Cutting into your potato and finding dark-colored areas inside of it can be a cause for alarm. People get food poisoning all the time, and it’s much better to be safe than sorry when it comes to your health. These black areas in the potato can cause you to question if you should throw away … Read more Why Is My Raw Potato Black Inside and 3 Ways to Prevent It
Nutrient pH 5.5-6.6 EC – 1.8-2.3 PPM 1260-1610 Spinach is a cool weather crop that lends itself well to the hydroponic realm only when properly cared for. It does not perform as well in higher temperatures Hydroponic Spinach Temperatures Maximum Temp 75° Fahrenheit Optimal Day Cycle Temps 65 – 70° Fahrenheit Optimal Night Cycle Temps … Read more Hydroponic Spinach How to Grow Abundant Quality Spinach Hydroponically
Sugar Pearl is an early producing hybrid white sweet corn. As the name suggests it is pearly white and sugary sweet. Stalks attain a height of about 5 to 6 feet and yield ears of 7 – 7.5 inch pearly white sweet corn. It is a relatively trouble-free variety of corn suitable for gardeners with … Read more Sugar Pearl Sweet Corn Hybrid
Native to Peru and Ecuador Peruvian Giant Corn – also known as Choclo is a hideously large variety of corn. How Tall Does Choclo Corn Get? The stalks reach up to 18 feet in height, a runt in a litter of this cultivar would tower over standard varieties at a whopping 14 feet. One would … Read more Choclo: The Peruvian Giant Corn Facts and Growing Information
You’ve been toiling in the garden all year now the harvest is in. What you have is an abundance of onions. If you have more onions than you can eat in a few sittings, you’ll want to preserve them. Here we will share 3 common methods for preserving onions: freezing, canning, and dehydrating. 3 Ways … Read more 3 Methods for Preserving Onions: Canning, Freezing, and Dehydrating
Companion Planting is the placement of various crops in close physical proximity to one another so as to symbiotically compliment each others health, vigor, growth and the flavor of their produce. It also naturally involves separating plants whose development is antagonistic to each other. Herbs such as parsley, basil, coriander and Dill. Flowers such as Aster family flowers, Marigolds, … Read more Asparagus Companion Planting: 9 Compatible Plants for Asparagus
As the name implies these are a favorite of many Northern Gardeners as they are well adapted to shorter seasons and cooler climates. They bear medium green fruits fairly early. The vines are relatively compact as opposed to many cumbersome sprawling varieties, which makes them ideal for those with limited garden space. They should be … Read more Northern Pickling Cucumber
Gardeners have lots of tips to improve their harvests, many sound absurd and border on quackery, many sounds absurd and actually work. Early blight is a disease that afflicts tomatoes, potatoes, and some related crops, it strikes early in the growing season, which is why it is sometimes called “early blight”, technically it is Alternaria … Read more Stop Tomato Blight with Copper Wire – Doe’s it Really Work?
Second Hand Smoke harms Tomato Plants Smoking is bad for you, but you probably already knew that. The Center for Disease control reports that Cigarette smoking causes more than 480,000 deaths per year in the USA, 41,000 of those deaths from secondhand smoke. Smoking is also bad for your tomatoes and other solanaceous plants as … Read more Smoking is Bad for Tomatoes – Here’s Why
Sikkim cucumbers resemble their cousins, the cantaloupes. They have a webbed skin similar to cantaloupe that is an orange-red color, a tad darker than cantaloupe. It doesn’t taste anything like cantaloupe however, it tastes like a cucumber but slightly sweeter. The foliage is about twice the size of normal cucumbers, as are the flowers. This … Read more What are Sikkim Cucumbers. How to Grow Sikkim Cucumbers