Managing Outbreaks: Remove badly affected plants and swish their roots in warm water to remove maggots. This simple method protects seedlings from egg laying by adult cabbage flies.
Only a small mass of roots is required to keep the plants alive, but it's important to keep garden soil packed around the primary roots as the plants are dug and moved to buckets. Once they have filled this flowering gap, biennial vegetables like celery,...
Preventing Problems: To provide excellent protection, cover seed beds with floating row covers before seedlings emerge, and make sure to bury the edges under the soil and leave crop covered until harvest.
Harvesting Harvest bulblets from topsetting onions and use them as pearl onions in the kitchen. Often grouped with garlic and shallots. Position Full sun to partial afternoon shade.
Our Garden Planner can produce a personalized calendar of when to sow, plant and harvest for your area. Fall-grown turnips can be stored in a cool root cellar for several weeks. Spacing Single Plants: 7" (20cm) each way (minimum) Rows: 5" (15cm) with...
Our Garden Planner can produce a personalized calendar of when to sow, plant and harvest for your area. Usually horseradish should be planted by itself. Spacing Single Plants: 1' 1" (35cm) each way (minimum) Rows: 1' 1" (35cm) with 1' 1" (35cm) row gap...
When growing seedlings indoors, allow the soil to dry between waterings if the plants can tolerate it. Some of the larvae present in the soil will have migrated to the rich new food supply.
Our Garden Planner can produce a personalized calendar of when to sow, plant and harvest for your area. Dig the roots after the weather cools in the fall. Spacing Single Plants: 1' 1" (35cm) each way (minimum) Rows: 11" (30cm) with 1' 3" (40cm) row gap...
Our Garden Planner can produce a personalized calendar of when to sow, plant and harvest for your area. Spacing Single Plants: 3" (10cm) each way (minimum) Rows: 3" (10cm) with 3" (10cm) row gap (minimum) Sow and Plant Start seeds indoors in late winter...
Mulch to keep the soil cool and moist. Companions Chives, Onion, Onions and Peas. Position Full sun. Harvesting Harvest in mid to late fall, after the soil has cooled and frosts have become frequent.
Our Garden Planner can produce a personalized calendar of when to sow, plant and harvest for your area. Harvesting Use a digging fork to loosen soil along outside of the planting before pulling roots.
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Siberian iris have few pest problems, and are seldom eaten by deer. Plant shallow, so that the rhizomes are barely covered with soil. Harvesting Cut irises for arrangements as soon as the buds show good color; they will continue to open indoors.
Harvesting Dig plants in early fall to harvest the roots. Echinacea's purple blossoms contrast well with pink, yellow or orange flowers. Frost tolerant Echinacea is a hardy perennial that survives very cold winters.
Nutrients from the fresh soil help feed the plants, but container-grown plants also need regular feeding with a balanced organic fertilizer through the first half of summer, while they are growing rapidly and producing new leaves.
If storing shallots, cure in a dry place for 10 days after pulling the plants. Our Garden Planner can produce a personalized calendar of when to sow, plant and harvest for your area.
Our Garden Planner can produce a personalized calendar of when to sow, plant and harvest for your area. Gather stems for drying in early summer. Companions Asparagus, Corn and Tomato.
Mulch over the tops of mature carrots to keep their shoulders from turning green. Companions Chives, Potatoes, Leek, Lettuce, Peas, Radish, Rosemary, Sage, Tomato, Onion and Onions.
When the large plants are cut back in summer, old branches are quickly replaced by a fresh flush of foliage. Harvesting Roots to be used to make medicinal ointments or skin creams can be harvested at any time, but preferably in early winter.
Harvesting Harvest young leaves for salad greens as you thin young plants. Notes Each seed is actually a multi-celled capsule, so you may need small scissors to thin plants to proper spacing.
Sheets of cardboard can be used to kill off persistent weeds Perennial weeds with deep or spreading roots, including bindweed, ground elder and nettles can take a year or more to die off.
Grow short-day varieties in southern latitudes. When bulbs form and the tops of the plants fall over, pull them and cure in a warm place for about 10 days before storing. Do not feed plants that are nearing maturity if you want very sweet onions.
When caught early both pests can be controlled with insecticidal soap. Use large-flowered anemones as feature plants in the summer garden. They naturalize beautifully in hospitable climates.
A small vacuum is a good way to collect cucumber beetles. Managing Outbreaks: Spotted cucumber beetles are difficult to hand pick because they are small and prone to flying away. Damage: In spring, spotted cucumber beetles often can be seen on squash...
One small stem tip with four to eight leaves is plenty for one or two cats to enjoy. Catnip flower clusters are visited by numerous small beneficial insects. If desired, small plants can be potted up in fall and grown through winter indoors.
As flowers fade outdoors, snip them off with scissors to encourage reblooming. Troubleshooting Especially in warm, wet weather, tired snapdragons may collapse from various root rot diseases.
