When to plant vegetables
Please tell me when we can plant vegetables on the ground for this year
Vegetables like peppers, tomatoes, eggplant cucumber, lettuce, beans
Thanks in advance…
Tag Archives: vegetable garden
Flea Beetles
I am getting ready to plant radishes, arugula and lettuce in raised planters with potting soil. Last year my radishes and arugula were attacked by Flea beetles. Is there anything I can do to prevent and control them? I live…
Converting sandbox into a vegetable garden
I would like to convert my son’s old built-in sandbox into a vegetable garden. It is located in a part of our backyard where it gets a lot of sun each day. It was built with plywood at the bottom.…
Tomato and Pepper plants indoor dieback
Last year when I was starting peppers and tomatoes in an indoor electrically lighted/heated area when I experienced a big yellowing phenomena in primarily tomatoes and peppers. My watermellons also suffered, but I think I started them too early, so…
Cover crops to plant in Spring in Toronto backyard veggie bed
Hi, I live in North York in Toronto and would like to enrich my backyard vegetable garden soil prior to planting tomatoes, leafy greens, zucchini, beans and herbs. Which cover crop would be best suited and would grow quickly enough…
Kale Insects
I live in north Toronto. Have 8 different kinds of herbs in my backyard garden and all are doing well BUT something is eating the kale really badly. See the attached pictures. Any idea what it is and how to…
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…
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…
