Over the years we’ve lost many of our tomato seedlings to birds. That’s right. For some reason, birds during spring nesting love to nip the tops off our little tomato plants. Starlings seem to be the worst culprits. They just leave the foliage lying on the ground, the plants to wither and die. Maybe they […]
You’ve probably been asking yourself, What does it take to get The Slow Cook really excited? Oh, nothing more than a bit of row cloth, some plastic tubing and a little sunshine. You see, in years past I’ve tried to start my fall and winter crops in seed trays only to have hateful birds swoop […]
Can the farmer get too much rain? “I haven’t seen anything like this in 10 years,” says Leigh Hauter of our dreary weather lately in the Washington, D.C.area. “This is spring, but you usually have more time to get things in the ground. This is a bad one.” Leigh should be setting his tomatoes and […]
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