C. L. Fornari's Blog

One of the pleasures of growing vegetables is being able to cook the most flavorful food on earth. And if you can add flower petals to that dish, it's an #instantelevation.  At this time of year we are eating the last of the frozen vegetables from our freezer. I still...

If you could get a postcard from your tomatoes, this is what it might say... Many people still believe that blossom end rot on tomatoes is caused by a lack of calcium. It's actually caused by stress to young tomato plants, and that is usually from uneven or inadequate...

If your peonies routinely get botrytis mold in the spring, it's likely that your weather is often cool and damp. In this case, you might want to spray the emerging foliage and buds with an organic fungicide every year as the plant grows. For an occasional browned bud...