Taking the leap from growing plants and vegetables outside to utilizing a greenhouse isnโt insurmountable. With the right type of planning, it is a home-improvement project that can be fulfilling, both to your green thumb and at the kitchen table.
Gardens are for gardening, not hunting, right? In both, you are instrumental in procuring your food, and sometimes you set out to do so armed with objects that can be dangerous. But itโs rare to see gardeners get decked out in camouflage to go pick radishes. In fact, hunting can seem pretty far from gardening in the outdoor-activity spectrum. Yet you can indeed be both a hunter and a gardener without traveling any farther than your own planting plot by dining on one of the prevalent pests found there: snails.
The high desert can be a gardenerโs dream when proper growing techniques are followed, and many herbs flourish both indoors and out in Reno-Tahoe. Megan Andrews, commercial horticulture program coordinator at the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension in Reno, and Stacy Fisk, herb farmer at Fisk Farm Herbs in Fallon, share a fondness for the almighty herb.
Growing plants in rows has long been the status quo for gardeners, but companion planting, or growing plants in mutually beneficial groupings, has wide-ranging benefits for gardens. Companion planting assists with distributing nutrients in the soil, providing shade, retaining water in the soil, repelling pests, and attracting pollinators. A healthy garden also means that its residents improve each otherโs flavors.
It may not be the type of gamble that some people associate with Nevada, but planting seeds for your garden definitely is a game with some risks. This is a fact that Rachel McClure knows well.
A burst of fragrant blossoms and tangy juice in the middle of a Reno-Tahoe cold, snowy winter sounds like a Mediterranean fantasy.
Latin for garlic, Allium is a genus of foods that extend beyond garlic to include onions, shallots, leeks, and chives. Rich in beneficial sulfuric compounds, alliumsโ potent tastes and aromas have inspired a wide variety of medicinal and culinary uses throughout history.
One day, your vegetable garden is flourishing with young, green plants. The next day, itโs been decimated by some unseen force. Whether your garden is in the middle of the city or flush against the foothills, no gardener is completely immune to the ravages of rodents and other critters.
Master gardeners provide an abundance of horticultural expertise to the community. โGardening in Nevada is a contact sport,โ declares Tricia Howarth, recent graduate of the University of Nevada, Reno Extension Master Gardener program. With our short growing season, early and late frosts, excessive day and evening air temperatures, and generally poor soil, itโs no wonder…
In 1892, the Witt family started dairy farming in Minden. A fifth-generation Nevadan, Cody Witt, co-owner and manager of Full Circle Compost in Minden, learned about soil health from his predecessorsโ trial and error on the family ranch.