(Via Gardening Question of the Day (from The Old Farmer's Almanac))

Posted by admin to Uncategorized on 2008-07-12, 19:00:00

Some of my tomato plant leaves have turned dark brown and have rings on them. Is this blight? (answer).

From The Old Farmer's Almanac.

(Via Snappy's Gardens Blog)

Posted by admin to Uncategorized on 2008-07-12, 09:13:00

(Via An Iowa Garden)

Posted by admin to Uncategorized on 2008-07-12, 04:39:00

Arisaema galeatum is an Asian jack in the pulpit that I'm rather thrilled to have growing in the garden; it is rated zone 7 by most; also it is native to the Himalayas and jack in the pulpits from these mountains tend to rot in the ground in climates like ours...yet galeatum has done well here for several years with no protection. The inflorescence arises from a short stalk near the base of the main plant stalk, and rapidly enlarges into a "helmet" striped with green and white. As they say, this plant is large in all of its parts, and needs to be moist in growth; a hot wind and dry soil will suck the life out of it in a few hours. I imagine it would prefer a cool mountain valley over Iowa in July, yet here it still is. Maybe it thinks it's a cornstalk.