This is a guide about planting tomatoes. Following some helpful tips when planting your tomato plants can help ensure a better harvest.
Growing Tomatoes Next to Blueberries
Can tomatoes be planted next to blueberries?
Here's a great video with instructions for making a garden braid.
This is a guide about how to make a garlic braid. If you grow and use a lot of garlic in your cooking, making a garlic braid is a fun and practical way to store your harvest.
Use Washer for Cleaning Vegetables
We put in a lot of potatoes,and carrots so when it comes time for cleaning, it is a lot of work. A friend of mine told me to put them in the washer in cold water, no detergents of course.
Identifying Male and Female Flowers on Zucchini and Cuke Plants
How do I know the difference between a male and a female zucchini and cucumber plant?
My zucchini plants look beautiful and have large green leaves. They were grown from seeds (which were planted 1-16-12). There are beautiful large blooms, but no zucchinis yet. What is the problem?
Do you plant the seed part of the rhubarb to make new plants, or is that bad?
Shopping for a Passion Fruit Vine
I live in Geraldton, and while it is a great place to live, sourcing something as specific as a "passion fruit vine" is rather difficult to accomplish. I have been searching, surfing the web, in order to find a seller of passion fruit vines here in Western Australia, but as yet have had no joy.
Our rhubarb plant has "gone to seed"; do we cut this off or leave it as it is? The rhubarb was growing fine then all of a sudden it grew this huge globe shaped head on one of the stalks. It burst open and, hey presto, seeds.
I am growing stevia in the tropics. I want to know how stevia is harvested and when it should be harvested? Our stevia has a great problem, in that it flowers frequently before it has matured. How can I solve this problem or what is the cause of this issue?
I live in central Louisiana and my yellow squash are rotting from the blossom end at very early age. What could be the cause?
I need planting info on Fordhook Lima beans.
This is a guide about growing passion fruit. Growing passion fruit can be quite easy if you live in an area with the right climatic conditions.
If rhubarb gets frozen a little in the ground in the early spring, is it ruined in any way?
I always have wrinkly old potatoes left over from my winter "load-up" in the fall. I plant them in the garden, cutting them in pieces and making sure that each piece has one or two "eyes". I plant them 6 inches deep with the eyes facing up.
Tomato Plants Stopped Blooming
When I planted my tomatoes it had blooms. There are 1 or 2 big green tomatoes on the plants. They stopped blooming and where the bloom should be, they've turned a blackish color. The tomatoes that are on the plants look great and are growing everyday, just no new blooms.
Growing Tortarello Chiaro Cucumbers
I brought back the above seeds from Crete. I now have healthy plants. Can I grow them outdoors along the ground?
I have tried several inexpensive ways to grow micro greens and none are very good. Dirt is the worst, as it clings to the plants and is very hard to get them clean. Vermiculite didn't seem to work very well for me.
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Three Keys To Success With Blueberries
Planting several blueberry bushes is a wonderful way to incorporate edible ornamentals into your landscape. The fruits are delicious to eat and contain a broad range of health benefits, and the plant's foliage provides a great source of fall color.
Community Supported Agriculture (CSAs): A Gardening Alternative
Would you love to enjoy the benefits of a backyard vegetable garden but don't have enough time or space to grow your own food? If so, you may want to consider buying a share in a Community Supported Agriculture farm (CSA).
Although most often thought of as a food for the holidays, sweet potatoes are becoming more and more popular as a garden crop. And why not? This warm season crop is easy-to-grow, contains a high amount of vitamins and a relatively low amount of calories, and tastes delicious!
If you use a lot of garlic for cooking, making garlic braids to hang in your kitchen is a fun and functional way to store your harvest. Braiding not only makes the bulbs look attractive, it also provides each bulb with good air circulation, which prolongs storage.
