Here are a few items you need to do to prepare your garden in January if you want to get an early start on your plantings: Plan your garden – What do you want to grow? Are there any new varieties you want to try? Where are you going to get your plants? Order your …
We here at the Charley’s Veggies blog have partnered up with the editors at AOL Home website Gardening page to provide information for gardening articles and pictures to help those who want to learn about gardening. Helping people learn and be successful in the garden is the main goal of our Charley’s Veggies blog and …
I’d like to introduce Aaron and Alison. They have a small garden they are growing this summer and selling the produce here at our greenhouses. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2ws_Cz7cN0] The tomatoes suffered through about 6 weeks of rain. They survived but don’t look so good now. A few weeks of sunshine and some TLC and they should perk …
We’ve been real busy here on the farm shipping out Charley’s Veggies Plants so we haven’t had much time to get the garden ready. Didn’t matter much anyway. It has been so wet that the ground is just now starting to dry out. Charley and Paul (Charley’s brother) are finally getting to plow up the …
Here are Five Tips for Growing Container Vegetables Use potting soil (peat based) in your containers. You can use dirt from your yard but be sure to mix in potting soil or peat moss as at least 50% of the soil volume. The potting soil will add drainage to the dirt and prevent the soil …
We have recently added graphics of the plant tags to each variety page of Charley’s Vegetables. This will allow you to get a visual on what each variety of vegetable looks like and also become familiar with the Charley’s Vegetables tags. Now you will know what to look for when you go to buy your …
These are some pictures of our first crop of Charley’s Veggies. We loaded most of these up along with a lot of tomatoes and peppers and shipped them out to the Stine Lumber stores in Louisiana last week. I just took an order from Naylor’s Hardware and Garden Center in Baton Rouge, LA, and they …
I wasn’t really ready to go live, but Lacey had started sending me all this good information (see her posts below) so I decided to get it out there so that everyone can start getting ready for their spring garden. The one goal we have for this web site is to tell and show anyone …