Among other dishes you will find Corn, beans and squash were all likely shared by the Plymouth colonists and the Wampanoag Indians at the harvest meal destined to be celebrated as America's first “Thanksgiving” feast., issued by the U.S. Mint to celebrate...
If you laid out an area that size on a map, you would have an area larger than the state of New Mexico. Sweet corn is best consumed with high moisture content; field corn is just the opposite, the less moisture the better.In the U.S. 13.9 billion bushels...
Conversely, grain field, popcorn and Indian corn must fully mature and then dry on the cob to be ready for harvest and long-term storage. Sweet corn kernels are plump, juicy and immature – the tastiest time to eat them.
You can hardly go wrong, especially if what you want is a bed of bright yellow, non-stop flowers throughout the long, hot summer. “Those,” I thought to myself, “would delight the students and look great in the red brick planter.” I bought the...
Use a very sharp knife and make your cut about half way through the kernels. The produce is heated through and partially cooked. This is useful when cooking for a crowd or using your corn in a specific recipe.As I fill my bags, I squeeze as much of the...
Sow the seeds in spring, after the last frost date in your area, when air temperatures remain above 61 degrees Fahrenheit. To grow from seed, soak the seed in water for 24 hours to soften the seed coat.
Crops are usually harvested wet through September 1 and October 15 of each year when using this machine so as to promote the process known as ensiling, which is a form of crop preservation through anaerobic fermentation.
Which brings us to the refrigerator, the ideal storage space for biennial root vegetables you want to grow for flowers or seeds in spring. After a few months in the fridge, the replanted roots are ready to bloom like crazy and produce an abundance of...
You will probably need to replace the cardboard as it rots down. Have you ever had to battle with a weedy, jungle-like garden? Use a sharp hoe to skim the surface and dislodge or slice the seedlings.
Any thicker and it will quickly turn into a sour, vinegary smelling sludge. These mulches may be free but their value to gardeners is inestimable! They help reduce the arduous tasks of weeding and watering in summer, protect your beds over winter, and...
There are no rules on the materials you choose provided they don't leach nasty chemicals into the soil, as can happen with treated lumber or landscape timbers. Natural stone is often free if you live in a mountainous area, and as long as you stack a low...
A small wire bin collects the mess, and gives me a place to put the remains of seed-bearing herbs and flowers that reseed with a little help. A sharp manual lawn edger will take down most cool-season cover crops in a matter of minutes.
This is easy to do if you are gardening in a drier climate or under cover, but in wetter conditions one option is to sever some of the roots to slow the flow of water to the plant.
Soft shoots can be pinched out with your thumb and forefinger. Make sure to choose upward-pointing shoots to counteract this. If you see signs of silver leaf, cut well beyond the area where the dark stain shows in the centre of the wood to make sure that...
These ones won't hang around for long – I've a cheek-flushing chili bean recipe I've been itching to try out! Nevertheless, with lots more fruits on the way, there will definitely be enough for drying and storing in a few weeks.
This means you can water carefully and precisely, enjoying the convenience of a hose – without wasting a drop! Water from the Bottom Watering pots from the bottom, rather than the top, can save a lot of time – and water – in hot weather.
Cover over with another 10cm (4in) of compost then add more compost as the stems grow, topping up 5-10cm (2-4in) at a time until the top of the container is reached. Planting Second Crop Potatoes Second-crop potatoes take about three months to reach maturity.
Some fruits, particularly plums, can become exceptionally heavy if they aren't thinned, leading branches to strain then snap under the weight. Their smaller fruitlets may be thinned using just your thumb and finger to detach the surplus.
Spray at a cooler time of the day and follow up with one or two more sprays a few days later. Encarsia formosa may sound like the Latin name of a beautiful vine, but it's actually a special type of parasitic wasp that lays its eggs inside whitefly larvae.
Continue watering a suitable organic liquid fertilizer on to hungry fruiting vegetables like tomatoes, peppers and eggplant. Remove covers during the day to enable pollination, then replace it in the evening to provide a little warmth and protection against...
If you're regularly affected by a particular pest, it can be worth looking for early or late varieties of plants which may avoid becoming part of a pest's rations if they're not growing at the high-risk time.
You can use a string line to insure nice, straight rows. Continue to water cabbages as they grow. Savoy cabbages have a long harvest period stretching from autumn all the way through winter to early spring.
This can be achieved by framing it with, for example, large terracotta pots bursting with bedding plants, herbs or topiary. After all, what's the point in having a beautiful garden if you can't take a moment to revel in its all-round gorgeousness?
I used lightly blanched watermelon radish sticks to mimic tuna in vegetarian sushi. Expect to be inspired by these long-storing beauties. Watermelon radishes have stiff, serrated leaves that resemble those of turnip, and the only tricks to growing them...
You can make chutney from just about anything you have a glut of: beetroot, apples, beans, or the last of the season's tomatoes, for example. Use them to bridge the gap to next season's abundance.
Avoiding Problems When Growing Rutabagas Like most other root crops, rutabagas need sunny, well-drained soil with a near-neutral pH amended with a modest supply of organic fertilizer or composted manure.
Easy: by saving your own seed from this year's crops to sow next season. You've sown it, grown it and harvested it. Saving seed from F1 hybrids won't work either, which because they are created from two separate parent varieties simply won't come true...
