Crop Protection
Colorado Potato Beetle Control on a Small Farm
One week your potato rows look perfect, and ten days later half the leaves are lace and the stems are crawling with fat orange...
Market garden and soil writer, page 3 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
One week your potato rows look perfect, and ten days later half the leaves are lace and the stems are crawling with fat orange...
Growing Food
Every spring the same gap shows up at market: customers want greens in March, and your first sowings will not be ready until...
Crop Protection
Flea beetles shred your brassica transplants in four days, cabbage worms show up the week after, and the spray you reached for...
Growing Food
I once sowed four 50 foot beds of Bolero carrots in early June and got maybe forty seedlings across all of them.
Soil Health
Push a stiff wire flag into a field the day after a soaking rain.
Crop Protection
Two summers ago I lost 140 feet of fall broccoli to cabbage worms in about nine days.