Many people do not know that the cucumber plant has both male and female flowers. With the help of insect pollinators, the female flowers are pollinated by pollen carried to them by the male flowers. It is the female flowers that give us cucumbers. If, for whatever reason, there is no pollination, what we observe […]
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We welcome the new growing season, now that autumn is here… and winter is just around the corner We welcome broccoli, cauliflowers, cauliflowers, cabbages, lettuce, leeks, spinach, beets, carrots, peas, beans, garlic, onions, potatoes, potatoes, endives, apples, oranges, mandarins, pears. Autumn and Winter are a magical time for the garden. You can grow so many
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This year I decided to conduct an experiment. To try growing tomatoes, peppers, squash, lettuce and cucumbers in clay pots. It all started because of the coronavirus quarantine. I, like many others, missed a month and a half of the March to April growing season. I was unable to plant the seedlings in the garden
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“When do I apply fertilizer to trees and vegetables“? This is a very basic and essential question that new and old growers alike ask. If you don’t apply fertilizer to trees and vegetables at the right time and in the right amounts, there is a high risk of doing harm instead of good. At best,
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Disease and pest infestations on vegetables are one of the biggest problems that the amateur gardener has to deal with in his garden. As you will see below, there is not much we can do about our vegetables as a drastic preventive measure. I will give you tips about 14 vegetables. How to avoid unpleasant
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What happens if you harvest a lettuce by cutting it and don’t uproot it? How do we cut a lettuce from the garden? The classic way to harvest lettuce from the garden is to uproot it. Pull it out of the soil with its root. Cut off the root and consume the delicious lettuce. This
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In this article we will talk about what fertilizer and when to apply it on trees, vegetables and other crops. Fertilizer is any substance provided to plants (by top dressing the soil or by foliar application), intended to supply them with the elements necessary for their nutrition. Basal fertilization is carried out at the stage of
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Peas are a climbing, expansive plant that holds on to anything it can find to grow and climb. It is important to provide support for peas. It is only in our best interest as gardeners to give it supports from which it will grab. From time to time I have tried various methods for supporting
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From city kid to posting a new vegetable gardener guide. As a city kid, the only contact I had with vegetables was when we bought them ready-made from the market and when we consumed them. In the majority of cases, I had never seen the plants from which the things we ate came from. I
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Vegetables and herbs need vital space to grow. Vital space refers to both their root system and their trunk and leaves. You need to maintain spacing for successful cultivation. Please use the table bellow as a rough measurement. I do not expect you to take a measurement tape and measure with precision the space between
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