Wednesday, 3 October 2012
An Introduction to Square-Foot Gardening
An Introduction to Square-Foot Gardening: "According to the official site, the ten basic tenets of square-foot gardening are:
Layout. Arrange your garden in squares, not rows. Lay it out in 4′x4′ planting areas.
Boxes. Build boxes to hold a new soil mix above ground.
Aisles. Space boxes 3′ apart to form walking aisles.
Soil. Fill boxes with Mel’s special soil mix: 1/3 blended compost, 1/3 peat moss, and 1/3 coarse vermiculite.
Grid. Make a permanent square foot grid for the top of each box. A MUST
Care. NEVER WALK ON YOUR GROWING SOIL. Tend your garden from the aisles.
Select. Plant a different flower, vegetable, or herb crop in each square foot, using 1, 4, 9, or 16 plants per square foot.
Plant. Conserve seeds. Plant only a pinch (2 or 3 seeds) per hole. Place transplants in a slight saucer-shaped depression.
Water. Water by hand from a bucket of sun-warmed water.
Harvest. When you finish harvesting a square foot, add compost and replant it with a new and different crop."
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October in the garden | Sarah Raven's Kitchen and Garden
October in the garden | Sarah Raven's Kitchen and Garden: "Grow Your Own"
Grow Your Own Veg and Salad Peas and beans that have gone over can be cut down to ground level, and their roots left in the soil to be dug over – they then break down and return vital nitrogen to the earth. You can also sow broad beans this month for good early pickings in May and June next year. Plant shallots, onion sets and garlic now for the best sized bulbs next year. Cut back Jerusalem artichokes and asparagus to ground level. Dig over veg beds as their contents go over – cold weather can often help to break down any large clods of soil in to smaller, more free draining particles, ready for the next sowing. Cover any productive salad plants with cloches to protect from the frosts. Herbs Hardy herbs can be planted out in guttering in a south-facing spot. Pot up less hardy herbs such as parsley, chives and French tarragon and bring inside into a sunny, frost free spot. Cut back stems of Oregano and Marjoram that have flowered, to just above ground level.
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Grow Your Own Veg and Salad Peas and beans that have gone over can be cut down to ground level, and their roots left in the soil to be dug over – they then break down and return vital nitrogen to the earth. You can also sow broad beans this month for good early pickings in May and June next year. Plant shallots, onion sets and garlic now for the best sized bulbs next year. Cut back Jerusalem artichokes and asparagus to ground level. Dig over veg beds as their contents go over – cold weather can often help to break down any large clods of soil in to smaller, more free draining particles, ready for the next sowing. Cover any productive salad plants with cloches to protect from the frosts. Herbs Hardy herbs can be planted out in guttering in a south-facing spot. Pot up less hardy herbs such as parsley, chives and French tarragon and bring inside into a sunny, frost free spot. Cut back stems of Oregano and Marjoram that have flowered, to just above ground level.
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Companion planting - protect with plants | Sarah Raven's Kitchen and Garden
Companion planting - protect with plants | Sarah Raven's Kitchen and Garden: "Companion planting - protect with plants"
I did my own mini trial of these two last summer, mixing up a packet of carrot seed with a packet of my favourite, handsome, deep-red, sweet and tasty spring onion, ‘North Holland Blood Red’. I didn’t count the number of seeds, but chucked in four or five good pinchfulls of each interspersed. They were sown in a series of lines in a panel about ten foot long and five foot wide and harvested from July until November, and were almost, if not quite one hundred per cent hole free. 'via Blog this'
I did my own mini trial of these two last summer, mixing up a packet of carrot seed with a packet of my favourite, handsome, deep-red, sweet and tasty spring onion, ‘North Holland Blood Red’. I didn’t count the number of seeds, but chucked in four or five good pinchfulls of each interspersed. They were sown in a series of lines in a panel about ten foot long and five foot wide and harvested from July until November, and were almost, if not quite one hundred per cent hole free. 'via Blog this'
10 rules for growing vegetables in the front yard :: Outlaw Garden
10 rules for growing vegetables in the front yard :: Outlaw Garden: "10 rules for growing vegetables in the front yard"
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Coffee Grounds
Paper Jewels » Coffee Grounds:
In a word - coffee grounds. Most plants love them - I’ll do some checking to find out what *doesn’t* like the acid in coffee. But most do. Scatter the grounds as mulch. Dig them into your soil to both lighten and enrich it. 'via Blog this'
In a word - coffee grounds. Most plants love them - I’ll do some checking to find out what *doesn’t* like the acid in coffee. But most do. Scatter the grounds as mulch. Dig them into your soil to both lighten and enrich it. 'via Blog this'
Tuesday, 2 October 2012
How to Grow Great Jerusalem Artichokes - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com
How to Grow Great Jerusalem Artichokes - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com: " You can plant Jerusalem artichokes in the fall or early spring. One of the characteristics that make them so ea"
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