Everything You Need to Know About Starting Peas Indoors: It Can Be Done!

Everything You Need to Know About Starting Peas Indoors: It Can Be Done!Peas are cool weather crops and need to be planted fairly early here in Maryland Zone 7. They prefer well drained soil and soil temperature that is 40 degrees or more. They do best when day temperatures don't get past 70ish degrees....

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Stephen Via - PhD candidate

Congratulations to our recent PhD candidate, Stephen Via!  He successfully defended his dissertation proposal titled "From seed to sky: the impacts of explosive compounds on vegetation across scales". Stephen also gave an outstanding presentation to his committee members.  Job well done!...

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Understanding the Difference Between Pea Types: Snow or Sugar, Snap and English or Shelling

Understanding the Difference Between Pea Types: Snow or Sugar, Snap and English or ShellingThere are many variations of the three categories or types. You can get variations that give you white or purple flowers, purple pods, wrinkled peas or dwarf varieties.  Maturity time can also vary by...

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Purchase Calcium Nitrate to Help Manage Tomato Blossom End-Rot

About 350 grams of Calcium Nitrate 15.5-0-0 19% Calcium and water solubleCost $10.00 plus shipping  Calcium Nitrate can be used to manage Blossom End-RotCalcium Nitrate is a water soluble form of Calcium (Ca) that you can make a spray with and spray on your plants to get them calcium, to...

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How to Build A Hot-House Tomato Cage: Create a Micro-Climate for Early Tomato Transplants

How to Build A Hot-House Tomato Cage: Create a Micro-Climate for Early Tomato Transplants(Revised for 2015)These cages can be built in 15 minutes. They will allow you to get your tomatoes into the garden a lot earlier. It works. I use a few every year and am the first in the area with red tomatoes....

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Plant ecology today

As a scientist, it is not easy to put so much of your energy and passion into proposals and manuscripts which elicit a lot of negative feedback (not always, but often enough).  It can be discouraging to keep moving forward, but I will not stop because I believe I have a meaningful contribution...

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Cabbage Time in Carolina!

Skunk Cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus) is one of our earliest, native bloomers. In mid-February, I observed dozens, possibly hundreds, of individuals pushing up through leaf litter, muck, and shallow water at a site near Warrenton, NC.The stout emerging stalks are amazingly thick and leathery to the...

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Cool Weather Vegetables: Seed Starting Kohlrabi, Kale, Broccoli, Brussels Sprouts, Cabbages: Planting, Feeding, Transplanting

Cool Weather Vegetables: Seed Starting Kohlrabi, Kale, Broccoli, Brussels Sprouts, Cabbages: Planting, Feeding, Transplanting This video shows you how to plant and start the seeds, talks about germination, feeding, when to thin them and how to transplant them into larger cups. It covers...

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Crater the bay to restore it?

Carolina Bay wetland (1998); the egg shaped, dark mass near the center of the imageCarolina Bays are enigmatic, isolated wetlands scattered across parts of the Atlantic Coastal Plain; enigmatic due, in part, to their characteristic northwest-southeast orientation, and ovoid shape, not to mention speculation...

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Building an Indoor Grow Light Closet for Vegetable Seed Starting: Revised from 2012

Years ago Google had KNOLs. It was were you could write articles. I did that for a while until Google closed it. I kept the old articles here and will be updating them for 2015. This was how I set up my current grow light closet back in 2012. This was before all the videos. I used to just write articles...

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mark making on clay...

Well that was fun! Mark Making on Clay workshop at G1855. What a cool bunch of people, from experienced, to students, to never touched clay before… It was a great combo really. We started with a vid from the night my studio flooded. During some heavy rains a few years back when the water from my neighbours...

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