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Growing Biennial Vegetables for Flowers and Seeds
Like the other biennial vegetables listed below, carrots bloom at a time in late spring when nectar plants are in short supply, usually after spring-flowering trees and shrubs, but before summer annuals.
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Win the War on Weeds!
Revisit growing areas once a week to remove young seedlings before they've had a chance to establish. Ground Resistance Resistance is far from futile! Consider covering bare soil with a cover crop or green manure to crowd out weeds and add valuable organic...
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Free Mulch! How to Make It and Where to Get More
Shredded prunings are great for mulching and path surfaces Most gardens containing shrubs or trees produce lots of small prunings every year. It makes a great path surface if replenished annually, but if using it on beds let it rot down first.
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How to Create a Vegetable Garden on a Slope
Very steep slopes that require steps to navigate need beds that sit atop one another and must be maintained from the sides, while more moderate slopes can include pathways between shallower tiered beds.
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5 Tips for Late Summer Planting Beds
Deadhead Bed for Flowers and Herbs As you clean up after tired flowers and herbs, you will encounter mature seeds. When I do use compost to top-dress fall veggies, I place old boards or pieces of weathered cardboard along the edges of the bed to provide...
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How to Ripen Fruit Faster
If the variety you're growing is heavy cropping, you could continue picking early on in order to maintain a balance between ready-to-eat peppers and those that are lined up and earmarked for consumption over the coming days.
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Keep Plum Trees Healthy and Productive With Summer Pruning
Environmental stress can cause a similar silvering, but it's likely to affect the whole tree, not just selected branches as with silver leaf. Choose a point just above a bud. Bacterial Canker in Plum Trees Bacterial canker is another serious disease that...
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How to Dry Chili Peppers
Drying is an excellent way of preserving chilies. Storing Dried Chili Peppers Dried chili peppers can be stored in any airtight container. Dried chilies are just as versatile as fresh chilies.
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Help Your Garden Survive a Summer Drought
Concentrate your watering where it's needed: young seedlings to help them establish, salad leaves to stop them wilting, fruiting vegetables like tomatoes and anything growing in a pot.
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Grow Potatoes for a Christmas Crop
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 moist then unearth them when you are ready.
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Growing Fruit: Why Thinning Creates a Better Harvest
Some fruits, particularly plums, can become exceptionally heavy if they aren't thinned, leading branches to strain then snap under the weight. Thinning helps to produce bigger, healthier apples How to Thin an Apple Tree So let's show you how to go about...
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5 Organic Controls for Greenhouse Whitefly
Whitefly love the color yellow and will flock to the cards, only to get stuck and meet their end. With an initial assault complete, it's now time to apply an organic insecticidal soap, again taking great care to cover all areas of the leaf including,...
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6 Ways to Extend Your Harvests
Using row covers can keep the chill at bay and extend your harvests into fall 6. None of these techniques are exactly rocket science, but by applying each you'll almost certainly be able to eke out more from your fruiting and pod-producing vegetables...
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Fight Pests Without Using Bug Spray
It's important to follow the instructions on the label very carefully. If codling moths on your apples are a problem, you can use sandwich bags to make the fruits inaccessible. And don't forget to report any pests you see at BigBugHunt.com .
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Growing Cabbages from Sowing to Harvest
How to Sow Cabbage Cabbages may be started off in an outdoor seedbed to transplant once they're bigger, or under cover into modules or pots, which also enables an earlier start to the season.
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Make the Most of Your Summer Garden
Avid gardeners are busy gardeners. Permanently positioned garden seating looks fantastic when it's visually anchored. Well-considered seating is the answer. Make your own flower pot beer cooler – no tools required! And how about this ingenious idea...
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Try Asian Radishes this Fall
Wonderful Watermelon Radishes The round radishes with red interiors called watermelon radishes have a more poetic name in their native home of China – shin ri mei , or “beauty in the heart.” These round radishes grow to 4 inches (10cm) in diameter,...
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3 Ways to Use Up Your Glut
Use them to bridge the gap to next season's abundance. Like a fine wine, chutney matures with age as all the ingredients meld into a delicious symphony of flavors. It's a nuisance – albeit a welcome one.
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Growing Rutabagas for a Bumper Fall Harvest
The most stalwart members of the turnip tribe, rutabagas are a rustic cross between wild turnip and cultivated cabbage that came about in Scandinavia, Russia or perhaps Lithuania in the late Middle Ages.
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Saving Seeds from Beans, Peppers, Onions...And More!
You can get a lot of seeds from just a few plants, which makes saving these seeds very worthwhile indeed. Spread them out onto newspaper to dry out on a warm windowsill for seven to ten days.
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Nicking Plant Seeds: Why Should You Nick Seed Coats Before Planting
Other seeds don't absolutely require it, but nicking will encourage the seeds to germinate more reliably. It's important to know how to nick flower seeds as well as other plant seeds before starting your garden.So, why should you nick seed coats?
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Seed Pods Are Soggy – Why Are My Seed Pods Mushy
Seeds can deteriorate very fast in such wet and damp conditions. After removing all the debris from the seeds, check them for moisture damage.Moisture can typically cause damage in the following ways:– If the seeds are mature enough, moisture may soften...
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What Is Reseeding: How To Manage Self-Seeders In Gardens
Vegetable and fruit seeds germinate fairly near where the parent plant was located. These seeds are designed to carry the plant's genetic material on in the form of new plants. Alternatively, move the plant to a location where that family group had not...
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Natural Rooting Methods – Organic Rooting Options For Cuttings
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. The very easiest method for rooting plants organically uses only one ingredient that you're guaranteed to have at home: spit.
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What Are Plantable Containers: Gardening With Biodegradable Plant Containers
They are durable enough for short term production, and can be planted directly into the ground.Once in the ground roots are able to grow through the walls. There are pros and cons with each pot; read this guide to help select the type of plantable pot...
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Fungus Control When Seed Starting: Tips On Controlling Fungus In Seed Trays
Unopened bags are sterile, but once opened, the mix comes in contact with pathogens easily. To discourage fungus and speed drying, you can cover the seeds with a very thin layer of sand or chicken grit instead of soil., keep in mind that saved seeds are...
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What Is Plant Layering: Learn About Plant Propagation By Layering
This allows you to create a number of fresh new plants where you formerly only had bare stems, and will make perfect copies of your favorite plant varieties.What is plant layering?
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