"Christine,come and help me in the garden.I want to plant all of the seeds today." My father was calling to me. "I'm busy..." I said.I didn't understand why working in the dirt excited him so much. By the end of April,his plants had come up in neat rows.Unfortunately,in ea...
“It may be possible to extract some nutrients for plant growth from the lunar regolith (the lunar soil)”, says Simonsen. “But these are somewhat meagre. Urine can provide nitrogen, potassium and phosphorous. If you are cultivating salad plants, you can also grow other edible plants that c...
There’s nothing quite like radishes to spice up your salad with their peppery bite. Plant radish seeds 2 weeks before the latest average date for frost. They can go directly into the vegetablegarden, at a depth of ½ to 1 inch. While radish plants do best in cool weather – and can...
satisfied with the produce at the grocery store again.While we have to wait until after Mothers Day to plant many vegetables, there are several varieties that thrive in cool spring weather.Get ready to plantIf you are planting in the ground, make sure the soil is dry enough to be worked....
This is a wild relative of the salad rocket. It’s a much smaller plants with more narrow leaves. Even if this plant bolts, you can simply cut it back to about 5cm above ground and it will re- grow again.Soil and site:Rocket does well in any reasonably fertile soil....
herb,herbaceous plant- a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests genus Poterium,Poterium- a genus of thorny herbs or shrubs of the family Rosaceae ...
Land cress or American cress:A tasty watercress substitute, ready to eat in 7 to 8 weeks. Rocket:An easy to grow, fast-maturing salad. Late summer sowings will continue cropping into the winter if the plants are protected by cloches. ...
Between plants: 20cm (5 plants per station)Plant care:It is essential to keep the plot completely weed free and watered regularly.Harvesting:You can either harvest individual leaves as required or use the cut and come again method: cut the whole plant at about 5cm height from the soil level...
For successive planting like this, just start a new row or area every week or two to allow time to consume the crops as they are ready. It’s estimated that you can cut 1-2 pounds of salad greens at each cutting if all the plants are ready at one time. That’s a lot of salad!
Once you get your soil into the container, water until it’s moist, not soggy. Now you’re ready to plant. Scatter the seeds on the surface—lettuce seeds do not like to be buried. You can plant the seeds close together—you’re not growing them into full-size plants but using indivi...