Plant Pruning Guide
While our vegetables, herbs, and fruits are growing throughout the season, gardeners often find themselves hesitant to prune or even harvest.
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Treasured Tomatoes
With colors ranging from deep indigo to shiny gold and shapes such as teardrop and asymmetrical, heirloom tomatoes are bright beacons indicating that summer has finally arrived.
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Soil Warriors
Those wriggling invertebrates in your garden bed may look unappealing, but they actually are working hard to help your plants grow.
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Sow Many Choices
You’ve planned, plotted, and prepped for your 2024 vegetable garden, or perhaps you’re adding a pollinator or herb garden. Whether you’re planting spring cool season vegetables or summer favorites, local nurseries and organizations are ready to help from the ground up.
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Fun with Fungi
Looking for a fun food experiment to try at home? Tahoe Mushroom Co. in South Lake Tahoe offers Grow Your Own Mushroom Kits, which also allows you to experience exciting new mushroom flavors, easily and inexpensively.
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ArrowCreek Abundance
With about 100 members and most likely several hundred years of combined gardening experience, members of The Club at ArrowCreek garden club might be the go-to source for information on growing in the high desert.
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Seedling Satisfaction
One major lesson we’ve learned from the pandemic is food systems are fragile. A single misstep in the climate, growing cycle, or supply chain can limit the availability of food sources, especially in rural areas.
