potato plants
My potato plants were doing very well, then in the past week, one by one, plants are looking like they are wilting or in desperate need of water, yet potato plants right beside them are thriving. Within one week, half…
Tag Archives: vegetable garden
Rubber Tire Pellet Mulch
We bought a house this past winter and just moved in a couple of weeks ago. This past weekend, we finally started working in our yard. To our horror, we realized that the landscaped garden was covered in brown rubber…
Grow Me Some Veggies
I would like to pay someone to turn some seeds I have into veggies for me to eat.…
Vegetable Garden and Cedar Hedge*
A cedar hedge frames my neighbor’s back yard, and my vegetable garden runs down the property line, in full sun. My garden is 20+ years old and the cedar was planted three seasons ago. I have read that cedar will…
Hyacinth Vines + Seed Collection*
I planted some hyacinth vines in my garden this year and they are now producing seed pods. Do I pick those pods now and dry them indoors or wait until they wither on the vine ?…
Growing Zuccini, No Female Flowers
I have deep wood container boxes. They are large 8ft by 5ft about. I am in Haliburton. I have planted zuccini two years in a row and get lots of only male flowers. The stem of the plant coming out…
Vegetable Growing
I had a few failures with my vegetable planting this past year that I am hoping to rectify this year. I have wooden L-shaped planters on my deck that get 2-4 hours of sun (although it can be shady sun…
Pressure treated wood – proximity to raised veggie bed *
I have a 20 year old pressure treated wood fence that I know was treated with the now banned process that allowed arsenic to leach into the soil. I want to create a raised veggie garden against the fence. Should…
When to Plant Onion Sets?
I have a garden at the Leslie Street Allotment Gardens in Toronto. It has raised beds. Can you advise when is the earliest I could plant “onion sets”?
Each year I start looking to buy the sets in late March…