Tennessee Home Garden Variety Trials 2019 – Part 2

We received our selections for the 2019 variety trials today. Many of these varieties were developed here in The South…

Germination Rates – Warm Season Vegetables

Here’s a summary of the germination rates I’ve gotten, so far, for most of the seeds I started on Feb…

This year, we decided to participate in the 2019 Home Garden Variety Trials coordinated by the University of Tennessee. This…

Here is our plan right now. I might make some adjustments, but at least I think I have everything accounted…

After a lot of reading (Eliot Coleman’s books among others) and a little experimentation over the last couple of years,…

After a week off, we had a busy weekend in the garden. A late frost damaged a few plants so…

I had a few extra hours of vacation time to use, so I took the afternoon off. It was nice…

It looks like winter has finally left us, after one last frigid weekend. We covered everything but the very top…

We had another “hard freeze” last night. Mike and I covered all of the perennials and the garden beds with…

Late last summer a friend of mine gave me a pot of Gaura lindheimeri that he could not use in…