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Continue reading →: Video Wednesday: Harvesting Pears
Although it is a touch early for pear season yet, I suspect that we’ll be seeing some pears ripening earlier than usual. I know that I’ve seen a couple trees around town where the pears look like they are getting close to ready to pick. Here’s a video about how…
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Continue reading →: Making Pickles
The cucumbers in the Demo Garden aren’t doing nearly as well as I might wish, for some reason. At this point, I think there are probably several contributing factors and no real dominant cause. The ‘Homemade Pickles’ cucumber plants in the Family of 4 Garden have really nice looking plants,…
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Continue reading →: Friday PhotoEssayWhat a weird week with a holiday in the middle of it! The squash is pouring in, and even with the heat we haven’t lost too many plants yet. Ironically, we have lost more cucumber plants than squash plants, even though cucumbers don’t generally have a problem with vine borer.…
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Continue reading →: Eggplant Lacebug
On Tuesday, while we were out working in the garden, one of the Master Gardeners noticed that the ‘White Egg’ Eggplant had some leaves that were looking a little speckled. We checked the undersides of the leaves, expecting spider mites, and this is what we found: At first glance, it…
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Continue reading →: A New Study on Tomato Ripening & Flavor
A researcher out of Cornell University has released a study about the genes that control tomato ripening and flavor. There have been lots of studies done about what flavor chemicals or other factors affect tomato flavors. This article finds a correlation between the presence of the “uniform ripening gene” and…
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