August 27, 2026 Don’t do it. Don’t look at your tomato plants between 3 and 6 pm. Avoid eye contact! If you can’t resist taking a peek, you will see sad wilting leaves and you will want to run for the watering can (but alas, you don’t need to be alarmed; the plant knows to […]
July 24, 2026 The sweetest treat we offer at FECO are the drupes (berries) from our Illinois Everbearing mulberry tree. The tree not only draws crowds, it is self-pollinating and, in our experience, disease free. It produces copious amounts of fruit all summer long, hence the name Everbearing. In Turkey they make a snack called […]
June 22, 2026 To pea or not or pea. That is the question … I ask myself every spring. Shelling peas, to be precise. In early March I ponder, should I torture myself again for a few handfuls of shelling peas? Spring rains can rot the seeds and turn them to mush. The squirrels dig […]