It’s almost time to plant those cover crops to overwinter in your garden. This is about a specific kind of radish – a Daikon Radish – and the benefits to your soil.
Archive for August, 2009
Daikon Radish As Cover Crop For Your Home Garden
Posted in Fall Gardening, Soil Conditioning, Vegetable Gardening, tagged Allentown, Beginning Gardening, Bethlehem, cover crop, daikon radish, fall planting, forage radish, lehigh valley, Pennsylvania, radish, Soil Conditioning on August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Keeping Squirrels Out Of Your Vegetable Garden
Posted in Pest Management, Tomato Blight, Vegetable Gardening, tagged Allentown, Beginning Gardening, Bethlehem, cantaloupe, corn, harvest, lehigh valley, Pennsylvania, squirrels, sunflowers, Tomato Blight, Tomatoes, weather on August 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Thanks to Tropical Storm Danny, more cool, wet weather has settled here in Pennsylvania, so the tomatoes that survived blight will probably now rot on the vine. At least I was successful in keeping the squirrels out of the corn patch this year…
Tomato Blight In Pennsylvania
Posted in Disease Management, Tomato Blight, Vegetable Gardening, tagged Allentown, Beginning Gardening, Bethlehem, Fungus, lehigh valley, Pennsylvania, Tomato Blight, Tomatoes, weather on August 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For those of you outside of Pennsylvania, we have been hard hit by blight (a fungus that infects tomatoes and potatoes) this year, due to an extremely wet and cool summer.
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