One of the most interesting projects for me this year in the Channel 6 garden is growing vegetables in pots that are hung at various heights in the garden. We currently have a few different kinds of lettuce and chard as well as tomatoes in those hanging pots. Using regular potting soil for this project, […]
Archive for the ‘Edibles’ Category
Growing Organic Apples
As a new master gardener, I volunteer at the Channel 6 gardens on the north side of Milwaukee to fulfill my commitment to the group. Lead by Sharon Morrisey, a Consumer Horticulture Agent with Milwaukee County UW-Extension, our group meets every Thursday from 10 to noon in the Channel 6 garden. We work on planting, […]
A Child’s Vegetable Garden
I grew up on a family farm in northern Wisconsin and from a young age, I was part of the family enterprise of growing food and tending to the farm animals. Each spring my dad would plow up our large vegetable garden and prepare the soil to be planted with both seeds for common vegetables […]
Arugula, Spicy Salad Green
Arugula is one of my favorite salad greens. I remember it from my childhood, except then it was called the rocket (the rockets being a corruption of the French roquette). My dad was particularly fond of this peppery lettuce and planted it every year. It had spicy green leaves with sort of a peppery-mustard flavor […]
Growing Cucumbers in Compost
Every year I plant cucumbers in the vegetable garden and usually I get some early cucumbers. Then cucumber beetles find our garden, infect the cucumber vines with a mosaic virus and our plants all wilt. If we escape the mosaic virus, our vines usually get powdery mildew and stop producing. It is all very discouraging! […]
Weird Strawberry Leaf
As an avid gardener, I am always interested in other people’s gardens, especially how the same plants that I have can look different under the growing conditions that exist in their yards. A few days ago, one of sister’s noticed that some of her June bearing strawberry plants had weird leaf stems that looked curved […]