Now, the bad news.  I'm having a lot more trouble this year with bugs and disease than I expected, based on my experience with a community garden plot last year. ...

I'm going to divide up my posts today by successes and problems.   The good news:  I have some tomatoes, peppers, and melons thriving. Thai pepper plant busting out with...

Today I went out to inspect the peppers again.  I've been fretting over them for so long, it was a huge relief to see this:  Those are green leaves!  Growing!...

I have finally figured out my pepper and eggplant disaster.  I bought a soil test kit from my favorite garden store and tried it out tonight.  pH is 6.5 (perfect),...

We planted an unholy number of varieties this year as an experiment.  So far, the non-bell varieties are doing much better.  The bells, especially the Jupiters are yellowing and dying...

All the big plant sales happen in early March around here, but the summer plants don't really start growing till the temperatures are above 90, so I've been stuck trying...