Five summer mulch mistakes in vegetable gardens and the fixes: about 3 inches of light-colored mulch, a gap at every stem, no dark mulch in summer, deep watering through the mulch, and soaking the soil first.

Bean plants stop when pods ripen on the vine, heat drops the flowers, or they get too much nitrogen and too little water. Three fixes, plus a second sowing.

Stop the squash vine borer before it lays eggs with a row cover until flowering, foil around the stems and twice-weekly stem checks, and save a hit plant by slitting and burying the stem.

Zucchini flowers but no fruit usually means the flowers are male so far, or the female flowers were not pollinated. How to tell the flowers apart, why pollination fails, and how to hand pollinate.

Blossom end rot is the black patch on the bottom of a tomato, and it usually comes from uneven watering, not a lack of calcium in the soil. The three fixes: steady water, mulch and compost.

A cold fall compost pile has one of four problems: size, nitrogen, water or air. How to tell which one with your hand, the fix for each, and what to do with finished compost before the ground freezes. The written version of my video.