This is my first year planting leeks so I do not claim to be an expert. But I am liking the way our leeks look heading into the summer. These were planted March 8 from seed at the bottom of a long trench I dug out of one of our vegetable beds. Yesterday I spent some time weeding, […]
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Do you prune your tomato plants? In the past, we enclosed our tomatoes in big cages made of concrete reinforcing wire and let then grow wild. By mid-summer, they didn’t look great–all that wilted foliage–but they were making great tomatoes. So who cares what they look like? Well, this year we decided to try a […]
I’ve grown to hate most watering equipment–sprinklers, watering wands, sprayers–for the simple reason that they all fall apart. I can count on having to purchase a new watering wand, for instance, every year. Sprinklers also have been a huge disappointment. Some years ago I found one with flexible settings: You could adjust not only the arc […]
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