27 posts tagged organic tomato gardening

Cutworms to be bad this year! What you can do about it! Often, the best way to prevent cutworms is by applying cutworm collars to your tomato plants. These cutworm collars can be made by using stiff paper, toilet or paper towel rolls, milk cartons, aluminum foil or even carefully cut tin cans.

Garden Update 15 May 2008 May 15, 2008 by badhuman    IMG_0810, originally uploaded by http://badhuman.wordpress.com. If you haven’t figured it out already, I really love my cherokee trail of tears beans. Last weeks pod was not in fact a bean pod per se. First the little white “pod” becomes a gorgeous light purple bud.

With finals ending on Friday and getting my life back in order, I have completely ignored posting for the past two weeks! Ooops! Anyway, so much has happened. It seems as if the tomatoes grow a foot a day, so my pictures here are probably already out of date. Two Saturdays ago I bought some strawberries, watermelon and cantalope plants.

Hydroponics is a system where plants are grown without soil. Using hydroponics to grow plants can be beneficial for many growers. Hydroponics allows plants to be grown faster and with less of a hassle. In hydroponics, plants are grown in a solution consisting of water and nutrients, or within a system that uses a substrate or growing mix medium.

Organic Gardening - The Pros And Cons May 3rd, 2008 Picture three ripe red tomatoes arranged on a wooden cutting board awaiting your pleasure. They’ve each come from a different source: can you tell which one was grown organically? Two of the tomatoes were lovingly tended in backyards - one in a conventional garden and the other in an organic garden.

To make onions easy to deal with (and take advantage of sales, especially on specialty onions like vidalias), chop several onions at once, then freeze for later use. Do the same with carrots, broccoli, and other like veggies.

So this evening I was feeling very uninspired. That’s the word I eventually put to it, what boiled down to just, you know, having the sneaking suspicion that I was fat and lethargic and had a messy kitchen. So then I checked in on monsieur Black Krim tomato and his wee set of true leaves.

Mount Duckling Oriental lilies Basil and Swiss chard The second batch of romaine, just transplanted to the raised bed Romaine just outside my door Lone Black Krim tomato (not thriving) and bell peppers (thriving) Tomatilloes The radishes in the plot have their first true leaves

Just came across this article in New York Magazine, written a few weeks ago by Lisa Chamberlain. When I took a glimpse of the image above, I saw a valiant attempt at an organic system packaged and marketed to fit the “profitable development” aesthetic.

After reading my “Ben Picks Ten: Tomatoes” post, someone asked our friend Ben why we bothered to grow tomatoes when they were so easy to buy. And I won’t deny that in tomato season, our friend Ben and Silence Dogood load up on all sorts of ripe tomatoes from our local CSA* , Quiet Creek Farm, and the area farmers’ markets.