The 2008 vegetable gardening year has been full of surprises. I can’t seem to get a decent tomato, snow peas produced from April until mid-August, bush beans turned into climbing beans, green beans produced yellow wax beans, brussel sprouts turned into cabbage, and the list goes on. What to remember? Every year is different and [...]

Anyone who gardens in Seattle knows that tomatoes can be difficult to cultivate successfully. I’ve lived in the South East and the South West of the US, and in those long, hot summers there’s no stopping the bounty of ripening tomatoes all summer long. As I’ve come to understand that Seattle summers are late to [...]

W. Maalouf of Marshall, VA asks:
“We have a two year old fruit cherry tree orchard. I had business out of the country, so asked my 19 year son to be sure to spray the trees when I was gone because there were worms and the start of the Japanese Beatles. Anyway..I just got home and [...]

A fellow horty recently emailed me a link to the UVA newspaper  that reported earlier this spring that pollution is reducing the fragrance in flowers. In turn they have linked the reduction in flower fragrance to the diminishing populations of bees.
Unfortunately, the diminishing bee populations are becoming more and more apparent to me in my own [...]