The Cheap Vegetable Gardener
The post Let It Bolt: Free Seed from Lettuce and Cilantro appeared first on The Cheap Vegetable Gardener. Every July I watch at least one person in the neighborhood Facebook group post a sad photo of their lettuce sending up a two-foot flower stalk, asking what went wrong. And every July I have to...
The Cheap Vegetable Gardener
The post Cheap Shade Cloth for Hot PNW Summers appeared first on The Cheap Vegetable Gardener. We got four days in a row above 90 degrees last July and I lost two full rows of lettuce and every single pea plant I had. Just stood there in the garden looking at a pile of yellow sadness. That loss is...
The Cheap Vegetable Gardener
The post July Seeds for Fall Harvest: The Window Most Miss appeared first on The Cheap Vegetable Gardener. Every July I watch my neighbors wrap up their spring planting and mentally check out until next year. And I get it. It’s warm, the tomatoes are finally doing something, and starting seeds...