Growing A Vegetable Garden

The refrigerator helps to slow down the ripening.Remove the avocados from the refrigerator two days before you plan to prepare them. Place them in a warm location so that they will ripen fully.

Grand Rapids varieties like "Red Sails" and "Black-Seeded Simpson" have broad, ruffled leaves. Capitata) straight from the garden. Early morning cutting also lets plant wounds begin to heal before exposure to hot sun threatens to scorch tissues.

The pumpkin will slowly suck up the sugar mixture, helping it grow bigger.Keep an eye on the sugar mixture, and replenish the bowl when it is empty. Dunk your cotton string into this mixture.Make a small slit with your knife in the base of the pumpkin's...

While the peppers are very hot in flavor, they are also rich in vitamin C. Remove small flowers until the plants become established if you are growing them from transplants. Habanero peppers thrive in hot weather and acidic soil.

Broccoli relies on pollination to reproduce just like other fruits and vegetables do. The lumpy surface contains thousand of immature flower buds. When the broccoli flowers open, they have petals, stamen, stigma, pistle, ovule and pollen.Broccoli seeds...

Otherwise, your plants will not produce fruit.Pest damage to the vines and stems of cucumber plants can prevent water from reaching the leaves and cause plants to wilt.can affect all cucurbit plants, including cucumbers.

Check the plant every few days, as the peppers will not all mature at once.Left on the bush, Hungarian wax peppers will turn a red-orange color as they reach full maturity, as will most varieties of hot and sweet peppers.

Store the radishes for up to a month in the refrigerator.Inspect the radishes once weekly. A perforated bag allows air circulation while retaining moisture during storage. Use them immediately if they begin to discolor or develop soft spots.

It must be a cream or yellow color, not green or white. Other signs that a watermelon is ripe include: a pale green color between the stripes, a dry and curvy tendril, a smooth rind and round edges.Wrap a picked, unripe watermelon in a paper bag.

Select those with an approximate 6-inch diameter and a smooth, cream or light brown exterior. The white flesh of the root is edible, both raw and cooked, and is often used in salads or cooked in the same manner as potatoes.

Cherry peppers start out green in color and then ripen to a bright red. Harvest the cherry peppers when they are uniformly red in color.Slice the stem of the pepper plant with a sharp knife.

If there are indentations where the rubber band or string was tied, avoid the asparagus as the bunch is starting to lose its freshness.Check the tips, which should be tightly closed and either dark green or purple.

Carefully dig up one or two hills of potatoes and pick up some of the tubers.If the skin slides or rubs off easily, your potatoes are not readyfor harvest and won't store well if you dig them now.

In 1953, the Ore-Ida Company came up with one of the greatest waste reduction procedures of all time. Prior to 1953 hundreds of pounds of leftover scraps of various potato products were discarded.

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Pour mixture into a spray bottle.Spray the leaves of the pepper plants thoroughly with the solution. Keep a close watch on the plants to make sure insects do not return. Repeat weekly or as necessary.

Knowing your soil type helps determine how much and what nutrients your cucumbers need. Heavy soils can lock nutrients up. If you don't make your own compost, you can buy commercially bagged compost or bulk compost at most garden centers and nurseries.Feed...

Red onions can be eaten raw, boiled, broiled, baked, creamed, steamed, fried or pickled. Till the soil until it is loose and ready for planting. Planting small red onion bulbs, known as onion sets, allows gardeners to bypass the first year of growing...

Pat dry with a soft towel.Cut each head into quarters. It can be time consuming and is not always necessary. If you spend a lot of time in the garden already, you likely want to get your harvest sealed up and stored as easily and quickly as possible.

Standard soil tests may not include boron, so send samples to a soil testing laboratory for a specific test if you suspect boron levels are off. Toxicities occur most often in in areas with low rainfall.When boron is lacking, many products meet the need.

The Inferno hot pepper plant grows very uniformly shaped peppers, and it will be easy to distinguish the mature fruit from immature by the large, elongated size.Using the color of any variety of pepper is one of the easiest and best ways to know when...

Mulch the ground with untreated grass clippings to conserve moisture. Spread 1/4 inch grass clippings over the soil each week, allowing the clippings to dry before adding more. Avoid composts that contain biosolids or sludge in the vegetable garden.Don't...

The stems of eggplants grow similarly to tomato plants, with suckers appearing between the main stalk and the side branches. Prune eggplants carefully throughout the growing season to ensure that the plants grow properly and produce a bounty of delicious...

Put the two vegetables together in a paper bag and close the bag. Keep the indoor temperature above 55 degrees Fahrenheit to promote good pepper quality. Cooler temperatures slow ripening, but when the mercury climbs, the peppers will ripen quickly.

Pechay plants require little space. Quick growers, pechay leaves are ready for harvest in as little as one month. Sprinkle peat moss over each seed, filling the remainder of the seed starter tray.Cover the seed tray with a clear plastic lid or piece of...

Plant peppers when daytime temperatures are between 70 and 80 degrees Fahrenheit. Apply a low-nitrogen, high-phosphorus fertilizer, such as a 5-10-10 formula immediately after planting to establish strong roots.

The root system of an onion is located on its bottom.Use a knife to cut 1 ½ to 2 inches off the bottom of the onion.Place the onion bottom in a dry shaded area for 1 to 2 days or until the flesh of the onion has dried.