In milder climates, or when an early start to the growing season is not required, you can sow the seeds in place where they are supposed to mature; or prepare a patch with fine soil to grow seedlings, which you can later transplant. For the outside seed-bed select the most thoroughly pulverized spot to be …
The spade or spading-fork will be followed by the garden hoe, or hook, and the iron garden rake; and the garden plow by one or more of the various types of harrow. The best type of garden hoe for use after the spade is the wide, deep-bladed type. In most soils, however, this work may …
The Garden Spade and Spading Fork While some garden tools have been improved and developed out of all resemblance to their original forms, others have changed little in generations, and in probability will remain ever with us. There is a thing or two to say about even the simplest of them, however, especially to anyone …
Any of these may be sown in spring and, with the exception of potatoes, twelve to eighteen inches apart. The soil must be rich and finely worked, in order that the roots will be even and smooth. Beets do best in light soil. Those for earliest use are started under glass and set out six …
As anyone knows who has ever planned out a garden, there are rules to gardening organic that help to make the garden even more successful. Some of this will involve the use of organic garden fertilizer, which is a big boon for smaller home gardens, and some will involve the choice of plants you use. …
Beans (Snap): Pick when the pods are almost full size, but before the seeds begin to bulge. Never pick beans that are wet or have dew on them. Beets: Pick the greens when the leaves are 4 to 6 inches long. If you want to use the tops or small beets, pick when the beets …
In deciding upon the site for the home vegetable garden it is well to dispose once and for all of the old idea that the veggie patch must be an ugly spot in the home surroundings. If thoughtfully planned, carefully planted and thoroughly cared for, it may be made a beautiful and harmonious feature of …
Pumpkins: Pick when fruits are full size, the rind is firm and glossy, and the portion of the pumpkin touching the soil is cream or orange in color. Radishes: Pick when 1 to 11/2 inches in diameter. Rhubarb: Pick when stalks are 8 to 15 inches long. Flavor and tenderness are best in spring and …
The quality of leaf vegetables will depend largely upon growing them rapidly. They are all great nitrogen-consumers and therefore take kindly to liberal supplies of garden manure, which is high in nitrogen. For celery the garden manure is best applied to some preceding crop, such as early cabbage. The others will take it “straight.” Most …
I was recently visiting a friend of mine who has the perfect organic container garden in her tiny handkerchief sized back yard. The space is very small, but when you walk into it, it feels like an oasis from the city of Vancouver and is always a cool and welcome space. She has a passion …
Practically speaking, your vegetables must get all their food from the garden soil. This important garden fact may seem self-evident, but, if one may judge by their practice, amateur gardeners very frequently fail to realize it. Without plenty of plant food, all the care, coddling, coaxing, cultivating, spraying and worrying you may give will avail …
