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Categories : Vegetables & Fruits
Tips And Hints For Growing Easy-Care Warm-Season Crops Planting months: April, May, June. Spacing: thin to 12 inches apart in rows 5 feet apart or grow in mounds 6 feet apart. Special Tips: large-guage hardware cloth held up by metal fence posts makes good support.Weave plants onto support. Don’t let cukes go dry or they’ll […]
Tips And Hints For Growing Easy-Care Warm-Season Crops Planting months: March through July Spacing: thin plants 8 top 12 iches apart, rows three feet apart.. Special Tips: Grow in block, rather than long, skinny row, plant north of other vegies. Protect seeds with inverted berry basket. Presprout shrivelled type seeds. Isolate super-sweet varieties to prevent […]
Categories : Month by Month Gardening, Vegetables & Fruits
Question from Kenny: We have neglected to delve into the question of just exactly how do the millons if not trillions of short-day and other “Biennial” onion seed get produced each season on purpose. Onion seed is not exactly a storable commodity. Fresh new seed is recommended each and every year. We are so involved […]
Categories : Gardening Tip, Vegetables & Fruits
Information from Dave Rietveld provided by reader Kenneth: You seem to know a lot about the onion set biz. You indeed are right, short-day sets are indeed a well kept secret. One of the reasons they are not readily available for the home gardner is that they lack shelf-life after they are milled. I am […]
Categories : Garden Q & A, Vegetables & Fruits
Tips And Hints For Growing Easy-Care Warm-Season Crops Planting months: Year-round crop Spacing: sow seeds, then thin to 1 to 2 inches apart, rows 14 inches apart. Special Tips: (P. 265 and p. 264 in my book). Fine soil is best. Amend soil well, but too much nitrogen can cause forking. In heavier soil, grow […]
Tips And Hints For Growing Easy-Care Warm-Season Crops Plantingmonths: Year-round. Spacing: Sow seed one inch apart. Rows spaced one to two feet. Thin to four inches. Special Tips: Use hoe handle to make straight row. Cover seeds with one-inch fine compost potting soil and pat down. Harvesting: 55 to 60 days. Best eaten between tiny […]
Growing Artichokes Zone 8 hot & humid
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Question from Steve: Live near the NC/SC border…tropical in Summer hot & humid. Started plants in early Spring..grew nicely, but no buds, then they have sort of stunted, lower leaves died, stopped at about 18″ tall. Thinking of moving into containers from raised beds so I can move them into afternoon shade. Any ideas? Answer […]
Categories : Vegetables & Fruits
Tips And Hints For Growing Easy-Care Warm-Season Crops Planting months: March through July, but early planting beats pests. Spacing: In rows thin to 11/2 inches apart/ pole bean,plant 6, thin to 3. Special Tips: Presprout seeds in heavy clay soils, especially if cold and wet. Or dig furrow, water twice, plant seeds scar side down, […]
Tips And Hints For Growing Easy-Care Warm-Season Crops Planting months: April, May, June. Spacing: sow seed, thin 11/2 inches apart. Special Tips: grows best inland, but not in desert (high temperatures sabotage bean set.) Bush limas give quicker harvest than pole beans. Pole beans can be grown up corn stalks. Presprout seeds to speed harvest. […]
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