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Rhubarb Planting Time
Plant rhubarb in late winter or early spring. Rhubarb is a perennial so choose a spot where it can grow and thrive for up to 10 years. Three or four root crowns will produce all of the rhubarb you can...
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Herbs for Cool Season Growing
Italian parsley Herbs well suited for growing in cool weather are cilantro, chervil, chives, dill, and parsley. Unlike warm-weather summer-grown herbs, cool-weather herbs can be sown directly in the...
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Tomato Planting: Easy Steps to a Bumper Crops
Tomato seedling in cage A bumper tomato crop comes with early season planning. Getting tomatoes off to a strong start will almost guarantee a great yield next summer. Here are 10 easy steps to an...
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Peppers Planting: Easy Steps to a Bumper Crops
To get a bumper crop from your pepper plants, you must dedicate yourself to helping the plants thrive. Pepper plants are more temperamental than tomatoes—they demand warm temperatures, even soil...
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Tomatoes to Grow for Flavor and Their Uses
Flavor is the best reason to grow tomatoes in the home vegetable garden. (You can always find tomatoes without much flavor at the grocery store.) Choose flavor first when deciding which tomatoes to...
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Vegetable Crops for Beginning Gardeners
Celebrity tomato, AAS Winner Beginning vegetable gardeners can be easily intimidated by the scores and scores of vegetable seed varieties available from even the smallest seed retailer. In reality,...
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Melon, Squash, and Cucumber Growing Success Tips
Summer squash growing in hothouse Melons, squash, and cucumbers grow best where the summer is hot, dry, and almost always sunny. The best flavored of these gourd family (Cucurbitaceae) crops will come...
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Growing Tomatoes on Stakes
Tomato plants trained to single stakes Grow tomatoes on stakes to ripen fruits earlier than unstaked plants. Grow tomatoes on stakes to keep fruit cleaner and easier to spot at harvest. You can grow...
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Start a Fall Vegetable Garden
Mid to late summer is the time to plan and plant the fall vegetable garden. The key to planting vegetables in mid- to late- summer is timing. Plant the late summer and autumn vegetable garden so that...
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Peppers, Melons, Eggplants—Hate the Cold
Pepper seedling Cool days and nights can be a problem for tender warm-season crops such peppers, melons, and eggplants. Temperatures in the 40sF won’t kill these plants but their growth will be...
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Choosing Cabbage to Grow
Fall planted cabbage can withstand snow The leaves of savoy cabbage (crinkled leaves) are more pliable than smooth cabbage. They are sweet and mild flavored, easy to separate, and great to stuff and...
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Containers for Container Gardens
Containers for container gardens can be terracotta, wood, plastic, or metal. Choose the style that best fits your patio, balcony, or roof terrace. The larger the container the less watering and...
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Balcony and Rooftop Vegetable Garden Basics
A balcony or rooftop garden has advantages and challenges. Enough sun is commonly not a problem for rooftops but might be for balconies. Snails and slugs and many other creeping insects or pests are...
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Best Times to Grow Vegetables in Containers
Success growing vegetables is all about timing—in the garden or in containers. Temperature has much to do with success growing in containers. Root vegetables are cool-season crops. Leaf and stem crops...
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Care and Feeding Vegetables in Containers
Vegetables growing in containers on patios, balconies, or roof tops require special care when it comes to watering and feeding. Containers have a limited capacity for storing essential nutrients and...
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Soybean Growing Tips
The vegetable soybean (not the field soybean) can be used like green peas or lima beans or can be dried and used like navy beans or can be sprouted like Mung beans. Soybeans are the lowest-starch,...
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How to Grow Tomatillos
The tomatillo is not a tomato but related to the tomato. Its fruit is used to make sauces and salads and is very popular in Mexican and Southwestern cuisine. The tomatillo has a sweet sharp flavor...
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How to Grow Bitter Melon
Bitter melon is a favorite in Asian and Southeast Asian cooking. It can be stuffed with pork or shrimp and steamed or pickled or curried and served with meat or in soup. Bitter melons are—as their name...
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How to Grow Parsley
Flat leaf parsley Parsley is a favorite of most Western cooks—used for its clean, fresh taste in sauces, salads, stuffings, and omelettes. It’s commonly added at the end of cooking for its fresh...
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Sowing: Sow cabbage seeds in late winter or early spring for an early summer crop or in midsummer for a fall crop. In mild-winter regions, sow cabbage from fall to late winter for a spring crop. Sow...
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