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How to Create a Vegetable Garden on a Slope
Natural stone is often free if you live in a mountainous area, and as long as you stack a low wall so that it tilts slightly backward, into the slope, it should need only minor restacking at the beginning of each season.
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5 Tips for Late Summer Planting Beds
Fall-sown legumes like winter peas boost soil nitrogen when allowed to grow until they begin to bloom in spring 3. Summer Compost for Fall Veggies My new seedlings of broccoli, cabbage, kale, kohlrabi and other widely spaced plants get a huge helping...
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How to Ripen Fruit Faster
If temperatures remain below this for much of the day, chances are the fruits will simply fail to ripen. As summer loosens its hold and autumn looms ever closer, many nervous gardeners may be wondering: ‘Will my fruiting vegetables ripen in time?' This...
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6 Ways to Extend Your Harvests
Plants Related to this Article Zucchini Grow Guide Beans (Bush Snap) Grow Guide Pepper Grow Guide < All Guides Grass clippings are a ready-to-hand source of instant mulch too, and will help to keep plant roots cool and moist in hot, dry weather.
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Fight Pests Without Using Bug Spray
Plants Related to this Article Broccoli (Purple Sprouting) Grow Guide Broccoli Grow Guide Cabbage (Summer) Grow Guide Bugs, Beneficial Insects and Plant Diseases Cabbage Worm Guide Carrot Rust Fly Guide Cabbage Root Maggot Guide < All Guides
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Growing Cabbages from Sowing to Harvest
Cabbage heads, or hearts, can be rounded or conical, with leaves that are light green, dark green, red or purple. When you sow depends on what type of cabbage you're growing. Another clever technique is to grow nasturtiums close by as a sacrificial crop,...
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Make the Most of Your Summer Garden
Choose a clump-forming variety, so it doesn't spread through your garden like wildfire. This can be achieved by framing it with, for example, large terracotta pots bursting with bedding plants, herbs or topiary.
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Try Asian Radishes this Fall
Asian radishes including daikons, Chinese radishes, and watermelon radishes are great fun to grow as summer turns to fall, but you'll need to get busy. They will keep for months. Warm soil temperatures promote fast germination, so the seeds will be up...
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3 Ways to Use Up Your Glut
As you'd expect, there are many thousands of chutney recipes. Slice vegetables and fruits thinly then dry according to the manufacturer's instructions. Simmer until thick (this should take anywhere from one to three hours) then decant into sterilized...
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Growing Rutabagas for a Bumper Fall Harvest
Transplant or thin rutabagas to at least 8 inches (20cm) apart, with wider spacing even better. 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...
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Saving Seeds from Beans, Peppers, Onions...And More!
Saving these vegetable seeds isn't challenging and it's amazing how many seeds you can get from just a few plants. Leave the seed heads to dry out in a warm, well-ventilated place such as a greenhouse.
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Keep Plum Trees Healthy and Productive With Summer Pruning
Silver leaf disease is spread by spores from a bracket fungus. It's better to use a more powerful tool and make a clean cut than to struggle to force the blade of a lightweight tool through a thick branch.
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How to Dry Chili Peppers
How to Make a Chili Pepper Ristra A ristra is simply an arrangement of drying chili peppers. Begin by tying a knot into one end of the line. You can use your dried chilies as needed, or infuse whole fruits in sterilized bottles filled with olive oil to...
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Help Your Garden Survive a Summer Drought
Balance and Speed Using a watering can? Another option is to use a portable tank to cart water to where it'll be dispensed. If your water source is some distance from your beds, it also means less walking back and forth.
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Grow Potatoes for a Christmas Crop
Whether or not you choose to leave potatoes in the ground depends on how cold early winter is in your part of the world. The easiest way to grow second-crop spuds is in containers .
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Growing Fruit: Why Thinning Creates a Better Harvest
It sounds counterintuitive, but there's logic behind this apparent madness I promise! Read on or watch our video to find out why we do it. We need to thin them to just one or two fruits per cluster.
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5 Organic Controls for Greenhouse Whitefly
You can buy them on cards primed with ready-to-hatch pupae to hang up near infected plants. They will attack plants growing outdoors as well as in the greenhouse. Yes, really! In a bad outbreak a handheld vacuum can be very effective at sucking up clouds...
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How to grow: Shallots (Growing Guide)
Planting and Harvesting Calendar < Back to All Plants Pests which Affect Shallots Aphids (General) Slug Snail Plant Diseases which Affect Shallots Allium White Rot Onion Downy Mildew
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How to grow: Cucumber Beetle, Striped (Growing Guide)
Preventing Problems: Plants including buckwheat, borage, catnip and radishes attract numerous beneficial that can help control cucumber beetles. You can also try growing varieties like ‘Little Leaf' and slicing cucumbers, which lack the bitter gene...
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How to grow: Borage (Growing Guide)
Troubleshooting Beware of sleepy bees when pruning or otherwise working with mature borage plants. A good companion for any crop that needs strong defense from insects. Feeding Not generally needed.
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How to grow: Onion Root Maggot (Growing Guide)
At the end of each season, be sure to pull all onions from the garden. They lay eggs at the base of onion plants, and the larvae tunnel into onion roots. Tips: Yellow sticky traps or yellow pans of water can be used to monitor and trap onion flies.
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How to grow: Valerian (Growing Guide)
Companions Echinacea, Catnip, Agastache and Dill. Notes Valerian produces extremely fragrant flowers in early summer. Position Full sun to partial afternoon shade. Spacing Single Plants: 2' 11" (90cm) each way (minimum) Rows: 2' 11" (90cm) with 2' 11"...
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How to grow: Lemon Balm (Growing Guide)
Planting and Harvesting Calendar < Back to All Plants Pests which Affect Lemon Balm Aphids (General) Slug Snail Spacing Single Plants: 1' 11" (60cm) each way (minimum) Rows: 1' 11" (60cm) with 1' 11" (60cm) row gap (minimum) Sow and Plant Start with a...
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How to grow: Tulip (Growing Guide)
Companions Daylily, Catnip, Bells of Ireland and Salvia. Our Garden Planner can produce a personalized calendar of when to sow, plant and harvest for your area. Frost tolerant Excellent.
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How to grow: Ageratum (Growing Guide)
In midsummer, drench plants with a liquid plant food to stimulate new growth. Space dwarf varieties 8 inches (20cm) apart in all directions; allow 12 inches (30cm) between very tall varieties.
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How to grow: Tomato (Large) (Growing Guide)
Position Full sun. Harvesting Pick regularly as soon as the fruits turn color but are still firm. Set out after the last frost has passed, when the soil is warm and settled. Frost tolerant No. Feeding Weekly liquid feed or seaweed drench from mid summer...
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How to grow: Parsnip (Growing Guide)
Position Sun or partial shade. Notes Thin seedlings to proper spacing when they are 4 inches tall. Spacing Single Plants: 7" (20cm) each way (minimum) Rows: 7" (20cm) with 11" (30cm) row gap (minimum) Sow and Plant Sow direct into soil, and cover the...
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