Community Blog · Northwest Georgia
Real experiences, tips, and harvests from gardeners across Cherokee, Bartow, Floyd, and Gordon Counties. Share yours — members can post, comment, and connect.
Tomatoes are the most popular vegetable in NW Georgia gardens and also the most disease-prone. Our combination of warm temperatures, high humidity, and frequent summer storms creates ideal conditions for fungal diseases. The good news is that most tomato diseases are preventable with good cultural p
Read Full Post →Compost is the answer to almost every Georgia clay problem. Poor drainage — add compost. Plants yellowing — add compost. Soil baking hard in summer — add compost. It is not a quick fix, but it is a permanent one and making it yourself costs almost nothing. Here is how to build a productive com
Read Full Post →Garlic is one of the most rewarding crops a NW Georgia gardener can grow — you plant it in October when the rest of the garden is winding down, ignore it all winter, and harvest beautiful bulbs in June. It takes up minimal space, stores for months, and home-grown garlic tastes dramatically better
Read Full Post →There are few things more satisfying in a Georgia summer garden than thumping a big watermelon and hearing that deep hollow knock that means it is perfectly ripe. Northwest Georgia has nearly ideal conditions for watermelon — long hot summers, plenty of sun, and enough rainfall to support big frui
Read Full Post →Sweet potatoes are one of the best crops for Northwest Georgia gardens. They love our heat, tolerate our clay soil better than almost anything else, and produce abundantly with minimal attention. Once established they practically take care of themselves. The challenge is knowing the timing and under
Read Full Post →Collard greens are as much a part of Northwest Georgia culture as red clay and sweet tea. They are also one of the most productive and forgiving vegetables you can grow in our zone. A single well-tended row will feed a family from October through February with almost no intervention. Here is how to
Read Full Post →Saving seeds connects you to thousands of years of agricultural tradition and saves real money. A single packet of heirloom tomato seeds costs five dollars and contains 25 seeds. Save seeds from your best plants for three seasons and you will never buy those seeds again — and you will have seeds a
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