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I have been gardening on a slope for more than 10 years, and every season I learn a little more about the hillside and its potential. Raised Beds for a Sloping Vegetable Garden Building a terraced vegetable garden is basically making raised beds on a...

Get Ready for Planting Garlic Finally, it's never too soon to get ready to plant garlic, which deserves loose, deeply dug soil that has been generously amended with compost. When I do use compost to top-dress fall veggies, I place old boards or pieces...

Rice also traps ethylene, a fact that hasn't gone unnoticed by many Indian households who sink the fruits into containers of rice. By removing ready-to-eat fruits, you'll divert all of the plant's energies into those that remain.

Remove covers during the day to enable pollination, then replace it in the evening to provide a little warmth and protection against lower temperatures. Consider cutting back overhanging foliage and act promptly to remove spent crops so that those remaining...

A pest is just a creature that likes the same food we do, so show some tolerance, protect what crops you can, and use nature's own balancing system to ensure your crop doesn't get munched before you have time to harvest it.

For the healthiest growth they need an open, sunny site and rich soil. Plant your seedlings into prepared ground. Caterpillars prefer nasturtiums, so they'll be more likely to eat these instead of your cabbages.

Then feed more sand in between the pots right up to the rims, before pouring in water to thoroughly wet the sand. Sowing, planting, weeding, watering, harvesting, deadheading, composting, pest control… and the rest! But as summer moves swiftly along...

Expect to be inspired by these long-storing beauties. Purple daikons like ‘Sweet Baby' are popular at fall farmers markets. Asian radishes grow slower than little salad radishes, so they are best planted about eight weeks before your first frost date.

One of my favorites deals with that glut goliath, the zucchini. Chutneys are simply magnificent, capable of storing in the cupboard for many months. Place them into a pan with your spices, plus sugar and vinegar.

Pull the plants, trim off long roots and tops, and wash the roots lightly before letting them dry for a day in a cool place. The root word, rotabagge , is Swedish for thick root, which hints at the density of rutabaga roots when compared to turnips.

The seed heads are definitely ready once they have dried out and can be flaked off into a bag for cleaning and sorting. This way you will actively select for those plants that perform the strongest and are best suited to the conditions in your garden.

Make your cut so that it slopes away from the bud to help rain to drip off. Do any branches point inwards, cross over each other or look like they'll cross in the future? Bacterial canker affects plums, cherries and other trees in the Prunus family.

Arrange the chili peppers by spacing them out in a spiral formation – each chili should be offset about 30 to 60 degrees from the previous one. Cotton thread comes a close second.

Again, take care to water well before laying it. Success with Germination In hot, dry conditions getting seeds to germinate can be tricky, particularly those of cool-season crops such as lettuce.

If winters are severe or your soil is wet and heavy, then you're safer lifting all of the potatoes to pack them into boxes of coarse sand kept in a frost-free place. Second, you'll need to consider the risk of frosts later on in the growing cycle and...

The main benefit of thinning to the gardener is to give those fruits that remain the space they need to grow into bigger, healthier fruits. Apples and other trees are already full of young fruits, which will grow on to give a delicious crop towards the...

Just like aphids they produce a sticky ‘honeydew', which is in fact…their feces. And it gets worse. Whiteflies are great at making more of themselves. You can buy them on cards primed with ready-to-hatch pupae to hang up near infected plants.

Troubleshooting Onion root maggots can cause plants to collapse. In clay soil, use raised beds or rows. Feeding Not normally required. Remove infested plants. Notes Used in place of onions for concentrated flavor.

Tips: Most conventionally grown cucumbers and melons are grown with dangerous systemic pesticides, so organic pest control is worth the time and effort. The Western version is slightly larger.

Notes Borage seedlings are only edible when very young. Feeding Not generally needed. A fresh crop of plants can be planted in late summer for bloom in the fall. Borage attracts large buzzing insects that dominate their air space.

Frequently the plant will break off as you pull it from the ground. Damage: When young onion plants wilt for no apparent reason, pull up a sample plant to check for legless worms (maggots) feeding on it roots.

Notes Valerian produces extremely fragrant flowers in early summer. Often planted with low, mound-forming herbs and flowers. Feeding Not generally needed. Position Full sun to partial afternoon shade.

Gather stems for drying or steeping into tinctures in early summer, just before the plants bloom. Position Any sunny spot. Companions Squash, Tomato and Beans. Troubleshooting Control lemon balm's spread by cutting back flowering stems in late summer.

Planting tulips behind daylilies or other summer-blooming perennials hides the fading foliage from view. Harvesting Cut tulips to use as cut flowers just as the buds open. Perennial candytuft makes an ideal companion plant.

Space dwarf varieties 8 inches (20cm) apart in all directions; allow 12 inches (30cm) between very tall varieties. Companions Thyme and Osteospermum. Feeding Mix a light application of a balanced organic fertilizer into the soil prior to planting.

Crop Rotation Group Solanaceae (Potato and tomato family) ● Soil Rich soil with plenty of compost mixed in before planting. Planting and Harvesting Calendar < Back to All Plants Pests which Affect Tomato (Large) Aphids (General) Colorado Potato Beetle...

Crop Rotation Group Umbelliferae (Carrot and root family) ● Soil Deeply worked soil that has not had compost or manure added withing 6 months. Planting and Harvesting Calendar < Back to All Plants Pests which Affect Parsnip Aphids (General) Carrot Rust...