Tag Archive for: Brassica

Will The Weeds Save Us?

January 21, 2026 Can you name the plant genus that includes a huge percentage of our cool weather food crops, and includes the third most important oilseed crop in the world? Also in this genus is an invasive weed that starves out all competition, common throughout our Southwest, California, Utah, and Mexico. The genus is […]

Your Hori-Hori Could be Harboring Clubroot

November 26,  2019 © 2020   I meet weekly with the DirtLife group at Sound Bio Lab. Other members are scientists who are also interested in soil. We are designing a community-based science project so we surveyed the Seattle P-Patch gardeners, via their listserve. Fifty responded. Gardeners are interested in microbial diversity, effective composting and […]