20 for 2020

While growing and enjoying the bounty of my garden, my primary focus at any time of the year is on building even more fertility for the next season. The low-cost…

A pickling cucumbers ready for harvest. When soil temperatures start to warm up above 60 degrees starting in mid-March, it is time to plant cucumbers. Cucumbers are gratifying to grow,…

Bob Randall with his May 2020 Harvest of backyard tomatoes. By Bob Randall, Ph.D. At our house we taste the wonderful bounty tomatoes offers us very spring.  The reason is…

While different from true beans or peas, these summer-hardy legumes nonetheless add nitrogen to the soil, and are high sources of vegetable iron and folate. I like filling in all…

Spring has quickly turned into the Summer season, and the tomatoes and peppers are all starting to come in . . . which means that it is time to make…

Todos conocemos el refrán infantil, “las rosas son rojas y las violetas azules”, pero muchos no saben de las propiedades nutricionales que las flores comestibles entregan, además de ser un…

Everyone knows the nursery rhyme, “roses are red, and violets are blue,” but many do not know about the nutritional value of edible flowers, in addition to their beauty and…

What is compost? When organic matter is decomposed with the help of the FBI -- not the Federal Bureau of Investigations -- but Fungi, Bacteria, and Invertebrates, it becomes nutrient-rich substance of such value…

Thursday March 12th, 2020 is when things started to get weird. This was the day toilet paper began to disappear off store shelves. It was the day that worried, never-before…

When soil temperatures start to warm up above 60 degrees starting in mid-March, it is time to plant cucumbers. Cucumbers are gratifying: they are fast growing and provide an abundant…