Colleen's Organic Gardening Blog June 2008 Archive

Here are some of my favorite posts from the garden blogosphere from this past week. Happy surfing! If you're interested in growing potatoes, there's still time. About Gardening guide Marie Iannotti ... Read More

If you grow tomatoes, you've probably heard about pruning them, or pinching out the suckers. But where does a sucker grow on a tomato plant? And how do you go ... Read More

So, with all the news of salmonella-infested tomatoes and the high cost of groceries, maybe you're regretting that you didn't get your vegetable garden in this year. You've resigned yourself ... Read More

As we welcome the first day of summer, my mind is on the berry harvest. More specifically, it's on keeping more of it for myself, instead of finding my perfectly-ripened ... Read More

I was preparing to turn my compost pile yesterday, when I noticed a bunch of plants growing happily on one side of the bin. As I got closer, I was ... Read More

One of the benefits of not spraying your lawn with herbicides is that when you do get around to pulling weeds, you have the option of actually doing something with ... Read More

It's been another busy week in the garden blogosphere. Here are some of my favorite posts from this past week. Kenny Point over at Veggie Gardening Tips encourages us to keep ... Read More

I turn to leafy greens that are just as (and often more) nutritious and much slower to bolt. I love spinach, but it has a short lifespan here in my ... Read More

It's National Weed Your Garden Day! Weeders of the gardening world, rejoice! If you've been putting off taking care of those pesky dandelions, this is the perfect day to tackle ... Read More

With the recent outbreak of Salmonella-tainted tomatoes, restaurants and stores across the country are pulling tomatoes from their offerings. With the very unhelpful "linked to raw plum, Roma and round ... Read More

I love this pretty, coral-pink rose in my side yard. I don't know what variety it is. It was one of those bargain rosebushes at my local hardware store. This ... Read More

It's been a busy week in the blogosphere. Veggie gardens are offering their bounty, perennials are in all their showy glory, and all of those plans we made during the ... Read More

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An article in last week's Chicago Sun-Times reports that vegetable gardening is seeing an surge in popularity as people look for ways to save money in the face of the ... Read More

I've noticed the first few Cabbage White butterflies fluttering around my kale. The gardener in me cringes, knowing that they're only there to lay their eggs, which will hatch into ... Read More