Garden Chores – Early April – Zone 4-5
Some items on the To Do list for the USDA Zone 4 and 5 garden. Inventory. Tune-up on your mower and other garden equipment. Inspect and sharpen. Also…
Tracking – Pepper Germination
Probably be boring for anyone else reading this. Tracking doc for germination of peppers. Peppers are started in 4″ pots instead of Jiffy Peat, as has been done in years past. This is causing the peppers to take longer to germinate as there is more soil to heat for each seed, and the seed is …
Artichokes in South Dakota – How I Did It
An Artichoke Harvest in South Dakota? As an annual? Yes.
Melons We are Growing – 2023
You may not know this, but watermelons do famously in South Dakota. In fact, the town of Forestburg provides the state with watermelons, and it’s good business. Glaciers cut through East-Central South Dakota in ancient times, leaving the sandy silt of moraines along and within its path. While much of eastern South Dakota has clay …
Garden Chores – Early Season before Planting
Let’s Ignore THAT Forecast and Focus on Garden Planning Chores n’ Tasks before Spring Wash and/or disinfect your pots. I have collected some sturdy pots over the years, mostly as I keep the better pots when purchasing larger plants and shrubs. Many are sturdy enough to have no issues going through the short dishwasher cycle. …
Tomatoes We are Growing – 2023
All seeds grown in the high wind prairie, Midwest, in macro-climate zone 5(ish). Average dewpoint in summer is around 60. Soil is a loamy clay. Although my preference is organic, I have used commercial fertilizers from time to time. Growing Days approximately 135. Gardening Personality: Relaxed, experimental, purist about very little. I practice High Intensity …
Pepper Chat – Quadrato d’Asti Rosso
A red bell, delicious enough to be on my grow-every-year list. Only two bell peppers make that list. The other pepper is Yellow Green Monster, a bell I plant for The Sps. All seeds grown in the high wind, lower rain prairie, Midwest, in macro-climate zone 5(ish). Average dewpoint in summer is around 60. Soil …
Peppers We are Growing – 2023
Peppers I am growing this year, 2023. Ultra sweets all the way to hots.
Growing Tobacco in South Dakota
…with one major mistake by the gardener. Pro-Tip for any gardener. Planting anything within a patch of sunflowers is not always the Three Sisters Garden dream it is supposed to be. My squash do fine, snaking through my sunflower patch healthy and with ease. The beans though? In 2021, I grew garbanzo beans within a …
Singing the Praises of the Pink Tiger Tomato
Pink Tiger Tomato Tasting and Grow Notes