There are basically two ways you can grow onions in your vegetable garden - starting them from seed or planting onion sets.Think of onion sets as transplants.Often the term "sets" is used for any onion bulb that is ready for planting.These sets can be just the small bulb of the onion plant, or it can be complete immature onion plants.Planting onion sets is pretty straightforward and simple enough.Here's how to plant onion … [Read more...]
I know what you are probably thinking as soon as you read the title of this article. It was probably something like, "Tee, peas are supposed to be sowed directly into the garden, and do not do well when transplanted!".I know, I know.I've said that myself to many people who have asked me about growing peas over the years. Even recently, someone asked me about transplanting peas on the Veggie Gardener Facebook Page, and I was pretty much … [Read more...]
Earth Day is a special day where we take some time to do things to help our planet, like reducing our carbon footprint and recycling.Vegetable gardeners can do quite a lot of things to help save the planet we live in from pollution and greenhouse gases. Just planting a vegetable garden to begin with goes a long way towards reducing our overall carbon footprint.So let's spend some time outdoors today to celebrate our planet and enjoy what … [Read more...]
One thing that will really rev up a compost pile is boosting it with a compost activator. A compost activator adds nitrogen which gives all those microbes something to work on, thus creating heat. It's this heat that really gets the compost pile pumping out fresh humus.Although these microbes are found naturally in soil they may sometimes need a boost to really get the compost pile fired up.There could also be a condition where there … [Read more...]
Although sowing seeds is a fairly easy thing to do, trying to sow very tiny seeds, like carrots, turnips, lettuce, or kohlrabi, can sometimes be a pain in the patoot. It seems like some seeds always end up getting spilled all over the place, or too many get sowed in one spot.There's always the choice to create an easy seed tape for those tiny seeds, but there are moments there isn't much time for that if they aren't made in advance.Trying … [Read more...]
One of the most frustrating things about starting vegetables from seed is when they just don't seem to ever sprout.You sow the seeds and wait for days and days for the little sprout to emerge, but... it never does.You then scramble to sow more seeds because you have now lost a week and still don't have any seedlings. You wait for days and days, yet again, no seedlings.Self-doubt starts to creep in. Your confidence in what you are … [Read more...]
Late and early blights are two of the most common diseases that infect tomatoes grown by home gardeners. It spreads very rapidly in ideal conditions and is difficult to treat against. The worst part about blight is by the time you realize the tomato plant is infected it is usually too late.The number of blight cases rose dramatically during a sudden outbreak in the northeastern part of the U.S. in 2009, causing many vegetable gardeners to … [Read more...]
Companion planting has become more popular in recent years because it helps to maximize available garden space and provides a sustainable environment for better crop production.The truth is companion planting methods have been around for a very long time. In fact, the Native Americans might be some of the earliest known gardeners to use companion planting.They used a planting technique called "The Three Sisters Method".Companion … [Read more...]
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