Archive for the ‘Vegetables’ Category

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 […]

  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 […]

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 […]