Mar 14, 2025 | Crop Growing Guides, Growing Herbs |
Growing Borage (Borago officinalis) A delightful annual herb known for its bushy growth and vibrant, edible bright blue flowers. This versatile plant serves as a magnet for bumble bee pollinators in garden plots. Borage offers a range of culinary and medicinal...
Jan 19, 2023 | "How To" Garden Guides, Crop Growing Guides, Gardening Tips |
Bok Choy Dwarf curled blue kale mustard2 Baby Greens grown in small cells I just love greens! Lately i have realized that i love eating baby greens more than the full size greens. I don’t mean microgreens. I mean baby as in when they are 3-6″ tall. I...
Oct 20, 2022 | Crop Growing Guides |
Growing Turmeric Attain turmeric root Turmeric doesn’t propagate seeds and is grown from rhizomes (root cuttings). Therefore, all you need is one organic turmeric root, which you can buy at a local nursery or online. Break up the rhizome Break off the fingers...
Oct 22, 2020 | Crop Growing Guides |
Recipes Roselle Jam Ingredients: Rosellas Sugar Water 1 teaspoon of butter The juice of 1 lemon The Recipe: Separate red calyxes from the seedpods Wash and drain each seperately. In a saucepan, add seeds and water until the seeds are just covered. Tip: (Add a little...
Jan 10, 2018 | Crop Growing Guides |
Waltham Butternut Butternut Squash yellow squash zucchini2 Pumpkin squash In Florida we plant out summer squash (yellow squash, zucchini) Feb. – March and Aug. – Sept. Winter squash (pumpkin, butternut) Feb. – March and...
Dec 1, 2016 | Crop Growing Guides |
Growing Spinach Soil Spinach prefers a well draining soil with a neutral pH and won’t be happy in a pH lower than 6.0. Because it is such a fast grower, it is also a heavy feeder. A fertilizer high in nitrogen, the first number on the fertilizer package, will help...
Dec 1, 2016 | Crop Growing Guides |
Cal Wonder Bell Buran Bell Sweet Banana Hatch Chile Start seeds indoors 8-10 weeks before last frost. (usually mid Jan. in zone 9) see How to start seeds Germination temperature: 80-85 degrees 6-21 days to germinate (moisture & temperature could effect germination...
Dec 1, 2016 | Crop Growing Guides |
Growing Lettuce Lolla Rossa Lettuce Webbs Wonderful Rossa di Trento Romaine Germination Notes Lettuce fails to germinate at temperatures above 80 degrees. To grow lettuce during hot weather, start indoors at 70-75 degrees for good germination. Grow...
Dec 1, 2016 | Crop Growing Guides |
Growing Cucumbers Suyo Long Cucumber Highly productive! trellised cukes Creamy Cucumber Salad pickle size pickles Direct seed or start indoors 3 weeks before last frost. Germination temperature 75-85 degrees. Sow ½”-1” deep. Space 36” on ground (not recommended),...
Dec 1, 2016 | Crop Growing Guides |
Garden Guides Seed starting/Saving Vegetable Growing Guides Herb Growing Guides Insects Recipes About Me Growing Tomatoes Cherokee Purple TomatoCherokee Purple tomato Cherry TomatoesChadwick Cherry Egg Yolk TomatoesHeirloom Egg Yolk Orange BananaOrange Banana Red...
Nov 30, 2016 | Crop Growing Guides |
You can order seed potato pieces from an online catalog, but i use store bought organic potatoes and they do just fine. This is what I do. If I can find some potatoes that are already growing sprouts I will buy those. But if not I buy whatever kind of...
Nov 30, 2016 | Crop Growing Guides |
Type- yellow common ginger Ginger loves: sheltered spot from wind, filtered sunlight or indirect, warm weather, humidity and rich moist soil. Doesn’t like: frost, direct sun, strong winds, soggy wet soil. When to plant: Plant rhizome pieces (part with...
Dec 23, 2014 | Crop Growing Guides |
Growing Sweet potatoes Planting & Growing from Slips. Sweet potato grown from slips generally need at least 4 months of frost-free growing. I grow and sell Georgia Jets which is an early variety need about 90-120 days from transplanted slips until the full size...
