Longleaf Breeze

For our ignorance about growing things, the Master Gardener program is just the thing. Classes, service requirement, the Master Gardener hotline, role of organic. Harvesting sweet ...

Trellising the easy (and cheap) way, when to do it, trellising tomatoes that won't grow, retrofitting the muscadine trellis. Also, using air conditioning, reorganizing our storage,...

Living more simply, avoiding accumulating things we don't need, using rolling shelves. Also, waiting too long to down trees, regular routine with the clothesline, hardening off veg...

When the south's brutal heat punishes our other veg, the okra just keeps coming. Better keep it well picked! Also, squash bugs, the height of melon season, superstar sunn hemp, cop...

Counting on fewer bug problems, seed starting in the heat, cutting sunn hemp on Row 6, clear plastic to kill weeds, carving out a season to rest, great report on our wood stove ins...

Maybe rejection was a good thing; now we'll be able to put the info in context. Also, time away from the farm, seed starting, variation in soil fertility on Veg Hill, first use of ...

Arguing about the dehumidifier, design of the pole barn, "closing up the envelope," staying hydrated, getting used to it, poorly peach tree, Lee is a bush hogging fool, variation i...

The sunn hemp is doing well; now what to plant on the west side? Cowpeas? Daikon radishes? Rye? Also: no wheat for bread flour in Alabama, blackeye peas, corn, tomatoes, melons, eg...

shouldn't we be growing all the veg we need during the summer? Also: Veg Hill update, nasty storm on Sunday, a new tomato trellis, coping with humidity, drip irrigation lines movin...

Should we leave them alone? Pull them by hand? Use the weeding hoe? Also: firewood report, first use of the Wallenstein BX42 chipper, Hortense the solar owl scarecrow, sunn hemp up...

System is in, installing drip irrigation, effect of drip irrigation on sunn hemp, clogged drip irrigation filter, or very own Horse Pal, one last gasp at corn...

Never expected blueberries the first year, progress on drip irrigation system, next up: installing drip tape, chipper and firewood waiting, poor man's tomato trellis, using junk fe...