You water it, you harvest it, and somehow by mid-July your basil plant looks like it’s trying to become a…
You watered it Tuesday. It looked fine Tuesday. Wednesday morning it’s a heap of yellow, wilted leaves lying flat on…
You planted those hydrangeas for the blue or pink or white blooms, and now, right in the thick of July,…
You walk out to check on your zucchini and the leaves look like someone dusted them with flour. That’s powdery…
You water it, you harvest it, and somehow by mid-July your basil plant looks like it’s trying to become a Christmas tree — tall, woody, and topped with little white flower spikes instead of the tender leaves you actually wanted. That’s bolting, and it’s basil’s way of saying “I’m done growing leaves, I’m making seeds…
You watered it Tuesday. It looked fine Tuesday. Wednesday morning it’s a heap of yellow, wilted leaves lying flat on the ground like it gave up on life sometime overnight. If your squash or zucchini plant went from thriving to collapsed in the span of about twelve hours, put the fungicide down. This isn’t powdery…
You planted those hydrangeas for the blue or pink or white blooms, and now, right in the thick of July, they’re going… green? Not sickly green. Not \”something is wrong\” green. More like an antique, dusty, watercolor green that’s honestly kind of gorgeous once you stop panicking about it. This is usually just the flower…
You walk out to check on your zucchini and the leaves look like someone dusted them with flour. That’s powdery mildew, and if you’re growing squash, cucumbers, melons, or pumpkins in July, you’re going to meet it eventually. The good news: it’s rarely a death sentence for the whole plant right away. The bad news:…
If you planted garlic last fall, mid-July is probably when you’re standing in the garden holding a fistful of bulbs, feeling pretty proud of yourself. Good. You should. But here’s the part nobody warns you about: pulling the garlic is the easy 20% of the job. The other 80% happens over the next several weeks,…
You’ve been babying these tomato plants since May. Then one morning you go out to check on that first big beefsteak and the bottom of it looks like it’s been through something. Sunken, leathery, dark brown or black, sometimes with a weird flat spot that’s almost caving in. Your first instinct is probably “blight” or…
