Monocot Root Vs Dicot Root

What's better than a sweet potato? Harvesting Purple Sweet Potatoes Although you can harvest the occasional tuber anytime after the plants come into flower, plan to harvest your main sweet potato crop just before the first frost strikes.

Where were they? Instead, grab the radish where it meets the soil, and twist the root gently as if unscrewing it from the ground. Harvest Like A Pro Here is a harvest tip to avoid breaking daikon while harvesting: Don't pull straight up! You may snap...

When growing carrots in pots, you can easily protect them from these critters by locating the containers close to your house or by fencing the pot with a small cylinder of chickenwire fencing.

Leave an inch or so of stem intact. Work the garden's soil to a depth of 6 to 8 inches and add lots of organic matter prior to planting. This means multiple plants arise from each planted seed, making thinning absolutely necessary.

When To Harvest Just like garlic and onions, shallots are ready for harvest when the leaves turn yellow and begin to die back. Shallot sets are far larger than even the plumpest onion set.

This will keep your family in radishes, without overwhelming you with too many. Try these varieties: Easter Egg: for its brilliant, mixed colors French Breakfast: for it's elongated, crisp root Cherry Belle: for its traditional radish flavor Turnips Turnips...

Marketers in Louisiana, where the orange-fleshed varieties were first grown, wanted to distinguish them from the traditional yellow or white-fleshed types, then grown on the East Coast.

Avoid Extreme Temperatures If you are hoping for good spring/summer fennel, you will need to start the plants indoors four to five weeks before your last frost date. Mulch Established Plants When you're cultivating around fennel, be careful not to disturb...

What's your favorite variety? The skins of new potatoes are paper thin and easily bruised, so we cook and eat them immediately. New potatoes are immature potatoes with delicate skin and a short storage capacity, they have a creamy, melt-in-your-mouth...

A potent aromatic that can release congestion in many systems of the body, horseradish is a must-have root for every family garden. This is perfect as a pork marinade, but also a supplement that can be eaten right out of the jar.

Soil requirements: Rich, fertile soil, high in nitrogen. Spinach can be grown under floating row cover to prevent leaf miner and aphid damage. Sow all varieties in August for late-season harvest and overwintering.

Grow beautiful, straight, unblemished carrots by cultivating good soil health from seed planting to harvest. Exposure to sunlight can cause the shoulders to turn green and bitter. Irrigate at ground level, if possible, as wet foliage promotes fungal diseases,...

If your soil is deficient in phosphorus, work some bone meal or rock phosphate into the area in the fall. Radishes tolerate frosts quite well, so you can sow your seeds about four to six weeks before your last expected frost.

Jerusalem artichokes, aka sunchokes, can be eaten like a potato and are great for restoring the digestive fire in your gut. My favorite benefit for eating the Jerusalem artichoke is that inulin is an important food source for the healthy flora in your...

Nearly every gardener faces a nemesis or two, and not necessarily in the form of aphids or fusarium wilt. So many farmers' market vendors focus on tomatoes, summer squash and other popular crops.

Size: 12 inches Sunlight requirements: Full to partial sun (A minimum of four to six hours is ideal.) Water requirements: About 1 inch per week—overly wet soils promote black rot and other diseases.

You hear it often: Someone will try gardening, fail miserably and determine that they weren't born with a green thumb. Perhaps discouraged by summer failures, too few gardeners plant fall gardens.

Rootnot, white spot and club root are common diseases that may occur. 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.

Then it was firmly packed into this new pot with wads of sphagnum. The potted plum's root ball was wrapped in fabric and tied, and placed in a pot. The top of the "soil surface" was a solid mat of sphagnum moss.

Furrow planting is also an option: Use a hoe or other tool to open up a shallow trench, sprinkle the seeds into the furrow, and lightly cover them with soil. Flea beetles and other insect pests don't like to land on the powder to feed.

White Beauty has been around since the mid-1800s and produces fruits that weigh 1/2 to 1 pound each. Grow it in the very early spring or in the late fall for optimum flavor. The sweetness of the flesh is accentuated by hints of pineapple and citrus.

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.

Peel the harvested roots with a pairing knife and slice them carefully as the flesh can be quite hard. Frosts sweeten the flavor of rutabagas, because it converts their starches into sugars.

You're not familiar with it? The soup may be safely stored in the fridge for up to three days. It is frost-tolerant once it is mature.It requires full sun, and does best with a soil pH of between 6.8 and 7.0. Feed your plants with a fertilizer such as...

It is quite a beautiful plant. I spent a few hours last evening working in my vegetable garden. Because artichokes are tender perennials that take at least 110 days to mature, they often don't produce any “chokes” until their second season, though...

Throughout the growing season, celeriac requires ample moisture, so mulching it with an inch or two of straw is a good practice. By the time October rolls around, your celeriac crop will be ready to harvest.

Was the turnip you ate cooked properly? With frost's first kiss, turnips go from being bland ol' root vegetables to the belle of the ball. But while the humble turnip may fall short in the charisma department, it more than makes up for it in flavor.