Nine important tips for starting veggie and flower seeds indoors including containers, planting media, light, warmth and water requirements, hardening-off, extending seasons, row covers & more.
Entries Tagged as 'vegetable garden'
Start Seeds Indoors and Save Money
February 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Broccoli, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Celery, Tomatoes, Vegetable Gardening, Winter Squash, seed starting
Tags: food growing·seed starting·seeds·vegetable garden·veggies
Save Water in the Garden
May 7th, 2009 · No Comments · Container gardening, Irrigation, Vegetable Gardening
Here are a number of ways to save water in the garden. If you think of more, please comment below and share them with all of us.
Compost – Amending your garden or container soil with lots of organic compost will help build the water-holding capacity of that soil reducing run-off.
Mulch – Use at least two [...]
Tags: compost·drip irrigation·grey water·groundcover·mulch·rain barrel·vegetable garden·water in garden·xeriscape
Easy to Grow Broccoli, Cauliflower & Cabbage
May 4th, 2009 · No Comments · Broccoli, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Container gardening, Insects, Vegetable Gardening
Growing broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage in the vegetable garden or containers is easy to do. You can buy plants or raise them from seed. Try growing your own if you want lots of choices when it comes to varieties. Start the seeds indoors 4-5 weeks before you’d like to set them out. Older transplants won’t [...]
Tags: Bacillus thuringiensis·Broccoli·Bt·Cabbage·Cauliflower·cutworm·food growing·vegetable garden
WonderSoil, Food-Growing Encyclopedia, StrawPots & Super Plums
April 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Book Reviews, Container gardening, Gardening News, Healthy Gardener, Insects, Plums
•WonderSoil is by far the best soilless potting mix I have ever used. It is a dehydrated, compressed medium that quickly expands 10 to 12 times in volume when water is added. It is made up of a combination of coconut coir, worm castings, kelp, mycorrhizal fungi, water-holding polymers and organic micro-nutrients. Seedlings germinate quickly [...]
Tags: food-growing encyclopedia·garden·plum·StrawPot·vegetable garden·WonderSoil
New People’s Garden on the National Mall
April 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · Food Gardening, Gardening News, Vegetable Gardening
The gardening bug has really taken Washington DC by storm! Not only is Michelle Obama growing her own food garden at the White House, but the US Department of Agriculture will showcase sustainability at the new six acre People’s Garden on the National Mall.
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Tags: food growing·garden·organic gardening·People's Garden·USDA garden·vegetable garden
Earthworms in the Garden
April 12th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Book Reviews, Composting & Fertilizers, Food Gardening, Soil, Vegetable Gardening
Earthworms in the garden are one of the best indicators of soil health and vitality. They are the original recyclers, turning garden waste, grass clippings and even sand into food for your plants. These little wrigglers ingest their own weight daily and expel nutrient and mineral rich castings which will keep everything from carrots to [...]
Tags: compost·earthworms·fertilize·garden·mulch·organic·organic gardening·Soil·vegetable garden·vermicomposting·worm castings
Grow Winter Squash for Storage
April 6th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Cooking & Recipes, Food Gardening, Vegetable Gardening, Winter Squash
Like other food gardeners, I enjoy eating sun-warmed tomatoes picked ripe off the vine and crisp greens harvested in the cool of the evening, but yesterday as I was preparing my favorite roast veggie dish, I thought about the lowly winter squash. The name says it all, this is not a vegetable to be enjoyed [...]
Tags: butternut squash·chocolate·edible·garden·recipes·storage squash·vegetable·vegetable garden·veggies·Winter Squash
Neighborhood Food Growing
March 29th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Container gardening, Food Gardening, Fruit, Vegetable Gardening
Here’s a new twist on eating locally grown food. Friends, neighbors and others in the same geographical area are banding together to grow as much of their food supply as possible. It’s a great idea, especially now during our economic downturn.
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Tags: community agriculture·food growing·Fruit·fruit growing·garden·growing·local food·vegetable·vegetable garden·veggies