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How to Grow Radishes
If you are new to gardening, radishes might be one of the first vegetables you should try to grow. They are typically not very difficult to grow. They mature and are ready to be harvested in a short amount of time. They are often easy to keep healthy even when facing various weather and soil condition. In fact, you can actually plant them up to six weeks before the last frost of the winter.They can be grown in containers as long as the growing pot is about 12 inches in depth. You can also grow them within raised ...
What Does Organic Gardening Mean?
Indeed, what is organic gardening? Chemically, organic matter is matter with carbon atoms in it-naturally occurring materials. The term "synthetic" refers to any material that is produced in a laboratory, rather than in a living thing. "Organic Gardening" literally means not using synthetically produced items in the garden. The USDA has specific definitions for organic products, commercially grown, but there is no definition of "organic" for home gardeners. The entire issue is fairly murky-with many people saying that "industrially produced" organic food items are no more healthy for the environment than other commercially produced items.At the heart of the organic ...
Growing Tomatoes Indoors – Tomatoes For All Seasons
A lot of people love the idea to grow tomatoes in their garden or backyard. But, there are others who are not capable of doing it because of two factors which are the weather and space. In order to address this problem, they should have the knowledge about growing tomatoes indoors. Growing tomatoes indoors provide you with the advantage of growing and harvesting tomatoes all throughout the year. It does not care no matter how good or bad your geographical location or weather is. It also does not really require a very wide amount of space. Now, the question is, ...
Growing Carrots – Light, Water and Nutrient Needs
Just as in the local grocery store, carrots range from long, slender and tapered to short, stubby and almost beet-shaped carrots. When you think of all the sizes, carrots are amongst the most versatile home vegetables to grow and you can take your pick of the varieties of seeds – just polish up your green thumb if you can.
Whether you know this or not, or for that matter, if you do know this small fact, whether you want to admit it or not, carrots grow best in rock-free, well-drained soil. I usually work about a 3 inch layer of organic matter (compost) into the soil. Please never use manure – too much nitrogen can cause misshapen or forked carrots.
If you want sweeter carrots, work a thin layer of wood ash into the soil – this adds potassium which then makes the carrots sweeter.
Green Beans – The Best Green Beans to Grow For Canning
I have quite a bit of experience when it comes to growing green beans. I’ve been gardening for more than 30 years. Over the years, I’ve tried growing many different varieties of green beans. Since I like canning beans to store in my cellar, I’ve narrowed my favorites to the ones that taste the best after being put through the canning process. You might think green beans are all the same, but they all have differences.
Organic Gardening Tips – 3 Tips to Prepare For Starters
The amount of organic gardens is growing rapidly. This simply means a more healthy and environment-friendly world. If you would like to have your own organic garden, here are some helpful organic gardening tips to prepare yourself:
Organic Gardening Tip #1: Choosing Your Crops
There are many crops available at markets and groceries stores. An advice would be not to pick any that you like but choose properly based on your climate and site condition. I can’t emphasize in words the importance of this.
As a beginner, start with vegetables and beans then move onto other seeds.
Organic Gardening Tip #2: Preparing Proper Containers
Growing Spinach Indoors Or in Containers to Add Character to Your Landscape
Growing spinach indoors or as an accent to your landscape in containers can be a very rewarding experience. Companion planting in containers with eggplant and lettuce is a unique way to add character to a porch or patio.
Spinach is a crop that can be easily added to your landscape design. It is an easy crop to grow and can be used as an accent among other plants in your landscape gardens or as a companion plant in a vegetable garden.
Being a crop that likes cool temperatures, it is an excellent choice to be planted in flower beds before the temperature in your area are warm enough to flowers, or at the end of the growing season for a late crop. Keep window boxes, containers and raised beds growing late into the season. They are all ideal locations to grow an early or late season, healthy and thriving crop.
Spinach varieties can have there own unique characteristics, from flat leaf, semi-savoyed, heavy savoyed and even the strawberry spinach that produces a strawberry like shaped fruit on leafy stems above the rosette of leaves. It is a very unique variety of spinach that can add character to any type of garden or be used as a border along walkways.
Growing Squash and Pumpkins in the South
If you want the Great Pumpkin to appear in your pumpkin patch on Halloween you must to plant pumpkin and squash vines in the summer. Pumpkins and squash are related, as both are members of the Cucurbita species. They are native to the Americas, and are well adapted to soils and weather in Texas and throughout much of the south.
If you want to grow pumpkins and squash in your garden, you first have to understand the differences as well as the similarities in the different kinds of squash and pumpkins. Pumpkins are used, when ripe, as a table vegetable or in pies. The seeds may also be roasted and eaten as a snack. Summer squash are used when immature as a table vegetable. They are thin skinned and do not store well. If allowed to grow too big, they become tough and inedible. Winter squash are used, when ripe, as a table vegetable or in pies. Since the flesh is usually fine-grained and of a mild flavor, they can be eaten baked. The skin of most winter squash is thick and they store well.
Pumpkins and squash do not germinate until the soil is at least 68 degrees F for four inches down. In the summer, this is not a problem. In the south, pumpkins are planted between June 15 and July 15. You can plant them later, but you run the risk of a frost damaging the vegetable before it is ripe. Summer squash is planted in the first three weeks of August, while winter squash should be planted during July and the first two weeks of August. Transplants of squash and pumpkins can help you catch up if you have missed the seed planting dates, and are available from many nurseries.
Grow Basil at Home
It is just very easy and simple to grow Basil at home. As long as your environment has enough sunlight and the level of temperature is good, you can grow your favorite herb at home. The Basil herb is one of the most popular herbs because of its tasty and fragrant leaves. When raw, you can add it to salads and sandwiches. Basil can also be used in cooking your favorite pasta sauce and other cooked dishes.
If you are going to grow Basil herb using pots, you must ensure that your pot bases have pretty good drainage and if needed, you could place coarse grave underneath it. However, if you are going to grow basil at your garden outside, make sure that the compost or soil where you will plant it is moisten. If not, you must first water it profusely before sowing to successfully grow basil.
Organic in the Garden – Growing Carrots in Your Home Garden
Carrots are amongst the most popular vegetables to grow in the organic home vegetable garden. Carrots are perhaps so popular because of how easy they are to grow and the versatility they provide in the kitchen. Carrots can be used for Juicing, Boiling, Steaming, In Casseroles, Stews and Soups, Grated in Cakes, rissoles, on sandwiches, in salads or simply on their own as delicious carrot sticks.
Tips For Growing Lettuce in the Garden
There’s nothing better than a salad made with fresh lettuce from the garden. Adding lettuce to your garden can be a welcome addition. Not only is healthy and tasty to eat but it needs very little space to grow. But there are some guidelines you should know before planting lettuce.
To grow lettuce or any other vegetable, you need to have good soil. For lettuce, keep the nitrogen level high by using 30-10-10 NPK (nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium) fertilizer. This will provide the lettuce with the nutrition it needs to produce healthy leaves.
When planting lettuce seeds make sure they are planted 1/8-3/8 inch deep, separated by 6-12 inches (2-3.5 m) from the next plant. Romaine lettuce can be planted closer together but other crisp lettuce need more space. If you plant in rows, keep the rows separated by about 20 inches (6m).
The roots of lettuce do not grow very deep so it is important to weed often. Many other grasses and plants with deeper root growth can invade the lettuce.
How to Grow Spinach -Top Tips For Success
Leafy chard, spinach and spinach beet are easy to grow, tasty and full of goodness. They can all can be grown in cool conditions, and are packed with vitamins, minerals and iron. Leafy vegetables always taste better freshly picked from the garden, and spinach varieties are ones that will not disappoint.
Which Varieties To Grow
There are a number of types of spinach, savoy, baby, semi- savoy, and smooth leaf. More commonly though, they are classified by the time of year they are grown ie spring, summer and winter. One of the easiest varieties to grow is Perpetual Spinach. This can be harvested for many months on, sown from April to July, its a good one to start with. Summer spinach should be sown in spring, and winter spinach sown in autumn for later crops during the winter. Here’s five varieties to try