The weather is getting hot, so we thought it might be a good time to highlight some of our favorite heat tolerant greens for those summer salads. As you might know, most typical salad greens are cool weather, short day crops. They do not perform well in intense heat, and the long days make them…
Category: Gardening
How To Build A T-Trellis
If you are interested in growing kiwi, grapes, or another large vine, you will need a sturdy trellis. When growing a fruiting crop you need a trellis strong enough to hold not only the weight of the vine, but also the weight of the fruit. Having a properly constructed, sturdy trellis is the key harvesting…
Those Little Green Bugs Covering Your Plant Are Aphids
Aphids. If you have been gardening for any amount of time you have probably seen them. Fortunately, while unsightly, they are not as much of a concern to the health of your plants as many other pests. In most cases, they will not actually cause any damage to the health of your plants. Because of…
How Do I Know If My Passion Flower Produces Fruit?
We get asked a lot of questions about passion fruit. What variety to grow for fruit? Does this hybrid fruit? Can I grow fruit in my climate? Will these two plants pollinate each other to produce fruit? Can I make my own hybrids? And the list goes on. So today, we thought we would take…
Right Plant, Right Place. How To Select Plants For Your Garden
Those beautiful gardens you admire in your neighborhood and magazines don’t happen by chance. A lot of planning goes into planting a garden. Additionally, it takes a lot of labor and money, so money, so here are some tips on how you can avoid being disappointed when plants you purchased fail to thrive or die….
Wilts: How Can My Healthy Plant Suddenly Be Dead?
Last time we talked about root rot, and how one of the main symptoms is a plant that wilts down, never recovers and eventually dies. We mentioned that there were also other kinds of wilts including ones vectored by insects. While these wilts are also caused by bacteria and fungi, they are not quite the…
Root Rot Could Be What Is Killing Your Plants
Do you have a plant that wilted down and never recovered despite you watering it when you noticed it was wilted? Or is your plant experiencing dieback? Does it have yellow leaves and stunted growth? If so. you are likely dealing with root rot. As passion flower growers, root rot is something we are always…
The Harlequin Bug: A Closer Look At This Beautiful Pest
Have you have ever grown any kind of Brassica crop? Did you encounter a gaudy black and orange bug that is shaped like a stink bug on your broccoli or cauliflower plants? If so, this was the Harlequin bug, and it is a major pest of Brassica crops in the southern United States. It is…
Help! Something Is Eating My Broccoli. Its Cabbage Worms
You planted out these beautiful broccoli plants, and seemingly almost overnight one day the plants are almost completely gone. The leaves have been stripped back to just the stems. What happened? What do you do? Your plants were likely eaten by cabbage worms. Now saying cabbage worms is a bit inaccurate. These caterpillars feed on…
How To Improve Your Garden By Knowing Your Soil pH
Do you have a plant that looks nutrient deficient regardless of how much fertilizer you apply? Are your plant’s leaves yellow with green veins? Is the new growth growing in almost white? If so, you likely have a soil pH problem. Nutrient levels, drainage, soil texture, and light exposure probably get more attention than soil…