Study Hall / Gardening With Greg
Summer Squash Tips for Every Beginner Gardener
Summer squash is the first thing to pop up in your spring garden with an only 55-60 day maturity rate; these few tips will help take your summer squash to the next level. With all plants, you have to find the seed that is right for you, at Hoss Tools we enjoy using the hybrid varieties as they boost in production. Hybrid...
Warm-Season Cover Crops will be the Best Thing to Happen to your Soil
Cover crops are a great way to improve the health and nutrients of your soil. Warm-season cover crops work explicitly great as a transition between spring and fall gardens. In South Georgia, that means we can plant warm-season cover crops anywhere from early spring until late fall. So how do you know which...
How-To Scratch Potatoes Without Harming the Vines
Scratching is a southern term used in gardening, meaning digging up a few of your potatoes early. This blog is going to explain how-to scratch potatoes and help you enjoy your garden before that ten weeks maturity period is up. Potatoes have a long maturity period, and at times we can get a little impatient, and...
ProCut Sunflowers- The Best Way to Keep Bees in your Garden!
Squash, Tomatoes, Cucumbers, those are all things that come to our mind when someone says they are starting a garden, but where are the ProCut Sunflowers?? Sunflowers, especially the ProCut variety, are a beneficiary to any garden by attracting pollinators. Not only do they draw the pollinators, but they will also...
New Seeds from Hoss Tools to Help the at Home Gardener
As we are continuing to expand here at Hoss Tools, we want to meet the everyday needs of our customers. That has to lead us to the decision to start selling new seeds! We have been trying to answer the question of what can we offer that others cannot? After much research and deliberation, Hoss Tools...
Tomato Growing- Everyone's Favorite Vegetable or Fruit??
Almost everybody's favorite thing to do in the vegetable garden is tomato growing, but did you know tomatoes are a fruit! Tomatoes come from the ovary of a flowering plant, making it a seed-bearing fruit. Others like this that we usually classify as vegetables are eggplants and peppers. Tomatoes are a favorite item in...
Digging Potatoes- When do I know they're Ready?
Irish Potatoes are one of the most maintenance-free crops, but the big question is, how do I know when my potatoes are ready? Digging potatoes is the hardest part about growing a potato plant. You will know it is the right time, though when the vines start dying back, and the weather is consistently warm and dry...
How to Control Powdery and Downy Mildew in the Vegetable Garden
Some of our favorite vegetable garden crops are in the cucurbit family which includes squash, cucumbers, winter squash, and summer squash. However, these cucurbit crops are the most susceptible to powdery mildew and downy mildew which are very harsh diseases in the vegetable garden. When...