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The post Yellowing Tomato Leaves: What They’re Telling You appeared first on The Cheap Vegetable Gardener. Last July I stood in front of my tomatoes convinced I was watching them slowly die. Yellowing tomato leaves everywhere. Some splotchy, some pale all over, some just the lower ones. I did...
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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...
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The post Stop Sunscald on Tomatoes with Cheap Shade appeared first on The Cheap Vegetable Gardener. Sunscald on tomatoes is something I learned about the hard way. I yanked off almost every leaf on my tomato plants one July because I read somewhere that airflow prevents disease. Technically...
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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...