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Brassica Caterpillars, Blister Beetles and Allium Leafminers. Here’s another post on insect pests, which I publish at the beginning of each month. I feature the pests I’m most familiar with here in central Virginia. If you are in a different climate, you can use the Search Box on this site. All the crop chapters in … Continue reading "Pests of the Month in September"| Sustainable Market Farming
We are right now on our cusp for switching from sowing summer lettuce varieties to sowing cold-hardy ones. August 12 is my last date for sowing heat-resistant lettuces (mostly Batavians, plus Jeric…| Sustainable Market Farming
Here’s another in my monthly series of posts on insect pests, which are posted at the beginning of each month. I will feature the pests I’m most familiar with here in central Virginia. If you are in a different climate, you can use the Search Box on this site, where I have frequent mentions of … Continue reading "Pests of the month in August: grasshoppers, brown marmorated stink bugs and Japanese beetles"| Sustainable Market Farming
Book Review: Waterwise Gardening: Everything You Need to Know About Efficient Watering to Grow a Healthy Yard. Richard Restuccia. Rizzoli International Publications, Inc, New York, 2025. 240 pages, USD $29.95, CAD $40.00 paperback. This is a book for home gardeners who want to grow productive healthy plants, both food plants and landscape plants, while wasting … Continue reading "Book Review: Waterwise Gardening by Richard Restuccia"| Sustainable Market Farming
This week’s post is a combination of two features. First explorations of a myth about lettuce seeds needing light to germinate, and how to germinate lettuce when it’s hot. Second a soc…| Sustainable Market Farming
Virginia Home Grown is a local public television program presented by PBS Virginia Public Media (VPM). Virginia Home Grown features interviews with experts and enthusiasts from around the state. Viewers are invited to submit questions via email to VHG@vpm.org or on Facebook (facebook.com/VirginiaHomeGrown/). The program airs monthly from March through October. I appeared in Season … Continue reading "See me on the Virginia Home Grown TV program"| Sustainable Market Farming
Here’s the third in my monthly series of posts on insect pests, which are posted at the beginning of each month. I will feature the pests I’m most familiar with here in central Virginia. If …| Sustainable Market Farming
Molokhia (pronounced “mo-lo-HEY-ah”), Egyptian Spinach, Corchorus olitorius (Jute) is a summer cooking green that grows quickly to a multi-stemmed plant with a height of 6′ (2 m) or mor…| Sustainable Market Farming
Here’s the second in my new monthly series of posts, which will appear at the beginning of each month, until April 2026. This year the topic is insect pests and will feature the ones I’m mos…| Sustainable Market Farming
Now I no longer need to work on the new edition of Sustainable Market Farming, while it rains I am tackling some other indoor projects that need attention, (2” in 2 days – we got off lightly compa…| Sustainable Market Farming
Insect Pests of the Month in May I’m starting a new monthly series of posts, which will appear at the beginning of each month, until April 2026. This year the topic is insect pests and will feature…| Sustainable Market Farming
In December I wrote about noxious weeds and included some info on Crop Rotations to reduce weed problems. In January I wrote about planning and preparing for weeds. I wrote about mowing; sow…| Sustainable Market Farming
I’m now home from the Future Harvest CASA conference in Silver Spring, Maryland. As I said in my report from the VABF Conference, “if you’ve never been to a farming conference, I encourage you to …| Sustainable Market Farming
Future Harvest CASA Conference 2025 Farming Into The Future Thurs Jan 16- Sat Jan 18 2025 New location, Silver Spring Civic Building, downtown Silver Spring, MD (Near Metro) More than 40 sessions o…| Sustainable Market Farming
In November, I wrote about tackling some summer perennials, especially quackgrass (couchgrass), wiregrass (Bermuda grass) and mugwort. In October I covered winter annual weeds, mostly Henbit, Groun…| Sustainable Market Farming
This month I am going to write about tackling some summer perennials, especially quackgrass (couchgrass), wiregrass (Bermuda grass) and mugwort. November is a good opportunity for digging our invas…| Sustainable Market Farming
First an updated link. Use not eOrganic.org which I linked to previously. In September I wrote about Late Summer Weeds, chiefly purslane, velvetleaf, flower of an hour, horsenettle, fall panicum an…| Sustainable Market Farming
This is the second of my once-a-month series of posts focusing on weeds. One weed that is making itself very evident on our farm in late May and early June is the dock. We have both the broadleaf …| Sustainable Market Farming