Last 100 posts on gardening

Post G24-028: How’d that ginger turn out? (12/25/2024)
Post G24-027: A review of my vegetable garden year. (10/10/2024)
G24-026: Squash-off, round II: Tromboncino versus Butternut. (10/9/2024)
Post G24-025: Squash-off, round 1: Waltham Butternut versus Georgia Candy Roaster. (9/11/2024)
Post G24-024: So that’s what okra is supposed to look like. (8/29/2024)
Post G24-023: Taste test of tromboncino, cucuzzi, and yellow summer squash. (7/31/2024)
Post G24-022: Time is nonlinear in the garden. (7/28/2024)
Post #1989: What fraction of U.S. gasoline consumption is for lawn mowing? (7/19/2024)
Post G24-021: It’s hot out. Time to shake my tomatoes (7/11/2024)
Post G24-020: (Not quite the) driest June on record. (6/30/2024)
Post G24-019: Photosynthetic efficiency, or finally understanding the back-yard garden trellis. (6/30/2024)
Post G24-018: Where are the bugs? (6/27/2024)
Post G24-017: First Japanese beetle and first red tomato. A first. (6/19/2024)
Post #1979: Catching up with a few things. (6/15/2024)
Post G24-016: Gardening update, early June 2024. (6/6/2024)
Post #1975: Ashes in my mouth. (5/27/2024)
Post #1969: Rainy-day this and that. (5/15/2024)
Post G24-015: Gardening in shorts. (5/9/2024)
Post G24-014: Creeping Charlie puller and other garden items. (5/4/2024)
Post #1967: Friday/Saturday this-n-that. Part 3: Vegetative propagation via air layering. (4/27/2024)
Post #1964: Scraping the bottom of the barrel, for artichokes. (4/25/2024)
Post #1962: Fire drill (4/21/2024)
Post G24-012: Gang aft a-gley. Shutting down the Great Potato Chit-Off. (4/20/2024)
Post G24-011: Replacing a lost watering can rosette. (4/19/2024)
Post G24-010: Growing ginger in Virginia? This needs a rethink. (4/15/2024)
Post G24-009: The Great Potato Chit-Off, Chits win round 1. (4/12/2024)
Post #1961: I just did my taxes, and some potentially helpful advice on the Virginia 2023 tax rebate checks. (4/12/2024)
Post G24-009: Chipping/shredding vines and green twigs. (4/6/2024)
G24-008: The (blue) birds and the (mason) bees. (3/20/2024)
Post G24-007: The Great Potato Chit-Off, 2024, and my rules for planting potatoes in the South. (3/19/2024)
Post G24-006: “My grandmother grew loofahs … once.” (3/5/2024)
Post G24-005: Is it March already? (3/3/2024)
Post G24-004: Advice on sheltering your bee hotel for the winter. (2/26/2024)
Post G24-003, addendum 2: Starting ginger root, second try. (2/18/2024)
Post G24-003, addendum 1: Slow-roasted ginger root. (2/17/2024)
Post G24-002, addendum 2. Chilling the chitting. (2/16/2024)
Post G24-002, Addendum: Chitstistix, a power test. (2/8/2024)
Post G24-003: Ginger and turmeric, edible house plants. (2/6/2024)
Post G24-002: The straight chit on growing potatoes. (2/6/2024)
Post G24-001: It’s Groundhog Day. Again. (2/3/2024)
Post #1938: Psychrophilic bacteria for winter composting, total failure (2/1/2024)
Post #1921: Psychrophilic bacteria for winter composting, setting up the experiment. (1/3/2024)
Post #1900: The USDA released a new map of U.S. plant hardiness zones this week … (11/19/2023)
Post #1891: If the on-line deal seems too good to be true, what do you do? (11/1/2023)
Post G23-068: Life in mustard and okra, ten lessons from my 2023 gardening year. (10/28/2023)
Post #1864: Lime green tomato zucchini bread (10/19/2023)
Post G23-067: Garlic and soil sulfur. (10/17/2023)
Post G23-066: A little fertilizer calculation, or why I #leavetheleaves. (10/15/2023)
Post #1863: Overthinking winter composting. (10/13/2023)
Post G23-065: Sweet potatoes, a low-effort food. (10/12/2023)
Post G23-065: The dozen known culinary uses for green tomatoes. (10/11/2023)
Post G23-064: Tin-foil-hat gardening success: Radiant barrier over poly sheet. (10/9/2023)
Post G23-063: Tin-foil-hat gardening fail, loose-fitting radiant barrier does nothing to keep plants warm. (10/8/2023)
Post G23-062: Nearly wordless workshop. (10/7/2023)
Post G23-061: Tin-foil-hat gardening, or, yet another garden radiant barrier experiment. Part 1 (10/7/2023)
Post G23-060: Gardening’s booby prize. (10/5/2023)
Post #1858: Indirect solar food dryer, Part 2: Building a roll-up solar air heater. (10/3/2023)
Post 1857: Building an indirect solar food dryer. Part 1. (10/2/2023)
Post G23-059: Copper soap versus citric acid for powdery mildew, copper wins hands down (9/18/2023)
Post G23-058: Solar tomato drying fail. (9/15/2023)
Post G23-057: Solar food drying, a better understanding (9/12/2023)
Post G23-056: Yes, you can make sun-dried tomatoes in Virginia. Who knew? (9/7/2023)
Post G23-055: Can you make sun-dried tomatoes in Virginia? (9/5/2023)
Post G23-054: Copper soap versus citric acid for powdery mildew, the rematch. (9/2/2023)
Post G23-053: It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood. (8/31/2023)
Post G23-052: I dried my underwear in my food dehydrator. (8/29/2023)
Post G23-051: Gardening, the home stretch 2023. (8/23/2023)
Post G23-050: Marigolds, beautiful but deadly (8/11/2023)
Post G23-049: Harvesting a mess of okra a day requires a lot of okra plants (8/5/2023)
G23-048: Uncooked mustard. Handle with care. (7/22/2023)
Post G23-047: Et tu, snap beans? (7/21/2023)
Post G23-046: Winnowing seed and making mustard (7/18/2023)
Post G23-045: Somewhat less-green mustard. (7/17/2023)
Post G23-044. Green mustard seed, explained. (7/15/2023)
Post G23-043: Threshing mustard by combing it. (7/14/2023)
Post G23-042: Harlequin bugs on my cut mustard. (7/12/2023)
G23-041: No-dig potatoes in leaf mulch. Poor yield. (7/12/2023)
Post G23-040: Radiative cooling experiment, a puzzling worse-than-total-failure. (7/12/2023)
Post G23-039: Eats, shoots, and leaves. When to harvest mustard, decoded. (7/11/2023)
Post G23-038: Tomato non-ripening and a radiative cooling experiment. (7/11/2023)
G23-037: Eastern Boxelder Bug. (7/9/2023)
G23-036: Mus-stakes? (7/9/2023)
G23-035: Russet potatoes, southern garden, poor yield. (7/8/2023)
Post #1805: The best deal at the farmers’ market. (7/7/2023)
Post G23-034: Impatient gardener. (7/6/2023)
Post G23-033: First backyard coyote sighting. (7/6/2023)
Post G23-032: Paw-paws 1, Gardener 0 (6/30/2023)
Post G23-031: The iron law of back-yard gardening. (6/28/2023)
G23-030: Shocking mustard. Maybe not the best idea I’ve ever had. (6/24/2023)
G23-029: Notes to myself on mustard harvest, curing, threshing, etc., etc. (6/24/2023)
G23-028: … the beetles (6/20/2023)
G23-027: Some further notes on growing yellow mustard in the home garden. (6/18/2023)
G23-026 Winnowing, or, Rube Goldberg does agriculture. (6/17/2023)
G23-025: Springtime drought in the DC area. What can you do? (6/16/2023)
G23-024: Jambalaya okra: Qualitatively different. (6/14/2023)
G23-022: Ladies and gentlemen … the beetles. (6/13/2023)
G23-021: Dance of the mustard flowers. (6/2/2023)
G23-020: Mustard-induced hallucination, or is mustard heliotropic? (6/1/2023)
Post G23-019: With faith the size of a grain of mustard … (5/31/2023)
Post G23-018: The lesson: Pick the right variety? (5/30/2023)