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Well, I have some very cool news to share with you! As you know, I have a new book coming out in April, The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook. I will be chatting with Kevin Espiritu of Epic Gardening fame on his daily podcasts all week long! There will be seven podcasts in all, starting tomorrow and going through next Sunday, […]
Read moreGrowing Under Cover by Niki Jabbour (Storey Publishing, 216 pp., 2020, $24.95) by Susan Mulvihill I’ve known for several months that Niki Jabbour’s new book, Growing Under Cover, would be coming out in December 2020 and have been so excited to read it! I’m a huge fan of hers: she lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she gardens year-round despite […]
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For the last month or so, I’ve been able to give you tiny peeks into my new book, The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook. Your response has been so upbeat and heartwarming. Well, I can finally show you exactly what’s in my book and I have a special announcement about it, too! In my newest video (at bottom of post), I […]
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Are you a gardener? Do you have gardeners on your holiday shopping list? This year, a perfect way to embrace the “Green Friday” movement is by pre-ordering my new book, The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook! What’s Green Friday, you ask? It’s an anti-Black Friday movement in which proponents suggest making mindful purchases that are kinder to the environment. So, instead […]
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I have exciting news to share with you! I have written a new book, The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook, which will be published by Cool Springs Press in April 2021. It’s been hard keeping this a secret but now that it’s up on Amazon (*) for pre-orders, I can finally spill the beans. Do you deal with insects in your […]
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In today’s column, I tackle a rather controversial subject: using fertilizer in the garden. I am asked about this a lot and it doesn’t have a simple answer. Read more about this in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review*: Before using fertilizer, understand what your plants need. So why is fertilizer controversial, you ask? Well, if your plants are growing just […]
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Since there are a lot of brand-new vegetable gardeners out there this year, I thought it would be helpful to write a garden column about insects you might find in the vegetable garden and how to deal with them organically. You can read it in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: Bugs with benefits. In it, I discuss beneficial insects, aphids, […]
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Since we’ve got so many new gardeners out there, I am continuing to write about how to grow all sorts of vegetable crops. This week’s column is about how to grow onions and you can find it in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: How to grow onions. Onions are quite easy to grow and can be started from seed, little […]
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Since there has been so much interest in growing vegetables this year, I’ve been focusing my columns on that topic. Today’s column is about how easy it is to grow beet family crops. Here’s a link to it in The Spokesman-Review: Grow beet family crops, and cover them to keep pests away. Members of the beet family include beets (big […]
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For this week’s column, I wrote about how to grow cabbage family crops. This includes broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, kale, kohlrabi, radishes and rutabagas, just for starters. Here is link to it in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: Netting helps keep pests away from cabbage family crops. My current favorite to grow is broccoli. I mean, you just can’t […]
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