DIY Pallet Furniture Set Home - Suttons Gardening Grow How Warm season lettuce-Batavian or Summercrisp lettuces « giantveggiegardener I like salads, especially in the summer but most lettuces bolted here in my garden in the summer. Last year I grew some lettuces that grew well in the summer. Most lettuces are cool season crops that bolt with the heat but Batavian (also known as Summercrisp) lettuces did surprisingly well here. I grew them in partial shade and not in the direct sun. Not only was I happy they did not bolt and nor get bitter, but they have a crisp sweet taste to them and lasted all summer. There are many more Batavian lettuces online but these are what I tried. Cardinale-recently saved from extinction. Manoa-A special mini head from University of Hawaii, grown widely in the Islands for its resistance to heat and tip-burn. Anuenue-Another A sweet green header from Hawaii. Jester-Crisp as ice, glossy, juicy as an apple, perfectly proportioned for a plate or a sandwich, flashy red speckles on semi-savoyed leaves with crazy-crisped margins like a Jester’s attire. Skyphos-Most adaptable butterhead. Related
Home About us Milkwood is a family-based social enterprise. We’re dedicated to best-practice homesteading education and skills for city and country. We work between our farm in Mudgee and our closest city: Sydney on the east coast of Australia. Our mission is to skill-up folks living in urban and rural communities with hands-on knowledge to live simply and well, while regenerating the communities and landscapes around them. We do this by providing tons of great free resources on this here blog, and with short and longer face-to-face courses in everything from natural beekeeping to permaculture design. We work with the best teachers we can find. Who we all are: Who is where: Kirsten, Nick and Ashar live at Milkwood Farm in the tinyhouse. The wider Milkwood network:
Home Page - UC Statewide IPM Program Home | The Grow Network Starting COLD HARDY VEGETABLES Super Early « giantveggiegardener So now that the Persephone period is almost over and the magic date of January 15th is upon us, what does that mean? It means our day lengths are getting longer and January 15th is when we start getting 10 hours of daylight that will continue to get longer every day. Have you noticed already it now gets dark around 5:30 instead of 5 pm? The darkest time of the year is over. If you want to try growing cold hardy vegetables outdoors at this time of year, you will need a cold frame, low tunnel or hoop house. If you already planted cold hardy vegetables late last fall in a cold frame, low tunnel or hoop house, you may have noticed that the little seedlings haven’t been growing much at all as winter set in. In late winter, before you have harvest your winter crops, decide what you want to plant in your bed once space opens up in your cold frame. STARTING VEGETABLE SEEDS INSIDE:I’ve already written about starting seeds inside on many earlier posts. arugula-Astro, Sylvetta claytonia leek-Tadorna
Flower and Garden Tips for Enthusiastic Gardeners Everywhere 花好きを応援！総合花サイトみんなの花図鑑 Layering - advice and technique Layering is a way to multiply plants quite easily, where a plant branch is buried to produce a new specimen. This lets the plant produce new roots without yet cutting stems off, which increases the survival rate of your new plant. Also very affordable, any gardener truly swells with pride when finally cutting the stem, quite like a mid-wife with the umbilical cord between mother and child. Marcotting or layering is a technique that is often applied to plants that are more difficult to prepare cuttings from. A few rules on layering The stem must still be quite flexible, prefer new growth.It must be buried in good-quality substrate, rich and moist.It is preferable to marcot in summer, during the month of August. How to layer Choose a stem (new growth) towards the base of the tree. A few layering variants Long stem layering – Almost the entire length of the stem is buried, and shoots sprout at regular intervals.Layering in pots – A pot is used to bury the stem. A few ideas of plants to layer
7 Tips for Cleaning Fruits, Vegetables Image Federal health officials estimate that nearly 48 million people are sickened by food contaminated with harmful germs each year, and some of the causes might surprise you. Although most people know animal products must be handled carefully to prevent illness, produce, too, can be the culprit in outbreaks of foodborne illness. Glenda Lewis, an expert on foodborne illness with the Food and Drug Administration, says fresh produce can become contaminated in many ways. If possible, FDA says to choose produce that isn’t bruised or damaged, and make sure that pre-cut items—such as bags of lettuce or watermelon slices—are either refrigerated or on ice both in the store and at home. Wash your hands for 20 seconds with warm water and soap before and after preparing fresh produce. Lewis says consumers should store perishable produce in the refrigerator at or below 40 degrees.