If you’ve ever eaten a ripened fruit picked off a tree you know there is nothing better found in our local stores. Now, you have an opportunity to purchase a young fruit tree from Northampton County’s 4-H. Continue reading →

If you’re like me, we’re ardent fans of homegrown tomatoes. You prefer the taste of real tomatoes and not the greenhouse, or cardboard varieties the stores overcharge for.

Today, I found something that I had only read about and didn’t recognize it when I found it.  I’d like to introduce my fellow gardeners to it. This way, you’ll know to let nature take its course and promote the population of beneficial insects that help destroy garden pests. Continue reading →

If I wasn’t such a cheap SOB I would have spent the $7 to enter the Zucchini 500 in Easton this past weekend. I’m growing zucchini that would have literally crushed the competition.

The plant itself is the domesticated version of Audrey, that blood loving, people eating plant from Little Shop of Horrors. It is 7′ wide and over 4′ high, with a main stem that measures 3″ in diameter. It is now producing an average of one zucchini about every two days and those don’t include the ones I’ve missed picking (hidden under foliage), before they grew into 5+ pound beasts. Continue reading →

Back on April 18th you read about the vegetable garden I started this year. There was a brief spell of warm weather and I took advantage of it to put in some young plants and seeds. I also tried a different garden plan, using mounds, rather than flat ground. I had a mixed bag of success by starting early and by using the mound method. Continue reading →

Farmers tell me that they don’t plant seed until around the end of the 1st week of May. This, they say, is when all danger of frost has passed and the ground is warm enough for seeds to germinate. I guess I’m jumping the gun, because I’m planting my seedlings today. Continue reading →