Aphids on Tobacco plants is common problem. These sap sucking little bugs can make huge damage to the tobacco leave crop. And even if you still have large amount of tobacco leave harvested, the quality of dry leaves is lower if they are covered with ..

I had 2 bid sacks of sunflower seeds from last summer, that I just could not make clean enough - there was a lot of duct, debris, empty seeds, broken seeds, small stones. I was looking on internet to buy a winnowing machine, small and cheap enough so..

Visual size comparison for 10 tomato varieties I grow in my garden.And if I had 2 words to describe each of them, here it goes:Oxheart and Amish - excellent paste tomatoes.Plum and grape - thick skin, little sour - canning delight.Cherry - sweet trea..

We had too much rain this Summer right on time when Tomato fruits started to set and I found that too much rain can cause some problems too, i.e. Blossom End Rot. It is not infectious and caused by chemical imbalance in the soil. Basically with too m..

The method is quite old, but still not widely used this day, as people are more inclined to buy some strong stuff - like Roundup - and make sure to kill everything with less effort.  Roundup becomes quite a controversy solution recently, some claim i..

I grow everything on raised beds. In Ontario climate I found it is most appropriate way to grow vegetables, for several reasons, the main reason being: in provides good drainage if properly planned, and in flooding situation that we are currently exp..

There are many reasons for using grass clippings as mulch in your garden.       Use of grass clippings - or straw - is beneficial for garden in many ways, but there is one condition to make it work best: the thickness of the layer must be at least ..