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How to Create a Vegetable Garden on a Slope
A terraced vegetable garden stabilized by raw wood follows similar processes, only from the side. You can now play with various bed designs and materials, using your drawing as a planning tool.
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5 Tips for Late Summer Planting Beds
Cool-season Cover Crops Parts of the garden that won't be planted until late spring are prime spots for growing cool-season cover crops , also known as green manures because they are grown to benefit the soil.
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How to Ripen Fruit Faster
If the variety you're growing is heavy cropping, you could continue picking early on in order to maintain a balance between ready-to-eat peppers and those that are lined up and earmarked for consumption over the coming days.
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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 So encouraging these productive staples to carry on cropping for longer is the aim of the game.
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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
Cabbages can be started in pots under cover for an earlier start Their roots prefer firm soil, so prepare seedbeds by treading on the ground in a shuffling motion before raking to a fine tilth for sowing.
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Make the Most of Your Summer Garden
Sit the smaller pot inside the larger pot, levelling up the rims by pouring sand into the base of the big pot till they are even. Avid gardeners are busy gardeners. LED lighting is low cost, versatile and doesn't use much electricity.
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Try Asian Radishes this Fall
Diversify your fall garden with red-skinned Chinese radishes (top), white daikon radishes (right), and watermelon radishes (left) Daikon radishes have long, upright leaves with wavy edges, and some varieties can develop roots more than 12 inches (30cm)...
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3 Ways to Use Up Your Glut
Preserving techniques help to spread out sudden gluts so that summer's bounty can be enjoyed later on in the year when fresh pickings are thin on the ground. Chop the produce up into small cubes about 1cm (0.5in) square.
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Growing Rutabagas for a Bumper Fall Harvest
After the first frost passes, harvest your rutabagas during a period of dry weather. The most stalwart members of the turnip tribe, rutabagas are a rustic cross between wild turnip and cultivated cabbage that came about in Scandinavia, Russia or perhaps...
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Saving Seeds from Beans, Peppers, Onions...And More!
Store them somewhere cool, dry and dark until you're ready to sow in spring. When you come to think about it, saving seed is the ultimate in self-sufficiency. This way you will actively select for those plants that perform the strongest and are best suited...
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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. Branches can quickly die of this disease.
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How to Dry Chili Peppers
The fruits can be picked as soon as the seeds inside have matured, when they will have turned from small and white to full-sized and beige. Fellow GrowVeg blogger Barbara also has a truly scrumptious recipe for chili paste – it comes tried, tested and...
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Help Your Garden Survive a Summer Drought
Shade cloth can cast just enough shade to keep your plants happy in severe heat – and it's easily removed when the weather turns cooler. Two watering cans are better than one! Don't Blast Your Plants A strong spray from a hose can knock plants about...
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Grow Potatoes for a Christmas Crop
Potatoes can be enjoyed immediately, but if you want to have a shot at keeping them until Christmas leave the spuds untouched in containers, keeping the compost barely moist then unearth them when you are ready.
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Growing Fruit: Why Thinning Creates a Better Harvest
But thinning further can help trees to stay in good shape and produce a more useful crop. The main benefit of thinning to the gardener is to give those fruits that remain the space they need to grow into bigger, healthier fruits.
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5 Organic Controls for Greenhouse Whitefly
Begin with a good, strong blast from the hose to knock the whitefly off your plants and onto the ground where they'll perish. Blast all areas of the leaf, especially the undersides where they mostly congregate.
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How to grow: Shallots (Growing Guide)
Harvesting Harvest in early summer when the tops begin to fail, and the bulbs have divided into several plump bulblets. Planting and Harvesting Calendar < Back to All Plants Pests which Affect Shallots Aphids (General) Slug Snail Plant Diseases which...
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How to grow: Cucumber Beetle, Striped (Growing Guide)
You can also coat the fingertips of a yellow rubber glove with petroleum jelly to make it easier to collect any beetles clustered in blossoms. Managing Outbreaks: Striped cucumber beetles are difficult to hand pick because they are small and prone to...
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How to grow: Borage (Growing Guide)
Large plants produce edible, starry blue flowers that attract bees in droves. A fresh crop of plants can be planted in late summer for bloom in the fall. Position A sunny spot where bumblebees and other large pollinators are desired.
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How to grow: Onion Root Maggot (Growing Guide)
Frequently the plant will break off as you pull it from the ground. Tips: Yellow sticky traps or yellow pans of water can be used to monitor and trap onion flies. They lay eggs at the base of onion plants, and the larvae tunnel into onion roots.
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How to grow: Valerian (Growing Guide)
Valerian can stand 5 feet (1.5 meters) tall when it is in full bloom. Spacing Single Plants: 2' 11" (90cm) each way (minimum) Rows: 2' 11" (90cm) with 2' 11" (90cm) row gap (minimum) Sow and Plant Start with a purchased plant, or start seeds indoors and...
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How to grow: Lemon Balm (Growing Guide)
Locate it where leaves can be conveniently picked, crushed and sniffed. Planting and Harvesting Calendar < Back to All Plants Pests which Affect Lemon Balm Aphids (General) Slug Snail
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How to grow: Tulip (Growing Guide)
Harvesting Cut tulips to use as cut flowers just as the buds open. Companions Daylily, Catnip, Bells of Ireland and Salvia. Frost tolerant Excellent. Position Full sun. Feeding Topdress with rich compost in spring, when new growth appears.
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How to grow: Ageratum (Growing Guide)
Dwarf types make good edging plants for beds and containers. Tall varieties often are grown as cut flowers. Spacing Single Plants: 7" (20cm) each way (minimum) Rows: 7" (20cm) with 11" (30cm) row gap (minimum) Sow and Plant Sow tiny ageratum seeds atop...
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How to grow: Tomato (Large) (Growing Guide)
Planting and Harvesting Calendar < Back to All Plants Pests which Affect Tomato (Large) Aphids (General) Colorado Potato Beetle Corn Earworm Flea Beetle Leaf Miner Slug Snail Spider Mite Thrips Tomato Hornworm Plant Diseases which Affect Tomato (Large)...
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How to grow: Parsnip (Growing Guide)
Planting and Harvesting Calendar < Back to All Plants Pests which Affect Parsnip Aphids (General) Carrot Rust Fly Slug Snail Plant Diseases which Affect Parsnip Carrot Powdery Mildew
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