Michigan Gardening To-Do List: March
If you are a Michigan gardener, March is the time to start seeds for prime gardening season. The vast majority of vegetable and herb seeds can be started indoors this month and the list of seeds that can be sown outside is growing. March is also the time to finalize those plans for a successful...
How to Protect Your Garden from a Spring Frost
Whether you push the gardening season or not, here in Michigan there’s always a danger that a late spring frost will wipe out your lovingly planted spring veggies. The earlier you plant, the more likely this is. The easiest way to almost guarantee that you’ll avoid a frost is to resist planting your vegetable garden...
Garden Tip: Make Your Own Seed Tape
Soon, we Michigan gardeners will be stuck indoors, staring forlornly out at our snow or frost-covered gardens. While I’m not in a hurry for that, I know that there are several ways I can keep myself busy, and get my garden off to a good start next spring. One of those ways is to make...
How to Fertilize Tomato Plants, Organically
Tomato plants grow with such speed and vigor that it’s easy to be tempted to keep feeding them, thinking that we need to add nutrients for all of that new growth our plant has put on. But the truth is that over-fertilizing tomato plants is just as bad as under-fertilizing them. Over-fertilized tomatoes develop lots...
Eating Seasonally: Recipes for Rapini (A.K.A. Broccoli Rabe)
Rapini (also called “broccoli rabe”) has been prevalent in farmer’s markets for a few weeks now, and the rapini we sowed in our garden in late April is nearly ready to harvest. Now, what to do with it? What is Rapini? Rapini is a leafy green that is a member of the broccoli family. In...
