I recently ordered my seeds for this year and I would encourage you home gardeners out there to consider doing the same. I am sure some of you will pick up your seeds from the Home Depot rack or your local garden supply store. There is obviously nothing wrong with this but you limit yourself [...]

We just added a new cool tool to VegeNag.com. It is a plant date finder that predicts the BEST outdoor planting date for your area. It is called BEST because it doesn’t just tell you an appropriate range or the date that the plant won’t die. It finds the date that is Beneficial in that [...]

As we continue to develop features for VegeNag.com, we have finally completed the planting guide. This guide will display key planting information for each different vegetable based on your area. For example, here is a screen shot of my planting guide (zip code 84660) for the vegetable Cabbage. Notice that the user’s frost free date [...]

Wanted to let you all know that after a couple of years, we have finally launched the VegeNag website. VegeNag is a service that will email you everytime you are supposed to do something for your vegetables in the garden. All you have to do is tell us where you live and what you are [...]

Here in Utah we have a great gardening show every Saturday morning with Larry Sagers, a brilliant man. I benefit so much from this show. I thought I should let everyone else know that you can listen to the shows via podcast for free. Even if you don’t live in Utah you will benefit greatly [...]

I have been receiving most of my seed catalogs over the past few weeks and I received one I have never seen. I went to their website last year after a friend told me about them and requested a catalog. The company is PineTree Garden Seeds. The reason why I like their catalog so much [...]

There is a wonderful free service that Utah State Extention provides for those growing anything in their yard. It is the Plant Pest Advisories. You can subscribe to these advisories so that you will receive an email every week to alert you what you should be looking for in terms of pests and how to [...]

In a prior post I discussed very basic pest and disease practices to control your unwanted plant killers. In order to be effective while being environmentally friendly, most states use an

I have taken the time to accumulate all of the links for each vegetable that the USU vegetable specialists have published fact sheets on. This information is invaluable because it is specific to Utah and tells you exactly what to do for each vegetable that you may be growing. I have posted a new page [...]

It is about time to where you can begin planting some vegetables. Therefore, it believe it is relevant to post some things about planting vegetables. First, what types of vegetables can you plant. In Utah, like in many areas, you can get away with three different gardens, depending on where you live. A spring garden, [...]