Category Archives: Home Gardening

home gardening in northern New Jersey. a discussion of lawn care, vegetable nad flower garden in the Gardewn State.

Pickling!

Two types of pickling are hot water canning and quick refrigerator pickles. This year the garden produced an abundance of cucumbers. Fresh cucumbers are great in salads and make tasty cucumber sandwiches, but inevitably the novelty wears off. Pickling cucumbers … Continue reading

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Green Tomatoes

What to do when your tomato plants are full of green tomatoes at the end of the growing season? Fried green tomatoes? Try to ripen them?My choice is to try to ripen the tomatoes. Everyone has a different method; place … Continue reading

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Canning

What to do with all the tomatoes! Canning is an easy solution. Toe-may-toe, Toe-MAH-toe, what to do when you have too many tomatoes? Give them away to neighbors and relatives? Let them rot on the vine? One solution may be … Continue reading

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Spring Lawn Cleanup

In northern New Jersey when the snow is gone and the overnight temperatures are above freezing, I like to get a headstart early with raking the dead grass and tree litter from my lawn. Its a big job, so I … Continue reading

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So it begins….

set things in motion foe 2021, I bought a seedling tray and filled it with tomato seeds. I planted a variety including soem 3 year old super beefsteak seeds from 2019. I have some new Rutgers variety seeds ( which … Continue reading

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Spring is in sight!

Starting to think about the garden this year. Last year i started tomatoes about a week before March 17 (my normal day for starting veggies indoors). This year I am starting some flowers and plants for decorative purposes. Usually besides … Continue reading

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Garden 2015

  This year I started off with the usual lawn care, first I raked the lawn cleaning the remaining leaves from the previous fall and clearing the dead grass away. Then I spread lime pellets with the garden spreader to … Continue reading

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Natural Herbicide?

I have been seeing posts on social media about a safe, natural alternative to commercial herbicides. Basically from what i understand it is to spray unwanted vegetation with Acetic Acid (vinegar) and works by acting as a dessicant and killing … Continue reading

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Garden 2014

Its been a long winter and its a bit difficult to get started, but we made a start to our 2014 garden. We have been raking the lawn for weeks to clean the leaves and dead grass and are almost … Continue reading

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Potatoes

Purpose To plant and harvest potatoes Equipment and Materials personal equipment Coveralls – great for gardening with lots of pockets and tool holders. Gloves – Good gardening gloves along with coveralls gives one a feeling of empowerment and invincibility no … Continue reading

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