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Summer - The Organic Forecast Show Menu Home Blog Contact Seasons Spring Summer Fall Winter This page is defended to all our SUMMER inspired posts. An easier way to find all blog entries that wordplay your pesky pest questions, requite variety and plant recommendations and alimony you entertained during those hot summer months. April 24, 2016 7 Tips for Conserving Water in your Vegetable Garden I have once seen several sprinkler systems running full wham which can only midpoint one thing, our season for irrigation is just virtually the corner. Rising temperatures and growing plants causes some gardeners to uncork to lose sleep over water – is it too much, is it too little or is it just right!  A… Read increasingly July 31, 2016 The Tomato Disease Diaries – The not-good, the bad and the ugly! Our diagnostic help sedentary has been deluged with disease – tomato diseases specifically.  With all the questions rolling in, and without listening to an spanking-new presentation by Marion Murray, I reached out to her to provide some information on a tomato disease blog post.  Many thanks Marion for sharing your disease expertise with us! Tomato… Read increasingly July 17, 2016 Tips, tricks and traps We’ve had quite a few inquiries the last few weeks about executive Earwigs and sure unbearable this very topic showed up in the latest Vegetable IPM newsy from the Utah Pests team! Along with that translating came some unconfined information on other recently spotted garden pests AND salubrious insects. Read unelevated for increasingly information and keep… Read increasingly August 16, 2015 A Few Tips for a Tastier Tomato Almost any gardener would stipulate that harvesting your first garden ripened tomato is unchangingly a big highlight of the growing season!  Lucky for us, tomatoes are relatively easy to grow in Utah, but there are a few tricks that can make a big difference in their productivity. Here are ten tips for growing unconfined tasting… Read increasingly August 28, 2016 Veggies Get Sunburns Too! Hot sunny days at the waterfront guarantee sunburned persons of people who forget to wield sunscreen, but did you know that fruits and vegetables get sunburns too?  Of late I’ve noticed lots of fruits and veggies with ugly forfeiture caused by too much uncontrived sun exposure – tabbed sunscald injury. Although sunscald injury is purely… Read increasingly July 2, 2017 Red, White and Blooms! Those of you that follow our garden progress at Wheeler Historic Farm are unseat to have noticed that the USU Extension Demonstration Teaching Garden is looking ‘bloomtastic’ these days!  Flower gardens not only vamp pollinators and salubrious insects, but moreover provide humankind eye-candy with firecrackers of verisimilitude and texture. Here is a run-down of flowers… Read increasingly August 7, 2016 Blossom End Rot We were very excited to see that last week’s post on tomato diseases made our top 10 viewed blog posts for the Organic Forecast blog!  Since it seems everyone is into diseases and disorders, and Debbie asked us an spanking-new question well-nigh ‘rot’ she found on her tomatoes, we thought we would dedicate this week’s… Read increasingly September 13, 2015 Timely Tips – Peppers Get Sunburns Too! We had a unconfined harvest of the Meals Plus Harvest Garden over the Labor Day weekend and donated the bounty to the Friendly Neighborhood Senior Center.  It was so much fun talking to the residents who literally followed us in the door to be the first to select from our donated garden goodies.  Here is… Read increasingly August 14, 2016 You are not alone…in the garden Unless you are growing a garden in a top secret new technology bubble, it is unscratched to say you are not alone. There are a plethora of creepy, crawling, winsome insects and organisms that have made your garden home and are sticking virtually to either help you be successful (beneficial) or not so successful (pests). One of the many things we… Read increasingly August 9, 2015 Top 10 Tips for Gardening with Kids Kids are unconfined fun in the garden and love learning well-nigh growing and harvesting their favorite vegetables, fruits and herbs. According to my colleague Carrie Durward, USU Extension Nutrition Specialist, gardening is a healthy worriedness for the whole family because: Both kids and parents eat increasingly vegetables in homes with gardens, Gardens increase the availability… Read increasingly June 26, 2016 If you build it, they will come…. Bee a Contributor – Watch this amazing video on native bees and do your part to protect them by planting pollinator plants listed in this factsheet! Much accent is often placed on European honeybees due to, well their overall amazingness, but moreover their important contribution to our supplies supply (as much as one in four bites… Read increasingly May 29, 2016 It’s time to monitor for pests – It’s time to sign-up for Utah Pests advisories! Last week we were noticing some damping-off on our melons planted in the Meals Plus Harvest Garden which reminded me to trammels for current pest advisories on the Utah Pests website. The first small fruit and vegetable IPM pest newsy was released on April 22, 2016 and, just as they unchangingly have perfect timing, damping-off… Read increasingly June 28, 2015 Utah’s Most Hated Weed! It seems like all gardeners, novice or expert, know two weeds by name – dandelions and morning glory!  The morning glory plant is a very unwelcome visitor to any vegetable garden since it is so difficult to control.  Have you overly wondered what makes this pretty and soft-hued looking plant so tough?  Here are some… Read increasingly August 4, 2015 Awesome Actualities well-nigh Artichokes Artichokes are giant thistle plants that produce an edible flower bud if harvested surpassing maturity. As the flower ‘matures’, ‘hearts’ will turn to ‘chokes’ – cough! Artichokes should be considered a garden yearly (lives for one growing season) in the Northern Utah climate – although gardeners might find ‘microclimates’ where protected plants reemerge in spring.… Read increasingly August 2, 2015 There is Nothing Humdrum well-nigh Hummingbirds! I have been seeing lots of hummingbirds in the Meals Plus Harvest Garden lately so it seemed like an opportune time to blog well-nigh them. Hummingbirds are such a treat to watch in the garden as they ‘chirp’ and zip well-nigh either drinking nectar or chasing flipside unwelcome hummer out of their territory.  Here are some tips… Read increasingly July 5, 2015 The Dog Days of Summer – What Hot Dry Weather Means for Healthy Garden Plants The recent hot and dry summer weather has had a ‘dormant-full’ effect on stressed cool-season turf grass areas, but the opposite is true for well-hydrated warm-season garden plants – with special accent on the words ‘stressed’ and ‘well-hydrated’.  Sunshine and heat are platonic for healthy warm-season garden gems like tomatoes, cucumbers, untried beans, squash and… Read increasingly June 7, 2015 Allow Me to Introduce You to the Meals Plus Harvest Garden!   In the spring of 2014, USU Extension partnered with Salt Lake County Aging and Adult Services to create the Meals Plus program in Salt Lake County. Our goal is to unhook fresh produce weekly to homebound Meals on Wheels clients.  The program was created to help homebound seniors wangle fresh produce of which they… Read increasingly June 14, 2015 Celebrate National Pollinator Week, June 15th – 21st, 2015 In honor of National Pollinator Week, I felt it was important to highlight some unconfined plants that vamp variegated types of pollinators to your yard and garden.  For those that know me well, I am a bee-lover at heart, but I moreover get a little choked-up when I see other types pollinators visit my garden… Read increasingly May 17, 2015 Top 10 Ways to Make and Use Compost Mike Whitesides, our Extension marketing guru, has asked me to compile some ‘Top 10’ lists for your reading pleasure.  Here is the second installment and a timely tip, how to make and use compost: Location-location-location! Place your compost bin near the zone you plan to spread your compost and near a user-friendly water source.  Oftentimes,… Read increasingly May 10, 2015 Top 10 Ways toVampBees & Butterflies to Your Yard Plant plants that viridity throughout the growing season and hence provide a continuous supply of pollen and nectar. When selecting plants at the nursery, make sure to not only purchase plants that viridity in the spring, but moreover plants that viridity in the summer, and plants that viridity in the fall so pollinators have a… Read increasingly August 19, 2014 Attracting Lacewings to the Garden We are loving the Natural Enemy Spotlight that has been showing up in our USU seasonal “Vegetable IPM Advisory” as of late! The most recent introduction is the Lacewing. “Lacewings are generalist predators and are wontedly found in agricultural, landscape, and garden habitats. Most species of lacewing adults are predaceous, while others feed strictly on… Read increasingly August 23, 2013 Tip of the Week: Cucumber Beetles “The western striped and western spotted cucumber beetles both occur in Utah, and feed on leaves, flowers, and fruit rinds. Both species uncork worriedness in the spring, and are virtually for most of the summer. They are in their second generation now, urgently feeding on the skins of watermelon, cantaloupe, zucchini, winter squash, pumpkin, and… Read increasingly July 21, 2014 Tip of the Week: Cabbage Aphids APHIDS. They suck. We all know they exist, but did you know there were so many variegated types? The one recently stuff reported on in the latest Utah Pest-VegetableNewsyis the the CABBAGE APHID. “Cabbage aphid are easy to identify as they have a white waxy coating. These aphids wontedly occur in dumbo colonies,… Read increasingly August 9, 2013 Tip of the Week: Beetleaf Hopper and Curly Top Virus “Curly top can be a devastating disease, considering it survives in a wide range of weed hosts, is hands spread, and difficult to manage. The leafhopper picks up the virus while feeding on infected weeds in spring. When weeds dry down, the leafhopper migrates to irrigated gardens and rangeland. A leafhopper can spread the virus… Read increasingly July 17, 2014 Tip of the Week: Flea Beetles There are two worldwide species of flea beetles (the tobacco flea protrude and the western flea beetle) that are now urgently feeding now on a variety of crops including: cabbage, radishes, eggplant, melons, peppers, potatoes, spinach, rutabagas, parsnips, collards, kale, broccoli, brussels sprouts, beets tomatoes and turnips. “Adult beetles, which produce most plant injuries, chew… Read increasingly June 28, 2014 Things to Consider When Using Organic Fertilizers Most fertilizers are labeled with a sequence of numbers detailing the percentage of nitrogen (N), phosphate (P2O5) and potash (K2O) they contain. For example, a well-constructed inorganic fertilizer containing all three may be labeled 16-16-8, meaning it contains 16% nitrogen, 16% phosphate and 8% potash. Not all fertilizers are considered equal, expressly when comparing inorganic and organic options.… Read increasingly June 16, 2014 Pollinator Week Limiting use of insecticides is a really important part of protecting our pollinators! Happy #PollinatorWeek everyone. Read increasingly Utah State Unveristy is an affirmative action/equal opportunity institution Snap theme by The Theme Foundry error: Content is protected !!