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Oca: A New Tuber To Try This Year
You'll still get tubers; they just might not be as big. Or better yet, plant them in high tunnels. The oca plant has bright-green, three-lobed leaves that can also be added to salads, but it's the tuberous roots that are most often used in the kitchen.
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Philadelphia
Try Purple Sweet Potatoes This Year
If you'd like, you can mulch newly planted slips with straw, untreated grass clippings or shredded leaves, but if you're using the plastic, there's no need to add extra mulch . Damaged tubers should be eaten immediately, but the rest can be placed in...
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Philadelphia
Daikon Radish: Breaking The Rules, Not The Root
As I thought about it, I realized that we had a very cool spring here in Kentucky, which may have prevented the daikon from bolting and going to seed too quickly. In late May, as I was harvesting pounds of lovely daikon radishes, I looked around farmers...
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Philadelphia
Your Step-By-Step Guide To Growing Carrots In Containers
Water them daily during hot weather or when rainfall is inadequate. Growing carrots in less-than-perfect garden soil is a challenge. Carrots are prone to damage from several soil-borne pests, including wireworms, carrot root maggots and flea beetle larvae.
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Philadelphia
15 Tips For Growing Your Best Beets Ever
Don't be afraid to try different varieties of colored beets, too, as each color root provides your body with different nutrients. Because this nutrient's availability is dependent on the soil pH, it's essential to keep the pH between 6.0 and 6.8. This...
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Philadelphia
How To Grow Shallots
Because they cost a lot at the grocery store, you might think shallots are difficult to grow, but that's not really the case. The papery skins will fully cure in about two weeks. With a mild, onion-like flavor, shallots are real champs in the kitchen,...
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Philadelphia
4 Root Crops To Get Your Spring Garden Started
This will keep your family in radishes, without overwhelming you with too many. Root crops are some of the earliest spring vegetables you can plant in the garden. Standout beet varieties in my garden include: Golden : a mellow, yellow-fleshed beet Red...
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Philadelphia
Crop Profile: Sweet Potatoes
The skin does in fact contain even higher amounts of many of the sweet potato's legendary nutritional elements, such as beta carotene. A government labeling rule that allows some sweet potatoes to be labeled as yams came about when orange-fleshed sweet...
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Philadelphia
9 Tips for Growing Great Fennel
Plant In Well-Drained Soil The main disease fennel suffers from is root rot, which can be avoided with well-drained soil. When making your choice, read the description thoroughly to ensure you're getting the right variety for your growing zone and preferred...
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Philadelphia
How to Harvest Potatoes
I like it because it is super easy to peel, stores well and a really good producer in my garden. The skins of new potatoes are paper thin and easily bruised, so we cook and eat them immediately.
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Philadelphia
Horseradish: The Fall Herb Every Family Needs
Fresh horseradish root is extremely aromatic and very healthy. In short, they're extraordinarily hearty and will provide for your family for years if you do your part in eating them.
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Philadelphia
Spinach
Spinach can be grown under floating row cover to prevent leaf miner and aphid damage. Because its productivity is so closely linked to the weather, spinach harvests can be erratic from year to year for many gardeners.
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6 Ways to Prep Your Soil for Better Carrots
Carrots are not drought-tolerant and will sometimes fork, gnarl or turn pithy if the soil gets too dry. Water Just Right Keep the soil well-watered, but don't overdo it. This means that for straight, uniform roots, a deep seed bed is an absolute necessity.
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Philadelphia
How to Grow Radishes
Radishes are the first crop to find a home in my garden every spring, a fact that always surprises me because for many years, I was an unwavering “radish hater.” Until I turned 30, the only radishes I had ever tried were the shredded ones you sometimes...
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Philadelphia
You Say Potato, I Say Sunchoke
If you want to eat them raw, you can slice them like a water chestnut to add to salads. While it looks like a miniature sunflower, it doesn't develop seeds. For their medicinal value, it's really best to grow your own and harvest them just as you need...
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What\'s an Apiaceae Vegetable and How Do I Grow It?
The Apiaceae family, sometimes known as the Umbelliferae, Umbel, carrot or parsley family, is an expansive group of plants that spans more than 3,000 species and encompasses everything from carrots and parsley to dill, fennel and Queen Anne's lace.
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Turnips
Can harvest throughout the winter when provided with a protective mulch. Produce storage: Store roots unwashed just above freezing at a high humidity (a root cellar is ideal) for several months.
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7 Crops Impossible (Or Pretty Darn Difficult) To Kill
So add one week if starting in July, two if starting in August, et cetera. Maintaining healthy soil and buying your seeds or starts from a reputable source is the best recommendation I can give to avoid disease.
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Philadelphia
Growing Great Rutabagas
Rutabagas should be planted 90 to 110 days before the intended harvest. Cut the greens off entirely, and then move to storage. Baker Creek offers a variety called Purple Top—the greens of which are a backcountry favorite in my part of Kentucky—while...
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When the pots are pretty... too pretty... the roots may be ugly
I used to think that any plant up for sale had been lovingly nurtured.Surely it had led a charmed life in some lovely rural setting, allowed to stretch its roots and thrive. It was potted in an undraining bamboo composite container.
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El Segundo
4 Tips for Growing Market-Worthy Radishes
For Bozelli, that means she's in the garden planting spring-grown radishes every few weeks, beginning in mid-March and continuing until late April, though she says they get excellent results from fall radish sowings, as well.
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Philadelphia
6 White Vegetables You Need To Grow
White vegetables may appear to be lacking pigment and nutrition, but just the opposite is true. They're full of numerous vitamins and other nutrients, even though they aren't full of color.
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When Are Potatoes Ready to Harvest?
Plant three to five seed potatoes in a mound of soil. Garden Rodents: Voles and other rodents can be problematic to growers using straw mulch on their potatoes. If you find teeth marks on your harvested potatoes, you might need to set a few mousetraps...
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Rutabagas: A Humble Vegetable Worth Raving About
How To Grow Rutabagas Thankfully, rutabagas are very easy to grow, but again, they do require a fairly long season of 90 to 100 days to produce an ample root. Rutabagas are also excellent when mashed with carrots or parsnips, and a cooked rutabaga puree...
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Philadelphia
Celeriac: An Underutilized Vegetable
It grows best in temperatures between 55-85 degrees F. Upon questioning the vendor, she explained that it was celeriac, sometimes referred to as celery root. Take the soup off the heat and allow it to cool for a few minutes before transferring to a blender.4
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El Segundo
The Art of Chokes
Artichokes ( Cynara scolymus ) do best where temperatures are consistent year-round because the plants are susceptible to freezing. If grown properly, many secondary buds will also develop and lead to subsequent harvests.
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Philadelphia
Celeriac: The Autumn Vegetable You Should Be Growing
Set them aside in a single layer on a large plate. If celeriac hasn't yet found its way into your garden plot, you're missing some good stuff. It's a staple of my kitchen during the winter months, when so little fresh garden produce makes it to our table.
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Philadelphia