Welcome to the second edition of Kearsarge Food Hub’s Summer Gardening Video Series. In the first installment, we explored how to start our gardens. Now let’s take a look at garden maintenance.
We’re back in the garden at Colby-Sawyer College with Professor Leon Malan to explore a few key areas of garden maintenance:
Caring for our tomato plants;
Slug control;
Fertilizing our gardens.
What’s the main way we can prevent disease in our tomato plants? What’s one beverage that slugs can’t get enough of? What’s one little known consequence of too much rain in the garden?
Leon fills us in on this and more in the two videos below.
Whether you’re a first time gardener or you’ve been growing gardens for a while, you’re bound to learn something (just like we did!) from Leon in the garden. He provides a wealth of knowledge from his vast experience growing gardens with sustainable methods focused on celebrating the land, caring for soil, and producing high quality (and delicious) veggies!
Let’s dig in…
Video #1: Caring for our tomatoes.
Video #2: Slug control and fertilizing the garden.
We hope you’ve learned something here to apply in your garden today!
The summer gardening video series is in partnership with FEED Kearsarge - a collaborative on a mission the Kearsarge Area of New Hampshire to grow more gardeners. Why?! Because gardening supports not only food security for more neighbors but also connection to nature and JOY for the spirit!
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