healthy, productive plants you need healthy, productive soil. It is the organisms in the soil that provide the food plants need, in the …
Category: Organic Gardening
Organic Gardening: Updates from the Experimental NJ Gardeners
What’s happening in your NJ organic garden this July? We cleared the mesclun mix out, after enjoying a full spring’s worth of delicious, fresh salads. …
Harvesting Tomatoes in NJ Zone 6: Q&A
If you’re anything like we are, then you probably spent a good part of your summer watering, watching and waiting for those tomato plants to yield some …
How to Grow Vegetables from Seed
by Maria G. I wrote a recent entry about how I grew some beautiful lettuces from seed. Today, at a garden center, I came upon a …
Growing Vegetables in Shade
A Shady-Yard Vegetable Garden: Is It Possible? A reader emailed us asking if there was any hope for growing garden vegetables in her shady yard, …