Sitemap - 2023 - Beyond The Garden Basics with Farmer Fred

Small Trees for Small Yards. Medium-Sized Trees for Suburban Lots. Avoid a Tree Disaster in a Storm.

How to Stake a New Tree

The Benefits of Lingering in the Garden

How Was Your Tomato Crop This Year?

Planting Wildflowers or Cover Crops: Wait for Rain? Or Do It Now?

Potato Planting Tips

The "Fast Food" Garden: Microgreens & Baby Greens

Fall Worm Bin Care and Feeding

What is Organic Gardening?

What's Stressing Your Dogwood Tree? It Could Be You.

Tomatoes Not Ripening? Blame the Heat.

Japanese Maples vs. the Heat of Summer

More Hot Weather Garden Tips

Late Summer is the Time to Start the Fall Vegetable Garden

Jalapenogate

Drooping Leaves vs Heatwaves

Is Your Fertilizer Radioactive?

Six Common Tomato Problems

Selecting and Caring For Garden Hand Tools

Summer Cucumber Issues

Where's the Zucchini?

Growing Healthy Greens Year Round

11 Garden Tips for Success

Thin Your Fruits and Vegs, Now!

The Best Roses For Cut Flowers

Flea and Tick Control Tips

Can Human Food Also Be Plant Food?

Happy Tomato Planting Day! But Which Varieties?

You Grew It. Now Eat It!

Tomato Growing Tips For 2023

Backyard Beekeeping Advice

Jumping Worms: An Update, Again

If You Can’t Dig Down, Grow Up! Raised Bed & Container Planting Tips

How Honeybees Say, "Come and Get It!"

Pepper Seeds Slow to Germinate? Some Speedy Tips.

The Scoop on Worm Poop

Vegan Split Pea Soup

Freeze Damaged Plants? Embrace the Ugly.

Fruit Tree Pruning: Winter or Summer? Or Both?

Winter is Rose Pruning Time

Starting Your First Garden or a New Garden? A Checklist.

Drain That Rain!

Growing Tomatoes in the Winter, Indoors

Bypass or Anvil Pruners? We Ask the Experts.