6 Reasons Squash Fails and What To Do About It
January 18, 2016Grow a bumper of big, delicious squash with these disease and pest prevention tips.
Grow a bumper of big, delicious squash with these disease and pest prevention tips.
Generally I swap soup for salad in the depth of winter, but I still have access to heartier salad greens grown in area hoop houses. To adhere to January’s calorie-cutback resolutions, I just have to include some salads into my daily meals. The combination of squash, winter radish and spinach not only tastes wonderful, it […]
As the growing season comes to a close, support your local farmer and prepare for the winter ahead with these tips.
Photo by Judith Hausman Middle Eastern meets American in this holiday twist. Inspiration twice over: long, deep-orange pie pumpkins from my CSA and the gift of a Middle Eastern cookbook. The result was pumpkin hummus, a novel hit at Thanksgiving. While any winter squash, especially butternut, would serve, these pie pumpkins are especially nonfibrous and […]
I spent a few hours last evening working in my vegetable garden. It was time to harvest the winter squash and pull out the tomato vines.
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Use these root-cellar storage guidelines to keep your garden produce fresh for many months.
Possibly the most robust of the squash vines, cucuzza is an Italian treat that might soon make it’s way into the hands of U.S. farmers.
Photo by Rick Gush It’s time for squash flowers again! Squash flowers have already started appearing in vegetable markets here in Italy, which means it’s just about squash flower season in our garden. A few of the squash flower suppliers are northern growers who grow very early squash in greenhouses, but most are growers from […]
Heat stress, pest problems and lack of pollinators cause low yields in home gardens this summer.