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We all have our own reasons for growing food. Sometimes it’s to try new things and sometimes it’s because we want to provide more for our family. Everyone has a slightly unique perspective on vegetable gardening. So I asked my favorite gardeners why they started growing their own food, and I got some really awesome answers. They allowed me to… Read More

Do you want to grow your own tomatoes for making sauces and salsas but you’re not sure how to pick the right variety? Technically, you can use any type of tomato to make a paste, sauce, or salsa, but the best tomatoes for canning sauces and salsas are thick walled, have few seeds, and are meatier than other tomatoes. These denser… Read More

Usually, I recommend only growing food that you like to eat, but that doesn’t mean you can’t try some fun new things. This year, we’re adding in what could be one of the coolest plants we’ve ever grown. But I’ll get to that in just a minute because first I want to tell you about some amazing new vegetables you need… Read More

Have you ever walked out to your garden one morning to find your tomato plants suddenly stripped bare of their leaves and flowers? If this scene sounds familiar to you, it’s not a rabbit or deer that has decimated your plants, it’s a tomato hornworm. Tomato hornworms can strip a plant down to its bones overnight with their voracious appetites…. Read More

Recently there’s been a surge in concern over harmful bacteria in soil. Specifically, people are panicking over the risk of contracting Legionnaires disease from potting mix. Although Legionnaires disease can be fatal, it’s relatively rare to contract the disease from potting mix. However, it seems that the online world would glorify this into something that might scare people off of… Read More