A Trick For Keeping The Deer Out

Deer are creatures of habit. Sometimes you can train them to ignore areas of sensitive plants.

I like to do this with an electric fence early in the season before there are garden plants they'd like to eat.

Sometimes they get a taste for your beans or carrots and then even an electric fence may not keep them out.

Unless you apply this trick...

A Trick for Doubling Your Pepper Yields

In the popular 1996 film Jerry Maguire, Jerry yells the phrase "Show me the money".

This trick for doubling pepper yields involves a different kind of green..

So we will all go out in our gardens and yell..

A Trick For Better Heirloom Tomato Yields

Heirloom tomatoes are notorious for poor disease resistance.

One of the tricks we use to improve this is...

A Trick for Weeding and Watering Transplants

One of our tricks to help with weeding is to plant our transplants in a trench made by our tiller. Why does this help?

A Trick For Growing Very Early Carrots

The first thing to come up in the spring at our farm is the garlic. Wait...I thought this post is about carrots.

Yes there is a connection, read on...