Today’s blog is a recap of our “Spring Into Summer Vegetables” class we recently had with Karen Gardener. Karen always shares some wonderful tips for successfully growing vegetables in our climate. I will walk you through her outline and highlight her advice for...
In keeping with our plan to share our guest speakers’ key notes from our classes and events, today’s blog is a recap of our Tomato Class we recently had, featuring Keith Amelung, our local heirloom tomato supplier. Keith gave us a ton of information to help grow...
The end of January, February, and early March are the perfect times to plant potatoes in San Antonio, Texas. Today this blog guides you through the planting steps and also offers a few tips to get your potatoes off to a great start. So whether you say ‘potato’ and I...
What do you need to be ready for the fall garden season? A little prep and some forethought could be all it takes. The following article addresses a few timely gardening tasks in the landscape and in your vegetable gardens that will have you ready and raring to go for...
Early leaf blight can quickly turn the dream of growing a tomato plant into a nightmare. One day you are enjoying the progress in the growth of your tomato plant and the next you are watching it being taken over by this gnarly disease. Early detection is key to this...
Large Red Cherry tomatoes are one of the best producing tomatoes for our climate in San Antonio. The heat of our summers is too harsh for most large and extra large tomatoes. Once the temperatures hit the 90’s and higher, fruit production is essentially shut...