To grow a giant pumpkin, try ‘Dill’s Atlantic Giant’ jumbo variety. Fruit can grow to 200 pounds on 25-foot vines. Plants need 130 to 160 days to mature, so start seedlings indoors, then thin to the best 1 or 2 to plants. Feed heavily and cultivate shallowly. Remove the first tw...
If you choose to fertilize (and many do), make sure it delivers more nitrogen than phosphorus and potassium, as this will encourage leaf and vine growth. However, after flowering begins, use a fertilizer with less nitrogen to instead encourage flowers and fruit. We like to use a seaweed-bas...
Renovate strawberry beds after harvest each year. Remove three-year-old plants making room for more productive younger plants. Also, remove excess young plants; each plant should have about one square foot of space. Removed young plants can be transplanted to another bed. ...
Choose the two best looking seedlings and snip the other ones off with a pair of scissors, leaving two plants per hill or crater. (Not sure what hills and craters are? We’ll get to that a little later, so keep reading!) From Transplants If your growing season is shorter than the nu...
shapes and colors—that littered the field. that pumpkin field was part of robert treat farm, and when he was 13, lippman began working summers there, cultivating his fascination with plants. by the time he graduated from high school in 1996, he had decided to pursue plant breeding an...
But there were simply too many. Eventually, the bugs sucked every last leaf dry and I kissed my pumpkin pie dreams goodbye. Nature loves a vacuum and will fill it with weeds. You can spray your plants with commercial insecticides, but because we keep bees, we don’t use any pesticides...
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I wasn’t exactly good about eating my lettuce last year, after a few weeks of neglect the plants began to flower and eventually created some seeds. At the end of the season I pulled out the plants to dry out a little more and eventually forgot about them for a few months....
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When seedlings inrowsare 2 to 3 inches tall, thin to one plant every 18 to 36 inches by snipping off unwanted plants without disturbing the roots of the remaining ones. When seedlings inhillsare 2 to 3 inches tall, thin to 2 to 3 plants per hill by snipping off unwanted plants without...