Creating A Newspaper Tomato Disease Garden Barrier: Prevent Blight and Spot Diseases

Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on PinterestA weeks worth of warm days and 50 degree nights means it is time for tomatoes to go into the ground here in Zone 7. With tomato season officially here, I wanted to offer a solution for preventing or reducing spot and blight diseases on your tomatoes. These diseases are quite prevalent in Maryland. The best way to...

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Video: How to Transplant Tomato and Pepper Seedlings into Cups

Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on PinterestThis is about the time to transplant your tomato and pepper seedlings into cups. The vegetable seedlings  can continue to grow in the cups and begin the process of acclimating to the outdoors. A process typically called 'hardening off'.  In short your seedlings don't have sun-screen yet because they have...

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Video: Seed Starting 7 Kinds of Basil: Save Money and Try New Varieties!

Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on PinterestThis video shows you a strategy for seed starting basil indoors. That part isn't too exciting. What I really wanted to convey is that there are dozens of different kinds of basil you can grow in your garden. You don't need to do this indoors under grow-lights either. A sunny window or an outdoor step will work...

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Cool Weather Vegetable Crops: Facts and Planting

The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on Pinterest Cool Season Vegetable Crops: Facts and Planting by Gary PilarchikA  Mix of Cool Weather Vegetables: The Rusted GardenWhat Makes A  Vegetable a Cool Weather Vegetable?The cell structures of vegetables...

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Video: Different Methods of Planting Lettuce (Succession)

Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on PinterestLettuce is a great garden vegetable. Some quick points.Succession planting is planting in waves. You plant in waves so you don't end up with all your lettuce at one time. You can do this with any fast growing vegetable like radishes or spinach. Plant some every two weeks for example.Lettuce will continue to grow leaves...

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The Problem: (Peppers) They Do Well, Mature, Flower, Set Some Fruit then Wither and Die.

Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on PinterestI got a question from a self proclaimed chilly serial pepper killer. Her chilly peppers seem to follow the pattern of: They grow a good size, flower, set some fruit and then the leaves wither/wilt and the plant dies. If you have the time, I would appreciate some help from all our experience (out there) with helping...

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ARGH! Slug and Snails in the Vegetable Garden

Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on PinterestAny suggestions out there on how to GREATLY reduce the number of slugs and snails out there in our gardens? Reduction is the key. What are some methods you use that would help us all out in this never ending war?I don't know why I find a comment about another gardener's garden being invaded by snails as painful as...

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So What Did You Do in Your Vegetable Garden This Week?

Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on PinterestI am curious to see and read what you are all doing in your gardens. Don't be shy and feel free to leave a comment or more... like a picture.I was able to mange my blog and tweak it a bit over the last few days.  I shot 4 more garden videos but that was the technical 'gardening' work. For actual earth work...Let...

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Vegetable Planting Instructions: What is This?

Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on PinterestI will be adding five menus/navbars to The Rusted Garden. I feel there is no easy way for visitors to search and find information so... I've decided to create modern menus/navbars for the blog. There are going to be five main vertical high end navbars to organize information. The old stuff will stay. The trick is...

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A Complete Spring Salad Snipped for the Rusted Garden

Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on PinterestThere are several ways to harvest salads from the garden. The method I use is to pick leaves and flowers from greens and herbs. I don't typically grow lettuces to maturity anymore. I just cut leaves or cut the lettuces...

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Eating Arugula and Kale Flowers in Your Salad: Spring Salad from the Garden

Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on PinterestI wanted to let people know that over-wintered lettuces, kales and greens typically go to seed in the Spring. All that means is they flower and try to set seed. You can eat the flowers! They taste like the plant and...

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What's Been Growing on at The Rusted Garden: Scatter Plots

Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on PinterestWell, I have about 300 tomatoes out and growing in cups. I started more tomatoes to make up for the 100 I killed off. I was able to plant a 2nd wave of radishes a bit back and they are up. I have my herbs in cups, I...

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An Outstanding Planting Mix For Monster Container Tomatoes

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Scotts® for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine. I have talked extensively about moisture control for growing monster container tomatoes. Sometimes it can be overwhelming to figure out what planting mix is best for containers. I can tell...

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Video: How to Build a Hot-House Tomato Cage: Get Your Tomatoes Out Earlier!

Visit My Youtube Tomato and Vegetable Garden Video Channel: Videos About Everything Vegetable GardeningHere is my newest video. This works! Get your tomatoes out early and get red tomatoes by the close of M...

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How to Manage Moisture in Container Tomatoes: Fruit Cracking/Blossom End Rot

Visit My Youtube Tomato and Vegetable Garden Video Channel: Videos About Everything Vegetable GardeningPart One of Two:The key to growing large bountiful tomatoes in containers is moisture control. Moisture control is the goal with control being the operative word. Tomatoes and most vegetables need even moisture. Periods of prolonged drought followed by too much water damages plant systems. I am...

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Vide0: How to Easily Transplant a Tomato into the Garden

Visit My Youtube Tomato and Vegetable Garden Video Channel: Videos About Everything Vegetable GardeningAnother video I just finish...

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How to Make the Ulitmate Garden Beer Slug/Snail Trap

Visit My Youtube Tomato and Vegetable Garden Video Channel: Videos About Everything Vegetable GardeningA new video I just complet...

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Update on My Now 100 Tomatoes I Killed: Argh!

Visit My YouTube Tomato and Vegetable Garden Video Channel: Videos About Everything Vegetable GardeningI still have plenty of tomatoes but wanted to review my mistake. Like I said I watered the new transplants from the top. What that did as I compared them to my other transplanted tomatoes (that are doing well!) was:They did get a shock of cold water on their leaves. That is something they never felt....

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Start Your Basil and Basils Indoors: There is More Than One!

Visit My YouTube Tomato and Vegetable Garden Video Channel: Videos About Everything Vegetable Gardening5 Kinds of Basil - The Rusted Garden: Gary PilarchikBasil like the warmth and the nights here are to cool but... you can start them indoors right now.There are many kinds of basil beyond the standard...

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You Can Start Your Cucumbers in Cups Now!

Visit My YouTube Tomato and Vegetable Garden Video Channel: Videos About Everything Vegetable GardeningCucumber Seeds - The Rusted Garden: Gary PilarchikThere are many different kinds of cucumbers. The picture covers 5 varieties. It is a good idea to plant several varieties of cucumbers. They will arrive...

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Bottom Water! Just Killed 75 Tomatoes

Visit My Youtube Tomato and Vegetable Garden Video Channel: Videos About Everything Vegetable GardeningWell wouldn't you know I forgot to bottom water my transplant tomatoes. I put about 120 transplants into cups and into holding containers. For no reason but forgetting, I just watered them from the top. What happened... 75 dead tomatoes from 'damping off' disease.How should I have done it. I should...

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Thanks You So Much For 100,000 Views and 5,000 Monthly Visits

Visit My YouTube Tomato and Vegetable Garden Video Channel: Videos About Everything Vegetable GardeningI never thought my passion for gardening and true enjoyment of this blog would be more than a place to get the occasional visitors. It has really grown into a fun hobby and a rewarding life experience. I hope to keep the blog going and hope to keep meeting new people and discovering new ways to garden...

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The Great Tomato Aspirin Experiment for 2102: JOIN US!

Visit My YouTube Tomato and Vegetable Garden Video Channel: Videos About Everything Vegetable GardeningWhat I would like to do is invite any interested gardener in testing the theory that aspirin or salicylic acid triggers a natural tomato response called Systemic Acquired Resistance or SAR.My understanding is that the salicylic acid in aspirin mimics a natural hormone that would naturally stimulate...

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Home Remedies for the Garden: Powdery Mildew and Baking Soda

Visit My Youtube Tomato and Vegetable Garden Video Channel: Videos About Everything Vegetable GardeningI want to bring a few ideas for pondering to the garden. I have used my on versions of these recipes. Remember the key is prevention and a structured plan for application.http://pubstorage.sdstate.edu/AgBio_Publications/articles/fs934.pdf: Managing Plant Diseases in the Home Garden. This is a 46...

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Aspirin for Tomatoes: A Good Step for Prevention

Visit My Youtube Tomato and Vegetable Garden Video Channel: Videos About Everything Vegetable GardeningI have been using aspirin for 2 years now (on my plants) and this will be my third. It activitates a defense response in the plant and is believed to help them 'be stronger' in warding of fungi and pest attacks. That is Leaf Spot and Blights. I think it is true. Some of my plants got Leaf Spot...

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It is Not to Early to Think Disease Prevention on Tomatoes: Blights and Spots

Visit My Youtube Tomato and Vegetable Garden Video Channel: Videos About Everything Vegetable GardeningI want to stress the importance of disease prevention in the garden for Leaf Spots and Blights. There is no cure. There is no cure. Only prevention.These classes of diseases are fungi. Fungi grow based on optimal environment and moisture. They need moisture to spread and the right environment to...

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VIDEO: What the Pak Choi is Chinese Cabbage: Planting Chinese Cabbage and Raab

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VIDEO: Transplanting 'Black' Kale to a Raised Bed

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Transplanted Kale, Chinese Cabbage and Broccoli Raab

Visit My Youtube Tomato and Vegetable Garden Video Channel: Videos About Everything Vegetable GardeningI got my transplants out into the garden finally! They were getting to large to wait out frosty nights. They are cool weather vegetables but I was hoping I wouldn't have to deal with frost.  Two...

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Dirt Basics: Preparing a Raised Bed for Transplants

Visit My Youtube Tomato and Vegetable Garden Video Channel: Videos About Everything Vegetable GardeningI don't want to even pretend there is a set way to prepare your soil. What is important is that you add some organic matter and fertilizer if fertilizer is even needed.  And the biggest key is...

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