Keep the garden free of weeds which will compete with carrots for nutrients and moisture. Don’t grow carrots where you grew potatoes, beets, parsnips, celery, eggplants, tomatoes, or peppers the year before. It is best to plant directly in the garden where they will grow. Carrots started...
Choose a sunny spot with well-draining soil. Sweet potatoes aren’t too picky, but they do prefer soil on the sandier side. They need plenty of air space in the soil for roots to reach down. Consider growing in raised beds if your soil is clay, rocky, or compacted. Add compost, perl...
How to Grow Sweet Potatoes: Planting Slips & Harvesting Tips Planting Beets should ideally receive at least 6 hours of direct sunlight per day. While they grow best in well-prepared, fertile soil, they tolerate average to low soil fertility. This root vegetable willNOTtolerate acidic soils (pH...
In the North, cover the raised rows with black plastic to keep the soil warm and promote strong growth. It's best to plant root sprouts, called slips, available at nurseries and mail-order suppliers (store-bought sweet potatoes are often waxed to prevent sprouting). Save a few roots from...
In the North, cover the raised rows with black plastic to keep the soil warm and promote strong growth. It's best to plant root sprouts, called slips, available at nurseries and mail-order suppliers (store-bought sweet potatoes are often waxed to prevent sprouting). Save a few roots from...
Pull weeds by hand or cultivate shallowly to avoid disturbing roots. Eventually, the foliage of the maturing sweet potato plant will shade out new weeds. If wet weather hits your garden during the summer growing season, gently lift sweet potato vines after each good rain. Sweet potatoes will ...
plants. This is because tomatoes need plenty of food from the soil, as well as sunlight to ripen fruit, and good air movement to help prevent disease. Avoid planting potatoes close to tomatoes, because both plants suffer from late blight disease, and one could transfer infection to the other...
Crops like potatoes and tomatoes can get the same blights, while corn and tomatoes are especially tasty to the same worms.” John Harrison | Espoma Share 2. Asparagus One of the first crops to be harvested in spring, asparagus is a vitamin-rich, robust plant that can tolerate both cold ...
Check out the video to see how to plant cassava. Step 1: Harvesting Cassava Dig up the roots about 1 year after planting and enjoy! One of the coolest things about this food crop is that it has a very flexible harvest time. If you need to wait a couple of months to finish eating ...
While you can try planting from grocery store potatoes, these commercial potatoes may have been sprayed with chemicals to keep them from sprouting in storage, so growth may be stunted and your yields lower or dismal. Trust us: It’s best to use seed potatoes. When to Plant Potatoes Potatoes...