Once your slips are about 8 inches long, you’ll want to carefully remove them from your potato, remove the lower leaves, and place in a jar filled with at least 3 inches of fresh water. Now it’s time to root your slips in water! Put your slips in a warm sunny window, and wait...
Start seeds indoors, transplant seedlings outdoors, provide plenty of light and water, and harvest when the tops start to turn yellow and fall over. With a little care and attention, you can enjoy a bountiful harvest of homegrown onions! You Might Also Like: Seed Starting Indoors Key Takeawa...
However, if you plan on storing a homegrown harvest, you will need to make one special consideration. You need to cure your potatoes before you store them. This process has usually already occurred with store-bought potatoes. After you haveharvested your potatoes, let them remain outside in t...
Homegrown garlic takes up little space and requires little effort to get a good harvest. It's an easy crop to grow, spouting from a garlic bulb separated into cloves, which you plant individually. Certified, disease-free garlic bulbs are sold at garden centres or online. There are two types...
However, homegrown celery is almost always more flavorful than the commercially-grown celery you’d find at a grocery store or produce market. Related articles: Tasty Ways to Cook and Serve Celery Celery Seed Starting Tips How to Plant and Grow Celery How to Harvest and Store Celery Celery ...
These cool-season cropsgrow best when planted in early spring or in late fall, but exactly when depends on multiple factors, including your region. Like regular onions, they need a few months in the garden to develop their bulbs, which they can do over the course of the summer or through...
Some can be mildly inconvenient and easy to prevent, while others can destroy crops and infect soil, leading to chronic crop loss if you don’t have the land available to rotate. If you’re growing your own salad greens for healthy, homegrown salads, it’s a huge disappointment when you ...
The longevity of homegrown squash is one of its most appealing features. Some types keep until spring, allowing you to grow vitamin-rich vegetables all year. They must, however, be cured or seasoned first. After harvesting the squash, put it outside in the sun for 7-10 days to cure. Wa...
Homegrown Herbs: A Complete Guide to Growing, Using, and Enjoying More than 100 Herbs By Tammi Hartung First off we noticed that the book is not just about herbs. But speaking of herbs… Winter Doesn’t Mean Gardening Has to Stop
You carefullyplanted your garlic last fall. You cared for it all spring: watching its water, fertilizing a few times, weeding the patch well. Sometime around July you harvested a bundle of gorgeous bulbs and dutifully hung or laid them somewhere to cure before long term storage…Wait, you ...