I was pleasantly surprised walking into a large department discount store and finding insecticidal soap sitting at the end of an aisle in the garden center.  Insecticidal soap is a fantastic organic, non-toxic pest control product, and I couldn’t have found it at a better time since white flies just took up residence in my greenhouse.

Some plants need a little extra support to stay upright as they grow.  Others grow indeterminately and staking saves space.  Most vegetables grow very quickly and keeping the plants off the ground encourages good air circulation with translates to fewer disease problems.  In the greenhouse, space is valuable and keeping plants vertical opens more room for more plants!

When growing food crops, it can be overwhelming to get a large harvest of one vegetable at one time.  For example, what is a two person household going to do with fifty carrots?

Plants are delicate when they are very young.  The first general rule of (green) thumb is to handle the seedling by one of the leaves and not the stem.  The plant can recover from a damaged leaf more easily then a damaged stem.