Garden Troubleshooting

With its countless uses in cooking, health and wellness and its nutritional value, basil has become a very popular herb for many home gardeners to grow each year. But while basil can be fairly simple to grow, improper or insufficient watering can easily cripple your basil plants and ruin any chance of a successful harvest. So how much water does…

Tomatoes are a classic backyard-garden vegetable that many gardeners grow every year. Harvesting a fresh, plump, bright red tomato right off the plant can be both highly satisfying as well as rewarding. However, if white spots begin to appear on the leaves of your tomato plant, the leaves as well as the tomatoes themselves could be in great jeopardy. So…

With its long shelf life, sweet tasting flesh, and beautiful orange color, butternut squash is arguably one of the best winter squashes to choose from. Because of all its great qualities, many choose to grow it in their garden every year. However, many gardeners have difficulty determining just how many butternut squash they can expect from each plant. So how…

Homegrown lettuce is always the best. The leafy, green heads harvested from your home garden will almost always yield a fresher, crisper and better tasting lettuce compared to the heads bought at the supermarket. However, growing lettuce in your home garden can raise some questions. For example, how much sun does lettuce need? So how much sun does lettuce need?…

Growing Cilantro in your home garden is always a great idea as it is easy to grow and has a wide range of uses. From salads to sandwiches to even stir fry, cilantro can give any mundane dish a much needed boost of flavor. However, despite the simplicity of growing cilantro, there can be instances where your cilantro plants will…

One of the most commonly grown crops in backyard vegetable gardens is none other than cucumbers. Despite their popularity, many gardeners are unaware of how much space cucumbers actually need to grow. Cucumbers are known to grow in any the direction they please, so can be difficult to determine how much space each plant really needs. So how much space…

Carrots are one of the most popular vegetables to grow in the garden. However, when harvesting your carrots, you will not find any seeds on the carrot plants nor within the carrots themselves. This begs the question, where do carrot seeds come from? So where do carrot seeds come from? Carrot seeds come from carrot flowers. Carrots are biennial plants…

For many gardeners, early summer marks beginning of raspberry season. Those juicy, red berries begin to appear all over raspberry bushes ready to be harvested and consumed. While nothing beats an abundant harvest of juicy, tart and sweet raspberries, sometimes black spots can appear on your berries making them an eyesore and more importantly, having you question if they should…

Juicy, sweet, and ripe with flavor. Strawberries are always better when they are homegrown. However, many gardeners plant their strawberry seeds with the hope of an abundant yield of strawberries, only to be disappointed by a plant with few to no flowers and, therefore, no strawberries. So why do many strawberry plants fail to produce flowers? The main cause of strawberry…