The Cheap Vegetable Gardener
The post Tomato Fruit Cracking: Why It Happens and How to Fix It appeared first on The Cheap Vegetable Gardener. I walked out to the garden one July morning and found half my Cherokee Purple had basically exploded overnight. Not dramatically, just that horrible ring of cracks around the top of...
The Cheap Vegetable Gardener
The post Deep Watering: Smarter Summer Watering on a Budget appeared first on The Cheap Vegetable Gardener. July in Redmond means we finally get actual sun, and within about a week I remember that my garden has a drinking problem. Not too much. Not enough. Just constantly wrong. My first couple...
The Cheap Vegetable Gardener
The post Mid-Season Potato Care: Hilling, Water & What’s Normal appeared first on The Cheap Vegetable Gardener. I planted my potatoes in May and then basically ignored them until they looked like jungle plants making a break for it over the edge of the raised bed. That’s when I remembered...