I've come across the term while browsing for tomato seeds, but I'm not exactly sure what it means. Could you please explain? - Sarah B. Gardening Channel Replies: F1 tomatoes, or more broadly, F1 hybrids, refer to a specific category of hybrid …[Read more...] ...
Part 1: Digging Into the Basics of Vegetable Gardening 5 Chapter 1: Vegetable Gardening 1017 Having a Garden: Yes or No 7 Planning a Veggie Garden 8 Growing a Cornucopia of Vegetables 9 Tomatoes 9 Peppers and eggplants 9 Carrots, onions, and potatoes 10 ...
For containers, you can use almost anything that holds soil—from fabric grow bags to old metal wash buckets—as long as you provide good drainage, says Bellamy. Remember that container plants need more water than those in the ground, it’s best not to let them completely dry out. Also ...
When I am not in the garden (I don’t sleep there!) or fussing over seedlings I still busk, cook, sketch, etc. I recently left the plants to Johnny’s care and some fortuitously-timed rain and went for a long weekend in the lower elevations of the Sierra Nevada. The event was cal...
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If you use an overhead watering method such as a sprinkler or buckets to water your lawn or garden, morning temperatures tend to be cooler and before the sun heats the soil up further, helping reduce risks of fungal disease and conserving soil moisture. Doing so can also reduce risk. ...
Used paint tubs, broken buckets and small spaces were used. Creepers were made to climb on roofs, walls, trees. Green cover increased to > 8 acres in 2021. The practice saves valuable family resources particularly in COVID-19 distress through provision of vegetables for family consumption. ...
Vegetable gardens require regular watering in order to stay healthy, so it is best to situate it near a source of freshwater so as to not have to drag out and carry buckets for miles. Drip irrigation or other delivery systems may help minimize runoff and reduce runoff costs while simultaneous...
What types of vegetables you can grow with in-ground beds depends on the quality of your soil. The best kind of soil for gardening is loam — a crumbly, nutrient-rich soil that absorbs water well. You can tell if you have this kind of soil by squeezing a handful of dirt in your han...
Last year, realizing they had buckets and buckets of a wide variety of food at this time of year, they challenged themselves eat only what they grew during the month of October. And what they didn’t grow themselves, they’d source locally. ...