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Raised Bed Organic Gardening in NJ Zone 6
Being relatively new gardeners (this is our fifth year of growing organic vegetables here in NJ Zone 6), we occasionally still have to research certain aspects of gardening before being able to write about them. Mid-summer planting was one of them. My mother has been gardening for most of her …
What to do with an Overgrown Vegetable Garden At some point in the heat of summer, you may look at your raised bed vegetable garden and wonder when and how it ended up morphing into an out-of-control jungle. Tomato plants wrapped around each other and everything else, kales shading out …
What does Kale look like? (Kale vs. Collards vs. Swiss Chard) I recently opened my emailed copy of a certain big-name gardening newsletter to discover their big sale on kale. A well-timed message, but there was one problem. The newsletter had pictures of collard greens, not kale! This got me …
Mid July heats up NJ like no other! If you thought it was time to ditch the shovel in favor of sitting in front of the air conditioner, guess again, organic gardener. There’s a whole host of garden veggies that live for the scorching summer weather. What sort of gardening …
It’s important to train your tomato plants to grow up and not drag on the ground. Of course, you can let your tomato plants drag along the ground if you want to, but this will probably reduce the amount of edible fruits and possibly transfer rot and disease to the …
