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Technically, it's fall. It's also going to be over 90 degrees this weekend in Los Angeles, where I live. Despite the absence of dropping temperatures, I couldn't

As I was giving my tomato plants the once-over after returning from vacation, they all looked to be doing well to me. Then I did a double-take.

As it's gotten later in the summer, my basil plants have stopped putting out new foliage and switched instead to flowering. This makes the leaves more bitter.

When I first started tackling the fungus problem in my tomatoes, I reported that the fungus had only been affecting the leaves, not the tomato

That lesson? Cucumbers need lots of water. This is obviously a no-brainer, and I didn't intentionally slack on the watering. I thought my self-watering container would give me

A month ago, I was bereft. "I am mourning the premature death of my tomato plants once again," I wrote. A fungus had swept through the dense

Last week I harvested the remainder of my carrot crop - an entire wine barrel planter that was full of bright-orange roots. The official weigh-in was more

It's the middle of July, and time to grade my garden's performance. Overall, I've been pleased with how things have grown. The best performances definitely came from the

I'll save the post-mortem for another day, when I have more definitive information. Today, I am just mourning the premature death of my tomato plants,