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By now all of you Florida gardeners should have your seeds started. If you don’t, there are plenty of seed starting systems available, and it’s not too late to plant your seeds. If you get them started this week, You’ll be able to move them into your outside beds in mid-October, at 6 weeks old. Gardener’s [...] For all of us South Florida gardeners, August is the month to start our seeds, so July is the time to make the plans for our gardens. Utilizing square foot gardening principles, I’ve found that I can cram a LOT of vegetables into a small space. One year I started over 200 seedlings and still [...]
There are plenty of vegetables that you can direct sow the seeds in your garden. Carrots, radishes, beets, corn, beans, peas and lettuces all are sown directly into the garden bed. I now like to pre-treat the areas I’ll be directly sowing seeds into with BiotaMax. This ensures that the first roots the seedling [...] It’s Monday. A new week begins. For those of you in the Midwest, Eastern US and other Zones 6 – 8 areas, now’s the time to get over to the local nurseries to see what plants they have. Don’t just look for flowers for the yard. Delve into the vegetable section and see what healthy [...]
Root vegetables like beets, turnips, carrots, parsnips, onions, rutabagas, and radishes are easy to grow in raised beds or containers, and if you love them like I do, they’re very rewarding crops. What most novice gardeners don’t think through before planting their root veggie seeds is that they need a good depth of loose, [...] Hot peppers hail from Mexico, and the closer you can mimic that climate the more successful you’ll be at growing them. They like lots of sun and hot, dry weather. Start them in the spring 12 weeks before the last frost if you’re living above zone 10. Here in Florida they do best during the [...] There are two types of Swiss chard, green chard with light green stems and veins and ruffly dark green dimpled leaves, and brightly colored chard with stems and veins of yellow, orange, magenta, purple and red with dark green leaves. Both look the same when stripped of the stems and cooked. Chard is a relative [...] I have seen these for years at many gardening sites and in all the catalogues, and I must admit I’ve always been intrigued by them. This product is called a tomato automator. Here’s what Gardener’s Supply has to say about it: These deceptively simple tomato plant surrounds will produce healthier, more productive tomato plants with less [...] Beefsteak tomatoes ripening on the vine. Today Rick and I planted several more tomato plants. I am not satisfied with the large tomatoes I’m getting so far this season. They’re delicious, but far too few for me. Some kind of disease killed two of the three beefsteak tomato plants I had, and the resulting harvest [...] Two days ago I received my order of tomato plants from Gardener’s Supply. I purchased two of their tomato grow bags to test them along with their container mix and organic tomato fertilizer. The plants arrived separately, shipped directly from the grower. The box they arrived in was a 12″ x 12″ x 12″ cube. [...] |
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