Some CSAs even offer front-door delivery, either for an additional cost or as part of the member fee. In fact, you'd love to sit on your porch with a glass of wine, a loaf of crusty bread, and a plate of perfectly ripe, right-off-the-vine tomatoes.
These aprons are long enough to turn up the bottom edge and attach buttons and buttonholes to form a big adjustable harvest pocket. How many shirts or skirts have you ruined by pulling them up and filling with nuts, herbs, fruits, and vegetables?
A better bet may be, cream peas, purple hulls, or crowders to sate your legume appetite. Eggplant, okra and peppers require warm soil to germinate, about 70 F. (21 C.).Depending on which area of the south you are in, you may be able to grow snap beans...
“During college, I worked at an urban farm in Portland, Ore., called Zenger Farm, where I taught kids about sustainable agriculture and worked in the fields planting, harvesting and weeding,” Susman says.
Ornaments can be made from various dried plants. Add a pretty ribbon to the jar and your gift is ready to go!For a luxurious gift that all gardeners would love, try making lotion bars.
Check the manual of your machine to find out how much oil you'll need—there may also be advice about which type of oil to use. Gloves It's almost inevitable that you'll have to touch some oily items during an oil change, whether it's the drainage valve,...
They are happy in a wide range of lighting and average household temperatures. In maturity the leaves become wider and bigger. The picture at right shows a variegated (leaves having white or yellow markings) Ming aralia.The all green types are just as...
Local donors invite members of Urban Youth Harvest onto their properties to pick oranges, apples, lemons, grapefruits, plums, figs and other unwanted produce. Tags Jodi Helmer Photo courtesy of iStockphoto/Thinkstock Nonprofit groups are feeding the hungry...
Ugh, tax time! Are you wishing that you had a magic money tree? A minor point but one that some readers may find importantMoney Tree art at left by the incomparable "Inky" Used here with permission, Thank you! Inky Art not to be used elsewhere without...
If the pH comes back too high (alkaline), you'll need to apply the suggested amount of elemental sulfur to drop the pH to the desired number. Keep Them Covered As the carrots grow, their shoulders may might up out of the ground.
To deter them, I cover my newly planted radish seeds with floating row covers. For a colorful, hearty vegetable to kick off your spring garden, make space for radishes. At this pH, the greatest variety of nutrients is available for plant use.
The Jerusalem artichoke, or sunchoke, is a Midwest native that produces an edible tuber. Every aspect of daily life is affected when we aren't getting nutrition from our food. Make room in your garden for this easy-to-grow ornamental.
While carrots, parsnips and celery benefit from soil with a similar pH (roughly 6.0 to 7.0), celery grows best in heavier soil that contains more moisture than is required by carrots and parsnips.
Over-fertilization can likewise lead to disaster, leaving you with big beautiful plants and no fruit. Why People Fail Radishes don't mind warmer soil, but they don't like hot growing periods.
And according to Louise Riotte in her classic book Carrots Love Tomatoes (Storey Publishing, 1998), hairy vetch seems to make a good companion for the turnip family. Some areas of the south can overwinter rutabagas, though growing for a fall harvest is...
They take longer to mature from seed than most crops, but will provide continuous harvests for much longer durations, as well. They do, however, require more light, higher average temperatures and more time to mature from seed to harvest.
For Bozelli, that means she's in the garden planting spring-grown radishes every few weeks, beginning in mid-March and continuing until late April, though she says they get excellent results from fall radish sowings, as well.
White Wonder Cucumbers These cukes have the look of traditional green cucumbers, but the skin and flesh is bright white. It's best harvested when the root reaches 2 inches in diameter.
Hilling increases the underground surface area for tuber production, but an alternative to this process is to simply mulch your potato plants with a thick, 8- to 10-inch layer of straw.
How To Harvest Harvest fennel when the bulbs are roughly 3 inches wide. Bronze fennel, for example, is intended solely for the fronds and flowers and does not make a real bulb, while good bulb varieties include Solaris, Orion and Florence.
Kennebec is a great potato variety to grow here in the Northeast. New potatoes are immature potatoes with delicate skin and a short storage capacity, they have a creamy, melt-in-your-mouth texture.
It was an exceptional year for the squash—I harvested well over a dozen butternuts and about 10 Delicata. Artichokes ( Cynara scolymus ) do best where temperatures are consistent year-round because the plants are susceptible to freezing.
Seeds are planted indoors, under lights, in late winter and the transplants are nestled into the garden just after the danger of frost has passed. Set each cooked round on a platter and season with salt and pepper, and sprinkle each with chopped parsley.
That's like saying you don't like tomatoes when all you've ever eaten is one of those cardboard pith-fests from the grocery store. Was the turnip you ate pulled out of the soil the same day it was picked?
Hold all of these cords together and thread the ring over them. At about the halfway point, you will want to change their positions so that the carrier cords will be used to tie the knots and the original knot tying cords will become the carrier cords.
A chill (anything much below 65 degrees F) is more imminently fatal to these tropical natives than dim lighting. Insect complaints are few but if bugs bother your bamboo, try washing them off with warm soapy water, or treat them with insecticidal soap...
Spray painting it with flat brown paint made the galvanized metal of the cage less obvious. The rain and cold of winter does little harm to the tough grapevine construction.Grape vines are easy to find because they grow wild throughout the countryside.
