Agriculture
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Your vegetable garden can be beautiful
Veteran vegetable gardeners take pleasure in tilling up long, straight row gardens with all the plants arranged in perfect, straight lines. They’re proud of their weed-free swaths of bare topsoil, maintained with hours of patient hoeing. For the rest of us, this approach to vegetable gardening seems like a lot…
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Benefits of fresh seasonal produce
By Marsha McCormick, SNAP-Ed Program Assistant, OSU Extension, Adams County Buying fresh produce in season allows you to take advantage of fruits and vegetables at their peak ripeness and optimal flavor. While fruits and vegetables in all forms provide important nutrients, fresh produce offers some unique benefits. When purchasing fresh…
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Information for the local farmers
By Richard Purdin As the old saying goes, April showers bring May Flowers. With the recent rainfall many of our pastures and hay fields are really starting to grow, the trees are also starting to leaf out at a rapid pace. My hopes are that this continues, and old man…
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Information for the local farners
By Richard Purdin The weather has been quite the roller coaster ride the last 10 days, with temperatures going from highs in the 30s last Thursday to highs in the mid 70s this week. Easter Sunday was a beautiful day and dry, this could be a good or bad thing,…
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Information for the local farmers
By Richard Purdin The last week of March is gone, and April 2021 is here, the weather outlook for the next 10 days looks very favorable with mild temperatures and near normal precipitation. I would say for the most part producers are sitting well ahead of schedule for their to-do…
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Information for the local farmers
By Richard Purdin Spring is officially here and hopefully here to stay. With the recent wet weather and this week’s warm air and sunshine, things are really taking off and beginning to grow. I have been able to get some field scouting done and while working on the farm I…
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Green water in your garden pond?
By Steve Boehme With the arrival of spring, those of you with water features are getting them ready. Summer is the most challenging time of year for pond and water feature enthusiasts. Keeping pond water clear and clean in 90 degree heat with sixteen hours of sunlight takes some advance…
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Information for the local farmers
By Richard Purdin Is spring here to stay? This is a question on many producers minds these days, the 10-day outlook sure looks convincing that spring has sprung. But history tells me that it is way to early to put the coveralls up for the year. For those farmers that…
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Weed control in landscapes
Weeds are the biggest challenge for landscape gardeners. There’s no single magic solution to weed control in your landscape, but if you understand weeds you can defeat them using a simple system of controls. First you need to know some weed basics. There are three basic kinds of weeds; Annual,…
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Information for the local farmers
By Richard Purdin What a change March has brought for southern Ohio, a pleasant change at that. With plenty of sun and nice dry winds, the ground is drying out and giving farmers a chance to get some late winter and early spring chores done. Many producers have taken advantage…
