Krone Big Square Baler

Start seeds indoors under lights four to six weeks before transplanting. Soil requirements: Well-drained soil, rich in organic matter. Sunlight requirements: Full sun (A minimum of six to eight hours per day is ideal.) Water requirements: A minimum of...

Dice the last zucchini or yellow squash, tip and cut up the last green or wax beans , dice the new potatoes into small-ish cubes so they cook evenly. Throw them in the soup pot. Minestrone is not for purists.

We are growing both standard, Straight Eight, green-type cukes and the smaller but tastier lemon cucumbers. I think the flowers didn't get pollinated completely and so the fruits develop crookedly.) With all this production, we have way too many cucumbers...

Place the pot in a well-lit location and keep the potting mix slightly moist until germination. Sprinkle the fertilizer in a circle around the plant to ensure it reaches the root zone, then water well.Pruning Big Bend yucca plants is a matter of personal...

The flowers are approximately 4 inches in diameter and bloom in the spring. They can also make excellent choices for cut flowers and centerpiece bouquets and work well in window boxes and planters.The amaryllis (Amaryllis belladonna) is an ornamental...

Firsthand Advice Focus. It's tempting to have your fingers in all the honey pots at once. “They are smarter and have far more personality than sheep,” Conrad says. It surely isn't the easy way to do things, but it's the only way in our minds.

If they are properly cared for, azaleas can grow for up to several hundred years.Gardening books and catalogs frequently list the top height that the shrub will reach in 10 years. The U.S. National Arboretum suggests transplanting in the early spring...

Few garden perennials offer such decorative foliage and striking flower displays. Dentata 'Desdemona' and L. Palmatiloba, P. If large imposing perennials are your thing, then you must grow Ligularia.

I even promised that I would keep it cut short so that it didn't hang over the rock wall. In the first century the Greek physician Dioscorides taught that its leaf tea was a remedy for sciatica.

Tender new growth is more vulnerable to a late cold snap, which can easily kill a plant that otherwise would have survived the winter.In fact, consistent cold and an insulating snow cover are the best things that your marginal plants could hope for.

I had to get rid of these!It was a frustrating task since, despite their vivid coloring, the caterpillars managed to hide very effectively in the dense foliage, so in order to see them properly we got out the secateurs and started clipping off leaves.

The nymphs go through several instars before becoming adults. Nymphs are predators too, and their appearance mimics the adult, except they are wingless, smaller and have darker spots and coloring.

In 1940, Leubben sold his rights to Allis-Chalmers, who redeveloped his early concept and in 1947, released their own Roto-Baler. In 1903, Ummo F. New Holland began marketing the wildly popular design in 1940.

Now, I look at the 5-foot-tall bay laurel ( Laurus nobilis ) in my tiny front yard, and I'm glad to know it will never get that big. Perhaps one day, I can talk them into growing a bay laurel grotto for me.

Grafting them on to a green cactus as a seedling allows them to share food with the green cactus below.The understocks of moon cacti are usually either from pitaya (Hylocereus spp.) or blue myrtle cactus (Myrtillocactus geometrizans), both dark green...

Lemon trees reach an impressive height for a cold hardy tree. Lemon fruits, when fully ripe, are oval, with a nipple apex on both ends and usually 2 3/4 to 4 3/4 inches long.The lemon tree's root system depends on how the tree was planted.

It is easy to imagine more of them coming in the distance, too far away to see.This exhibit is hidden off the trail in a stand of trees, so that it presents a slightly ominous appearance, as if the web were woven between the trunks.

Reproduction (that's what it's all about, not the Hokey Pokey) is only succesful with those generations that effectively reproduce. A mistake in copying all those atoms and putting them in just the right place (called a transcription error) sometimes...

Native trees are typically easy to maintain, especially if you cultivate one that grows naturally in your area. Texensis "Texas White") has white flowers and thick glossy leaves."Oklahoma" (Cercis canadensis var.

I gather almost 10 pounds of green beans from the 10 hills I sow. One interesting thing I've recently learned about is that onions and garlic don't do well together, so I'll need to plant the garlic elsewhere than close to the onions.I also plant potatoes...

Mexican limes reach about 2 inches in diameter while Tahiti limes grow another 1/2 to 2/3 inch beyond this size. Fertilize three times per year, with an annual total application of 1 cup of ammonium sulfate per year of age.

This can lead to failing shrubs or damage to the roots, which can kill the whole plant.Because the roots of the plant cannot dig in very deeply to the soil, the boxwood is susceptible to problems from the surrounding environment, such as excessive heating...

They are low in calories. They are high in energy and water content. Once onion bulbs begin to swell (in late spring), ensure that they remain above ground. Common onion info tells us that it is often easier growing big onions from plants than from seed.Help,...

Bundle up because the temps are quite nippy, plus you'll find a strong breeze in those mountain canyons as well. So let's start exploring . I'm guessing more than a foot in the valley there (see picture at right).

And there were a number of surprises, too.Aeoniums to me were a bit of a surprise, showing very typical radial symmetry and leaf growth of a monocot, and roots that did not appear to have much in the way of a central radical or tap root (right).But their...

However, if you want to harvest the greens, they are best when they are small and tender, from 2-3 inches to about 4-5 inches. They also tend to be sweeter than the red cultivars. How tall do beet plants grow?are cool season veggies grown for both their...

This story originally appeared in the November/December 2017 issue of Hobby Farms. Check UTV Drive Belt: Many UTVs are belt-driven, and this belt should be examined and replaced as needed.