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Organic Home Growing Blog Posts
Ask Ruth: Scouting for Microclimates
Dear Ruth, My fall garden has not done well. The lettuce is under row cover but it already looks awful at the end of November and the real winter...
Ask Ruth: Winter Cover Crops
Hello Ruth, I live in East TN and will be digging sweet potatoes in my home garden by the first frost which usually comes in the third week in...
Ask Ruth: Preventing Tomato Blight and Resistant Varieties
Hi Ruth, After this wet summer, I'm wondering if any varieties of tomatoes showed any resistance to the blight (early or late). I grew Opalkas,...
Ask Ruth: Preparing Soil for a Spring Garden
Hi Ruth. I live just on the edge of Pisgah National Forest at about 3000 ft. I have almost no experience gardening. We have tried a garden for the...
Organic Disease Control
Western North Carolina is classified as a temperate rainforest ecosystem. Most people are surprised to hear this, but not organic gardeners. With...
Ask Ruth: Why is my Fruit Dropping?
Dear Ruth, This is the second year my fruit trees (plum, peach,) have produced bumper crops of fruit and shed every piece of it on the ground. By...
