Crop Protection
Aphid Control on a Small Farm Without Harsh Sprays
You flip a kale leaf and the underside is grey and crawling, and by the end of the week the whole bed has that sticky, curled...
Market garden and soil writer, page 2 of 8
Dario ran a market garden for ten seasons before he started writing full time, and he still tests his own soil every spring instead of trusting last year's numbers. He writes about vegetables and soil with the dirt still under his nails.
Crop Protection
You flip a kale leaf and the underside is grey and crawling, and by the end of the week the whole bed has that sticky, curled...
Soil Health
Your soil report came back with a line that says CEC 6.2 meq/100g, and nobody at the feed store could tell you whether that is...
Growing Food
You put a whole bed of potatoes in, hilled them twice, and dug up a crop of marble-sized tubers or a few big rotten ones.
Crop Protection
Your cucumber transplants looked fine on Monday, and by Thursday the leaves are full of ragged holes and one vine has gone limp...
Soil Health
You know your ground drains slowly in March and cracks in August, but you do not know whether that is clay, silt or compaction...
Growing Food
You grew a good onion bed all summer, and then half the crop rotted in the shed by November.