Dear MOTHER: August/September 2011

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Reader Christina Scheel of Washougal, Wash., laid out her entire garden in about an hour using our interactive Vegetable Garden Planner. With the Garden Planner e-newsletter, she gets email updates telling her when particular veggies she’s growing in her garden need to be sown or planted out.
Reader Christina Scheel of Washougal, Wash., laid out her entire garden in about an hour using our interactive Vegetable Garden Planner. With the Garden Planner e-newsletter, she gets email updates telling her when particular veggies she’s growing in her garden need to be sown or planted out.
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Reader Tom Wechter’s church in North Carolina used the MOTHER EARTH NEWS Vegetable Garden Planner to plan its 92-by-125-foot community garden that will provide food and work for some of the unemployed and financially challenged people in the area.
Reader Tom Wechter’s church in North Carolina used the MOTHER EARTH NEWS Vegetable Garden Planner to plan its 92-by-125-foot community garden that will provide food and work for some of the unemployed and financially challenged people in the area.
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The Florida Weave is an inexpensive and easy way to support tomato vines. 
The Florida Weave is an inexpensive and easy way to support tomato vines. 
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Hornworms don’t eat tomatoes — the green worms are difficult to find because they remain on, and only feed on, the leaves of plants.
Hornworms don’t eat tomatoes — the green worms are difficult to find because they remain on, and only feed on, the leaves of plants.

Herbicide Contamination Continues to Kill Gardens

I wish I had seen your article Keep Your Garden Safe From Killer Compost (April/May 2011) before I got 10 yards of composted horse manure. My garden is ruined. All of my tomatoes are curling up like they were zapped by a Martian death ray. I took my plant samples to my state’s agronomist yesterday and he confirmed severe herbicide damage. My county extension office didn’t even know about it here in North Carolina. My dream garden is all but ruined thanks to chemical companies who don’t really care that their potent herbicides have been damaging our gardens for years.

I beg of you to print this information more often — my experience has been hell. The least I can do is try to keep someone else from hurting like I do.

Cary Brief
Raleigh, North Carolina


  • Published on Jul 5, 2011
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