Starting A Vegetable Garden

Keep reading to learn more.An instant garden is essentially a quick shortcut for making a garden overnight using potted plants, both flowering and foliage. We'll just have the reception in the backyard here,” I quickly chimed in, hoping to stop her...

I'm not an “artsy” person per se, but I always tell people that the garden is my canvas because it truly is my way of letting the artist out. Or make up your own theme using my next suggestion.freestar.queue.push(function() { googletag.display("div-gpt-ad-300x250-ATF-1");...

These Artichoke-type varieties produce layers of 10 to 20 cloves around the center stem and are great for roasting or mincing raw into olive oil for dip. Bulbs are ready to harvest in midsummer and will keep for up to eight months in storage.

Harvesting your own potatoes is a lot like a treasure hunt, and it's even more fun when your harvest turns up red, purple, pink, yellow and white potatoes! You'll receive All Blue, Butte, Carola, King Harry and Rose Gold varieties — each with a distinct,...

(The days to maturity column is calculated from seed sowing, not transplants.)As for lettuce and other leafy greens, it's pretty amazing how tolerant they are of crazy temperatures.

Vitamin A is a fat soluble vitamin found in many foods that we can easily grow in our gardens. Reduce your risk for many chronic diseases such as heart disease and stroke by eating more fruits and vegetables.Support your local farmers market or grow your...

It is also very cold tolerant, and may be transitioned to the garden quite early in the season. Here are a few cold tolerant vegetables that you can start right now, so theyill be ready to plant as soon as you can work your soil.Cabbage family members,...

I hope you find this table as helpful as I do, because let's face it - who doesn't forget all this information every year?Tomatoes present a tangible problem for Rocky Mountain gardeners: our short growing season.

It's nostalgia. It's for Mom.http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/finder/index.php?sname=Tomatoeshttp://davesgarden.com/community/forums/f/tomatoes/all/Starting Tomato Seed and Other Helpful Information by Dr.Carolyn Male:Starting 101: Grow the best TOMATOES...

This article showcases some of the new introductions in greens that gardeners can plant in 2008 to add some spicy flavor accents to their salads, as well as some that stand particularly well in warmer weather when many kinds of greens turn bitter and...

Are you ready to turn your thoughts to this year's garden? Many of these lettuces are new introductions, or newly available in an organic version.Others may have been around for a couple of years but offer superior qualities, such as heat resistance,...

The seed catalogs piling up by your easy chair tout the wonders of seedling heat mats and they are right! Heat mats can produce remarkable results. They gave me good advice and assistance when I purchased mine.

I might try to recreate the super veggie cream cheese I've had at The Bagel Club in Glen Burnie, Maryland: cream cheese freshly hand-mixed with finely chopped scallions, grated carrots and perhaps some secret ingredients I'll have to puzzle out.

Begin by deciding when you'll plant the pepper in your garden. I space peppers 12 to 18 inches apart, depending on the variety. Pepper plants will survive as long as there's no frost or freeze.

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Ceylon spinach, Indian spinach, vine spinach, and Malabar nightshade.Malabar spinach grows well in full sun, although a bit of shade during the hottest part of the day, especially in the Deep South and tropical regions, protects it from midday wilting.

If you have soil amendments to add, such as well composted leaves or manure, till them in. For me, spring planting is one of the best times of year in the garden. I bury my hands in the rich, warm soil.

We are also in the scrap and waste management business. We grow herbs and sustainable forage and wildcraft.

I did not know this prep was called "chitting" until recently. Wait impatiently for those new taters to form!Aug 27, 1893 Sea Island Hurricane - Red Cross workers sort seed potatoes to restore inundated fieldsAll other photographs remain the property...

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Try laying a few pieces of cut, raw potato around in the soil. Be conservative and carfeul with giving the recovering Clivia any water during the next few months. And we know Amaryllis can lose its leaves and then put out new growth from the bulb.

But I wouldn't want to hop around my garden yelling "ouch! ouch!" while waiting for them to decompose.If you are a barefoot gardener, I would suggest putting that batch of leaves into a compost pile.

Answers: As a disclaimer, I have only gardened in New England. And that brings me to suggest you consider a few shrubs which also would hang over the wall, such as winter jasmine or wintercreeper Euonymus.Consider the variables I asked about.

Every week or so,I change the water to keep it fresh. You'll end up with a little less than 28 inches of bare ground in between them. Occasionally we come across a question that we find particularly interesting or intriguing.

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Several studies indicate drought brings on early fall color, but I'm not able to determine if experts suggest excess moisture does as well. Color develops when the tree quits producing chlorophyll, so any changes during the season might jump start the...