I grew up on a farm in northern Wisconsin and my Dad passed along a lot of plant wisdom learned from years of farming. One I remember very clearly was that you needed to rotate your crops in order to get the best harvest. The theory was that the soil would be depleted of nutrients […]
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Strawberry Squash Dance
It really bothers me to harvest an early crop and then have nothing in that space until the next year. So a few years ago when my strawberry crop was finished in early July, I decided to try planting butternut squash right on top of the strawberries. Now, I was not sure if there would […]
To Bee or Not to Bee
Years ago, when we lived in an upper flat in Milwaukee, I tried growing tomatoes on the upstairs deck located on the south side of the house. It seemed like the perfect place for tomatoes, sunny most of the day except for a little shade from the curbside tree. I had a wooden planter […]
Potato Going Rogue
I have been faithfully composting my kitchen scraps and a lot of the garden waste from our yard for a few years now. Usually, the contents in my compost bins just perk along and eventually look sort of like soil, at which time I remove the compost and distribute it around the yard. This harvesting […]
Strawberries on Acid!
My childhood memory of picking strawberries, both the wild variety and the ones that grew in our family’s strawberry bed, made me want to grow some in my own yard. I purchased starter strawberry plants and set them into my raised garden. The plants did really well. I got a lot of strawberries and the […]
Can Raspberries Tell Direction?
When I decided to try growing raspberries, I was told the old wives tale that raspberries grow in a northernly direction so I should plant my new bushes on the south end of whatever space I had to allow room for them to expand. Now, doesn’t that sound odd? I followed those directions and for […]