Feeding Your Plants
The 10 day forecast in East TN shows that night time temps are now consistently above 50F, so it’s now safe to plant your summer crops! I get a lot
Healthy Soil= Healthy Garden= Healthy People
Ok, I totally cannot take credit for that title- that honor goes to Laura over in Wolfe County. Hey, it's spring!!! Yay! And tomorrow is April! (Already?!) It's another quiet
The Dirt on Soil Testing
With these fluctuating temperatures, the outdoors right now may seem like a cold (or warm?), unwelcoming place that that you never want to return to. Rest assured; better days are coming! After
Tackling Tomato Tragedies
Howdy Grow Appalachians! Boy, sure things have been moving at the speed of light here at HQ. Between holiday weekends, partner site visits, high tunnel videos, and mid-year reports and
Harvest, Soil Preparations and Farmer’s Market Wrap-up
It is early fall and our tomato and hot pepper plants are still yielding several pounds of produce each week. During our garden class today, we picked baskets of tomatoes,
Soil Building in East TN
We had a great soil health and fall gardening workshop on Thursday August 27th. Build It Up invited Mike Hubbs of the TN Assoc. of Conservation Districts to come speak
Cover Up! And a wrap-up (sort of)
Howdy Grow Appalachians! Holly, HQ VISTA checking in, and it has suddenly occurred to me that this will be my LAST blog as a VISTA! Wow!!!! I can't believe a
Healthy Soil Workshop, pigs, more pigs, and plants
Sun, warmth, plants, beaches, swimsuits, sand, oh! Boy, it is so easy to get distracted with the sun shining so bright, warm air moving in, and dreams of sandy white beaches
Strawberries, celebration, and feed the soil!
Debbie here, Appalachia Cares/AmeriCorps, at Rural Resources in Greeneville, TN, hoping everyone had a wonderful week! I have been busy scheduling and re-scheduling garden setups and tilling for several weeks
In Search of Nitrogen
Most of the plants seem to be growing pretty slowly in the community garden. The tomato and pepper transplants that I planted a couple weeks ago have hardly changed at
