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The Three Sisters
An Iroquois Indian legend tells of three sisters: the youngest, so small she could only crawl at first, wore green; the middle sister, who liked to run off by herself, wore bright yellow; the third and oldest sister, who stood tall and straight as she...
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El Segundo
Corn, A Crop of Many Uses
A popcorn tip: store it in the freezer to maintain its freshness.Corn is also an important ingredient in more than 400 nonfood products. When the steam reaches a high pressure and explodes it creates a "popped" kernel.
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How Much Sun for Corn?
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. Corn types that must fully mature and dry kernels and cobs may need a sunny garden plot free from frost for upward...
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Santa Monica
Butter Daisy, a Low Maintenance Annual
The dead plants were pulled from the planter and nothing was left except the pine needle mulch. No pinching is needed, since they are self branching. Several cultivars have been introduced, mostly in smaller sizes than the species.
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How to Freeze and Preserve Sweet Corn
Summer's bounty is upon us and learning to preserve our fresh fruits and vegetables is a healthy and economical way to enjoy our hard work. There are also reusable plastic freezer boxes that are cost-effective if used over several years, that those of...
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El Segundo
Popcorn Plant Facts
Sow the seeds in spring, after the last frost date in your area, when air temperatures remain above 61 degrees Fahrenheit. Water often enough to keep the soil slightly moist. The shrub's buttery yellow flowers spring from black buds in spring through...
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Santa Monica
Machines Used to Harvest Corn
According to the website for the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, these devices are built of rows of three to six conveyors that harvest corn still on the stalk, strip the corn of its unusable components and spit them out through...
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Santa Monica
Growing Biennial Vegetables for Flowers and Seeds
Stored in separate plastic bags, sound specimens will keep in great condition until late winter or early spring. Plants Related to this Article Carrot Grow Guide Cabbage (Spring) Grow Guide Beet Grow Guide < All Guides
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Liverpool
Win the War on Weeds!
Keep compost heaps and potting mixes covered to prevent blown-in seeds from settling. Weeds are a bane for us gardeners. It's that combination of persistence and resistance that makes them so frustrating! Weeds employ some pretty underhand tactics to...
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Liverpool
Free Mulch! How to Make It and Where to Get More
It can take two years or even longer for leaves to rot down enough to be considered leafmold. The value of mulching is one of the most important things I've ever learned as a gardener.
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Liverpool
How to Create a Vegetable Garden on a Slope
By midsummer, the structure that underpins a terraced vegetable garden disappears as it is overrun by exuberant plants. Measuring a slope's rise and run is a first step in creating a hillside garden Don't take on too much at first, because most terraced...
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Liverpool
5 Tips for Late Summer Planting Beds
The legumes germinate best while the soil is still warm, so they are usually planted in September. The corn plants may not use up all the fertilizer applied to the row middles, so it's a cushy planting niche for heavy-feeding fall crops like collards...
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Liverpool
How to Ripen Fruit Faster
Simply lay these soft-skinned beauties, stem-side down and not touching, between two layers of breathable linen. As summer loosens its hold and autumn looms ever closer, many nervous gardeners may be wondering: ‘Will my fruiting vegetables ripen in...
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Liverpool
Keep Plum Trees Healthy and Productive With Summer Pruning
They often tend towards what's known as biennial or alternate bearing, where trees produce a bumper crop one year, only to take the following year off. Cutting them out sooner rather than later means you can make smaller cuts that are less likely to become...
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Liverpool
How to Dry Chili Peppers
Even thorough scrubbing fails to remove all traces of chilli pepper's spicy capsaicin; as you might imagine, a careless rub of the eye during a momentary lapse of concentration can be painful.
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Liverpool
Help Your Garden Survive a Summer Drought
Try two – one for each hand. Set it to come on very early in the morning, before things heat up. Get around this problem by simply placing the end of the hose in a watering can so that it fills as you pour.
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Grow Potatoes for a Christmas Crop
Position the seed potatoes 30cm (12in) apart along the bottom of trenches spaced at least 60cm (24in) apart. In temperate regions, little more than an extra pile of earth strewn over the top of the rows should be enough to provide an additional layer...
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Liverpool
Growing Fruit: Why Thinning Creates a Better Harvest
Aim to leave one fruit every couple of inches (5-8cm), or if it's easier, one pair of plums every six inches (15cm). Nectarines should be thinned once to six inches (15cm) apart. The fruits left to grow on will enjoy more airflow, sunlight and energy...
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Liverpool
5 Organic Controls for Greenhouse Whitefly
Repeat over several days to begin to bring an infestation under some semblance of control. And if that's not enough, honeydew can attract diseases such as black sooty moulds on plants already weakened by the whiteflies' persistent sap sucking.
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6 Ways to Extend Your Harvests
How do you keep your pickings coming? And if you're heading away from home for more than a week, encourage your neighbors to harvest them – they'll get free food and you'll come home to continued pickings! Keep picking to keep the harvests coming 2.
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Liverpool
Fight Pests Without Using Bug Spray
What's your favorite earth-friendly way to protect your garden from pests? No food gardener's armory is complete without a length of fine mesh netting. Naturally you don't want pests to destroy the crops that you've worked so hard to grow, but reaching...
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Liverpool
Growing Cabbages from Sowing to Harvest
A bed improved with compost or well-rotted manure is ideal for these hungry feeders, who will appreciate a further boost in the form of an organic general-purpose fertilizer raked into the ground at planting time.
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Make the Most of Your Summer Garden
Make the most of late summer's abundance by seeking out imaginative recipes to turn any gluts into delicious drinks. Then feed more sand in between the pots right up to the rims, before pouring in water to thoroughly wet the sand.
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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. Then factor in that daikons are a pickler's dream, whether you ferment them in a salt brine or turn...
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Liverpool
3 Ways to Use Up Your Glut
For flavor add a big fat clove of crushed garlic, 250g (9oz) of dark brown sugar, 280ml (half a pint) of white wine vinegar, plus some grated ginger, a few chopped chillies, mustard seeds and a generous pinch of salt.
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Liverpool
Growing Rutabagas for a Bumper Fall Harvest
The roots will push up as they gain size, and garden-grown rutabagas tend to be more top-shaped than round. Pull the plants, trim off long roots and tops, and wash the roots lightly before letting them dry for a day in a cool place.
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Liverpool
Saving Seeds from Beans, Peppers, Onions...And More!
See our video and article How to Prepare and Store Seeds from Your Tomato Plants for more on this. Shell the pods to reveal the beans or peas inside, then discard any very small, misshapen or damaged seeds.
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