Monthly Archives: July 2010
Gardening Patterns
Spring-Summer-Fall The most typical gardening pattern for North America is the Spring-Summer-Fall (S-S-F) gardening season. These gardeners have a spring frost date (the average date of the last spring frost) and a fall frost date (the average date of the first fall frost), and have to fit in all the gardening in between! S-S-F gardeners plant Hardy vegetables in the spring, followed by Semi-Hardy. After the frost date, they plant Tender and, a few weeks later, Very Tender plants. Soon the temperatures are too warm for the Hardy and Semi-Hardy plants, and they must be harvested or go to seed. … Continue reading
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Types of Plants–Very Tender, Tender, Semi-Hardy and Hardy
Plants can be divided into several types depending on how well they tolerate cold, freezing temperatures, and frost. Very Tender These types of plants cannot tolerate any frost or cold temperatures at all. They need to be planted when the weather is warm, after all danger of frost has passed. All of these Very Tender plants have long growing seasons (they take a long time to go from seed to harvest), so you want to wait until the weather is warm enough for them, but you can’t wait too long or you will not have a chance to harvest before … Continue reading
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How To Build Tomato Cages
After buying the supplies and building these myself, I have updated instructions on how to build tomato cages. The old way I suggested used zip ties, and required much less cutting. However, it required flattening out the remesh and rolling it the other direction, which was also a lot of work. In the end, I decided to go with the roll and cut, cut, cut. Supplies: Steel remesh–I found a roll of 5′x100′ for $100 at Home Depot Bolt cutters–$14 (smaller is better) It’s pretty expensive to tackle this on your own, especially if you don’t need 20 tomato cages. … Continue reading
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Vanessa-Gardening in California
Please welcome Vanessa, our guest blogger of the week! Over night the Jalapeno plant grew all sorts of peppers. The one in the front was growing last week but the other four just sprouted out of no where. You wouldn’t know it from the pictures but this plant is still a tiny little guy and has only grown to about 8 or 9 inches tall but that isn’t stopping it from giving me some yummy looking peppers. The cucumber plants are getting so big… I found about 20 of these little guys all over the trellis. I planted three more cucumber plants … Continue reading
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