How To Cut A Turnip

It is best to pull up the plant once it bolts or leave it to self-seed, if you have room. Turnips require soil rich in organic material. Bolting of turnips is common when the soil is void of nutrients, a problem that can be easily prevented with a little...

High humidity is also a causal factor.The disease is spread by wind and rain but may also be present in seeds or overwintered in Brassica debris and wild host plants. Monitor the crop and remove any infected plant material immediately to prevent spreading...

Cut the leaves off near the ground starting on the outside. Knowing when to pick turnip greens will ensure that you harness these nutrients at their peak.are eaten for the thick fleshy root or bulb that the plant produces.

Rooting is a good way to propagate plants. If you cut off new growth from an established plant and put it in the ground, it just might take root and grow into a new plant. While it is sometimes just that easy, the success rate for this process is not...

Managing stock plants is the most important concern whenfreestar.queue.push(function() { googletag.display("div-gpt-ad-300x250-ATF-1"); });The mother plant must be maintained and in the best of health in order to yield perfect genetic material.

There are varieties of turnip that produce large heads of greens and are sown just for harvesting turnip greens.Only cut the greens once if you want a turnip harvest of roots. Some are pulled and bunched together with the leaves and stems intact.

In this article, we will discuss testing semi-hardwood cuttings by doing a simple snap test.for several reasons. Asexual propagation, such as propagating plants by cuttings, allows the growers to get identical clones of the parent plant.

At this point, you can feed the young plant, using a diluted water-soluble fertilizer.Move the plant outdoors when it is mature enough to tolerate outdoor heat and cold – usually a couple of growing seasons.

If you feel that the foliage is pale or the plant isn't growing at the expected rate, feed it with Each shoot develops its own roots, and the original root eventually disappears.Once a shoot has a small mass of roots, transplant it into a pot filled with.

Did you know that honey may contain enzymes for promoting root growth in plants? Some people have even added honey toto aid in rooting. Keep reading to learn more about how to use honey for cuttings.We all know that honey has many health benefits.

One way to create a new plant identical to the parent plant is to take a piece of the plant, known as a, and grow another plant. Remove leaves from your cutting before starting the rooting process.

Read on to learn more.Alternaria leaf spot of turnip shows up on leaves first, displaying small, dark brown or black spots with a yellow halo and concentric, target-like rings. The lesions eventually develop a thick buildup of spores and the centers of...

If possible, purchase seed that has been treated with a fungicide.Avoid watering plants on leaves; provide irrigation under them and only water when leaves have a chance to dry before the sun sets.Some seasons fungal diseases will be more aggressive but...

But the fierce cyclone of 1948 destroyed the spring and the thermal activity was transferred to Cilaos where there is another thermal spring still in use (remind me to bring you there some day).As stated before, Salazie is the most humid of all three...

If you have about a dozen or more road flares, you can stick the next ones in the holes where the smoke from the first flare is coming out, and so on. If you just fill it with dirt, your flare will possibly extinguish itself due to lack of oxygen...

Watering is the key. And we know Amaryllis can lose its leaves and then put out new growth from the bulb. Summerhill Seeds offers the Easy Wave Petunia in thefour o'clock. Try laying a few pieces of cut, raw potato around in the soil.

Personally, I would use the amount listed for square foot use and not worry too much amount the soil depth (cubic foot measure), as the nutrients will be washed down to the root zone with each watering.

(Typically, it's my family that's a little off the mark here.) Anyway, generally you DON'T prune this until after it's bloomed, such as other spring-flowering shrubs like forsythia or lilac.

This is sometimes called "planting on 28 inch centers," ( or whatever the measurement may be.) Planting 28 inches apart will certainly assure ample growing room for those plants. Critterologist wrote a wonderful article about ornamental sweet potatoes...

The simplest, though not the most effective thing to do is to use light-colored pots or paint dark pots a light color. The Australian Forum is a fun area and many folks from south of the Equator gather there to discuss their unique growing conditions.

A big part of what attracts people to Dave's Garden has always been our forums, where gardeners ask and answer questions for one another. Our writers and admins will handpick a few of your questions and answer them in an upcoming Ask-a-Gardener, one of...

Once you begin experiencing regular frosts, your soil temperatures will drop, even though snow is still a ways off.If you are choosing a plant from your local nursery, what condition is it in?

The heat or sometimes the chemicals in the smoke, weaken the seed coat and allow water to enter and germination to begin. I order blue plants that grow purple! So my recommendation is to plant new plants in containers or in a separate trial area until...

If your plants can be cut back, as mine can, cut them back to a few inches above the ground and mound mulch over the stems. The house blocks the worst of the wind and holds a bit of heat from the sun.

Over winter they'll begin to decompose. Visit a plant nursery near you to choose varieties that would be winter-hardy for your area, like oregano, thyme, sage, and lavender. Organic matter in soil is being constantly consumed during the growing season,...

Other questions may be moved to one of our other forums so your fellow members can help you. I'd say your jade plant (Crassula ovata) looks pretty healthy, judging by the bright green tips on the branches.

Then I know it's time to get serious again and remove leaves, branches sometimes, and spray again. You don't want an ant nest or aphids hitching a ride for your comfy climate controlled house.