Best Time To Plant Cantaloupe

There may also be a crack near the point of attachment and the stem will become brown.Once your cantaloupe is ready to be harvested from the vine, it helps to know how to pick it. If it's ripe enough, the melon should separate easily from the vine with...

It's formed by inserting overlapping, branched twigs into the ground down the length of a row of peas so that the tendrils have something to grasp and climb. It's nearly pea-planting time! One of my favorite homegrown veggies, peas find a spot in my garden...

Read more of Garden In Front » Tags garden , grow , snow peas As a cool weather crop, peas don't do well with heat and humidity, which means it needs to be planted pretty early in most regions.

Prior to that, the states could begin and end on any dates they picked. That still doesn't make any sense to me. Canada, with the exception of most of Saskatchewan, observes DST. Arizona, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam and American...

Thinking back on which annuals have been the highest performers, I immediately think of butter daisy. Several cultivars have been introduced, mostly in smaller sizes than the species.

Which brings us to the refrigerator, the ideal storage space for biennial root vegetables you want to grow for flowers or seeds in spring. Last fall I attended a dinner where the host used a huge garden carrot as the centerpiece.

Act fast! A little effort now will save you considerable trouble later on. Don't let the weeds get you down: persistence pays off and once you've gained control hoiking out the occasional weed can be seen as a pleasure, not a chore.

They will help suppress weeds and contribute to a well-structured soil once they've rotted down. It has a beneficial effect on soil life, which results in better plants, so is a very desirable addition to the vegetable garden and to potting mixes .

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I like to restore my haggard tomato patch with a cover crop of mustard , which can reduce disease carry-over when it is quickly chopped up and turned under. Fall-sown legumes like winter peas boost soil nitrogen when allowed to grow until they begin to...

The peppers can then color up indoors, in the warmth, leaving the remainder to develop further. I'm very keen to hear how you speed ripening along at the end of the season. Squashes need to be cured before storing , a simple process that will keep your...

July and August is the best time to prune plums in most Northern Hemisphere locations. Soft shoots can be pinched out with your thumb and forefinger. Choose a point just above a bud.

The warm flow of air will see the fruits dried out within 24 hours or so. When to Harvest Chili Peppers for Drying You don't need to wait until your chilies turn colour before you pick them.

Try two – one for each hand. Two watering cans are better than one! Don't Blast Your Plants A strong spray from a hose can knock plants about or blast potting soil out of containers.

You need to allow enough time before the temperature drops and growth slows right down. Potatoes can be enjoyed immediately, but if you want to have a shot at keeping them until Christmas leave the spuds untouched in containers, keeping the compost barely...

Nectarines should be thinned once to six inches (15cm) apart. Their smaller fruitlets may be thinned using just your thumb and finger to detach the surplus. We need to thin them to just one or two fruits per cluster.

Each adult lays hundreds of eggs which hatch out into larvae with an insatiable appetite for whatever plant they're sat on. Severely affected plants can eventually turn yellow and wilt, producing lacklustre growth at best.

Water-stressed plants quickly slow down. Continue Feeding Plants Don't scrimp on feeding your crops. Remove covers during the day to enable pollination, then replace it in the evening to provide a little warmth and protection against lower temperatures.

Horticultural fleece can also be used. Pests can sometimes infiltrate your garden among the leaves or in the potting soil of shop-bought plants, so if you buy (or are given) young plants always check them carefully for signs of pests before introducing...

Cabbage heads, or hearts, can be rounded or conical, with leaves that are light green, dark green, red or purple. Savoy and other winter cabbages benefit from a light frost to bring out their flavor.

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Some of the newest daikons are purple rather than white or green. Then wash the radishes, pat them dry, and store them in plastic bags in the refrigerator. The crisp radishes are mild enough to eat raw or cooked, they make a great refrigerator pickles,...

Hang herbs upside down in a warm, dry and airy place. Berries and currants are very easily frozen – just lay them out onto sheets so they're not touching, freeze them solid then decant into freezer bags or containers for packing up.

The leaves are big and wavy, like turnips, but have a smooth surface with bluish bloom like cabbage. Rutabagas are highly sensitive to boron deficiency, which leads to a condition called brown heart, a discolored hollow in the middle of the rutabaga.

Best Vegetables for Seed Saving Some vegetables are easier to save seed from than others. First check the seeds are ready by opening up a seed pod to observe the seeds inside. When you come to think about it, saving seed is the ultimate in self-sufficiency.

Do not use seeds that are gathered from store-bought cantaloupes because the cantaloupes are probably grown from hybrid seeds and the seeds will not produce properly, if at all. The fruit can be kept in storage at 45 to 50 degrees F for up to two weeks.

Inspect and remove cucumber beetles from young cantaloupe plants twice a week. Companion planting is based on the idea that certain plants are mutually beneficial when planted in near proximity.