When To Plant Wheat

A solid mass of bright yellow blossoms brightened the red brick planter and wall behind it. They are truly low-maintenance, high performing plants.The butter daisy is known by such common names as butter daisy, star daisy, gold medallion flower, and I'm...

Buckets filled with compost or damp, well-rotted sawdust make fine winter homes for cabbage, Brussels sprouts, and other cabbage cousins that would never survive winter in the open garden.

Intensive cropping using leafy vegetables to stop light from reaching the ground is another efficient way to ‘clean' the soil of weeds. Regularly sharpen your hoe so that the blade slices through weeds like a knife.

Of course, if you have any trees in or near your garden you may find that you have a ready supply. Using them to mulch around established fruit trees and bushes or perennial vegetables is usually fine however.

Then use a measuring tape to estimate the site's rise (elevation gain) and run (distance from front to back). In this way, retaining logs or boards have what you might call a hugelkultur effect.

Deadhead Bed for Flowers and Herbs As you clean up after tired flowers and herbs, you will encounter mature seeds. 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...

Simply pop the fruit(s) into a paper bag then loosely close it at the top. Fellow blogger Barbara Pleasant recommends gathering the first fruits of the season before they are mature, at the ‘breaker' stage when they show the very first hint of color.

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. This is healthier for the tree, unless there is a recurring issue with silver leaf or other diseases.

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Struggling with a summer drought is no fun, and keeping your plants quenched and happy can feel like a non-stop battle. Mulching can keep soil cooler and reduce evaporation How to Apply a Mulch Thoroughly soak the ground before adding your mulch.

Planting Second Crop Potatoes Second-crop potatoes take about three months to reach maturity. Apply an occasional feed of liquid fertilizer ( home-made fertilizers are great for this purpose).

Aim to leave one fruit every couple of inches (5-8cm), or if it's easier, one pair of plums every six inches (15cm). Fewer, bigger fruits are generally more useful than many tiny fruits.

If that all sounds a bit grim, it is. The first frost will put paid to their plans for crop-wide domination but, be warned, in mild areas or in warm greenhouses they can happily remain active throughout the winter.

Keep on Picking to Keep Plants Producing The first rule with any fruit or pod-producing vegetable is to keep up with the picking. Water-stressed plants quickly slow down. In cooler climates, now may be the time to wash off or remove any greenhouse shading,...

With no predators and no existing pests, this creates a gap in your garden's ecosystem for other pests to surge in unchecked, meaning you need to apply ever more pesticides just to keep on top of the problem.

For the healthiest growth they need an open, sunny site and rich soil. Keep the soil moist. Plant your seedlings into prepared ground. Sow the seeds thinly along the row then cover over and water.

Easy DIY Drinks Cooler On hot summer days don't forget to quench your thirst with all manner of smoothies, cordials and lemonades made from garden-grown fruits and herbs. Make the most of late summer's abundance by seeking out imaginative recipes to turn...

The crisp radishes are mild enough to eat raw or cooked, they make a great refrigerator pickles, and sound specimens will keep in the refrigerator for months. Diversify your fall garden with red-skinned Chinese radishes (top), white daikon radishes (right),...

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. You can make chutney from just about anything you have a glut of: beetroot, apples, beans, or...

Rutabaga growth slows as the days become short, and the oldest leaves often shrivel and may be cut away. The roots will push up as they gain size, and garden-grown rutabagas tend to be more top-shaped than round.

This way you will actively select for those plants that perform the strongest and are best suited to the conditions in your garden. Saving Onion & Leek Seeds Onions, leeks and shallots set seed in their second year.

Scarified seeds shouldn't be stored because they can quickly lose the ability to germinate. Be careful to avoid damaging the plant embryo inside the seed – you want to cut just through the seed coat while leaving the plant embryo and other structures...

If the seeds are precious, you can take the trouble of growing the seedlings in auntil the weather is right for them to be planted outside.– If the seeds are as mushy as the seed pods, they have rotted and must be discarded.

The term refers to plants that set viable seed, which finds fertile ground in a zone for which it is hardy and grows anew the next season. Vegetable and fruit seeds germinate fairly near where the parent plant was located.

That's right — give your cuttings a lick just before planting to enhance root productivity.: Just be absolutely sure your plant isn't poisonous first!is a natural killer of fungus and bacteria that can be applied directly to your cutting to protect...

Plantable pots can be made from: peat, manure, rice hulls, paper, coconut coir, bioplastic, wood fiber, and straw. Plantable pots can also help stabilize substrate temperature, which reduces the chance to root injury especially in the southeastern region...

(93 C.) oven for 30 minutes.and garden tools in a mixture of one part bleach to 10 parts water.and be careful not to plant the seeds too deep. Seedlings in plastic trays tend to be more resistant.Don't plant too thickly.