Many home gardeners have grown their own sweet corn before, but have you ever thought of growing your own popcorn, or your own dent corn for grits or cornmeal? Depending on how much garden space you’re working with, all the different types of corn can be worth growing in your backyard...
beans, and squash, three crops that work together to make each other more productive. The corn provides a trellis for the beans, while the squash vines ramble along the ground shading out weeds, and the beans fix nitrogen, providing fertility...
I went toPortland Nurseryto “price out” grow lights and ended up just buying one 4-foot light there on the spot instead. I picked up the little trays and domes as well, but I hated to spend even more money on the pots. The folks over atYou Grow Girlhad posted somecool gift ideas...
Pole beans require some form of support whether it’s a trellis, a fence, or a corn stalk. They can vary in height from six to 20 feet depending on the variety. Pole beans will mature over time as they continue to grow and set flowers and pods. Pole beans are preferred for green be...
The temperate zones are also the areas of thegrasses—the finest lawns particularly are in the regions of moderate or high rainfall—and of the greatcereal crops.Riceis excluded as being tropical, butwheat,barley,corn(maize), andryegrow well in the temperate zones. ...
In this latter respect, some chitosan-based seed treatments have shown promising results as an organic alternative to control seedling blight and foot rot diseases caused by Fusarium species in wheat and barley [7,42,43]. 4.2. Disease Tolerance and Escape in Relation to Crop Traits Adequate ...