A pH ranging from 6.0 to 7.0 is ideal for most garden vegetables. This is the ideal range when microbial activity is greatest, and plant roots can best access nutrients. However, many plants tolerate a wide range, and certain plants have specific pH range preferences.Find a list of common ...
IN THE GARDENJOHN CUSHNIE: Baskets of Fruit and Buckets of Flavour from PlantingByline: IN THE GARDEN BY JOHN CUSHNIE
Everything is loaded in trug buckets and brought up to my flower room, where they will be washed if needed, then bagged and stored in the refrigerator until ready to use. How was your harvest this week?
You can also keep costs down by opting for vintage finds for both effortless style and function. All sorts of items can be reused as containers, think old metal buckets, drainage pipes, bulk food containers, oil cans and more. Just remember to drill drainage holes in the bottom of your ve...
I reached out and found a local baker who was happy to come and harvest many buckets of cherries, and a local brewer/wine maker—Jeff of Urban Forage Winery—who forages yards like mine all over the Twin Cities. He gave me a bottle of wine in exchange for my wine grapes, and I ...
10. DIY Self-Watering Planters for Garden This fancy yet functional self-watering planter arrangement combines two big containers, one that is used as a reservoir and the other for planting. See the article in detailhere! 11. Homemade Sub-Irrigated Planter ...
I served as a judge for the edible crops (vegetables, fruits, herbs) for both in-ground and container trials so I’ll start with the edible winners. Then I’ll also share info on the ornamental winners. You can always find more information, including which seed and plant suppliers/...
There are a lot of cool weather vegetables we can still plant. This is especially true if you can rig up a cold frame over the plants, or small hoop greenhouses. We can even put five gallon buckets over the plants on nights below 40 degrees. This will extend their season ...
If you’ve never grown potatoes before, don’t be intimidated. They’re incredibly easy to grow. You can evengrow them in bucketsorsacks, where they do quite well. Or, if you don’t want to bother with digging them up at the end of the season, trygrowing potatoes above the ground....
For example, you can plant sugar snap peas in early spring and plant pole beans among them. By the time the peas are spent, the beans will be ready to take their place.Succession planting and companion planting and great ways to increase your yield when growing vegetables in a raised bed...