With vegetable planting season upon us, we need to take precautions to keep last year’s late blight disease from carrying over into this year’s crops. Late blight affects ...
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Growing your own veggies topic at Green Scene
The Hoosier Gardener will give two free programs on vegetable gardening at the Spring 2010 Green Scene, sponsored by Indiana Living Green magazine at the Indianapolis City ...
Getting started in the Indiana garden
In the February 2010 issue of Angie's List magazine, the Hoosier Gardener offers tips on starting a vegetable garden, including what vegetables to plant and how. Here's an ...
Thankful for home-grown food
All over the country, people who’d never sprouted a seed, planted a vegetable garden this year, and many of those who’d grown their own food for years, expanded their ...
Frosty temps flavor fall veggies
We’re heading into prime planting time for a crop of fall vegetables. Lettuce, spinach and peas prefer cooler weather and the flavors of cauliflower, Brussels sprouts and broccoli ...
Devastating tomato disease confirmed from Maine to Ohio
From Maine to Ohio, gardeners and growers are worried about late blight, a very contagious disease that infects members of the nightshade family, such as tomatoes, potatoes and ...
Best locally grown produce in the backyard
The weather has begun to cooperate by ripening our produce. That wonderful spell of pleasant summer temperatures mixed with cool, rainy days has been washed from our memory by ...
More gardeners to grow food in 2008, survey says
This was posted originally at Indiana Living Green in May, 2008. With food costs on the rise, more people will plant vegetable gardens this year. Thirty-nine ...
More gardeners will grow food this year, survey says
With food costs on the rise, more people will plant vegetable gardens this year. Thirty-nine percent of gardeners planned to spend money on vegetable and fruit plants, according ...
Sustainability goal of urban farm project
An urban farm program has germinated in Indianapolis, and like gardens everywhere, it holds seeds of hope, sharing and knowledge. The program is the brainchild of Matthew Jose, ...
