Even if you do not have the space for an outdoor garden, you can grow potatoes in a wooden barrel or a metal or plastic trash can that contains six inches of soil topped with sawdust. The larger your container is, the more potatoes you can grow inside of it. Start by drilling … [Read more...]
How to Grow Microgreens: A Beginner’s 101 Guide
Not eating--or growing--microgreens yet? Then you’re missing out on a seriously easy way to increase your nutrient intake. Researchers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the University of Maryland found that leaves from microgreens had more nutrients than the mature … [Read more...]
Can you eat broccoli when it starts to flower?
If you missed out on harvesting your broccoli at the tight bud stage, all is not lost. Even with the bright yellow flowers open, you can still harvest your broccoli. Broccoli plants are made to flower and produce seeds. The perfect time to harvest broccoli heads is when the heads … [Read more...]
7 Unusual and Tasty Hybrid, Crossbred Vegetables to Grow
By Erin Marissa Russell and Matt Gibson Gardeners have a long history of creating hybrid vegetable varieties that allow them to produce vegetables that share the strengths of both their parents through crossbreeding. Some of those hybrids come from two completely different … [Read more...]
How do you prune beets?
Thin beet seedlings when they are three inches tall by removing the entire portion of the seedling that is above the ground. Even if you don’t like eating beet greens, you still need to prune your beet plants in order to keep the leafy older plants from pushing their way into … [Read more...]
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