Pumpkins.

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I bought the plant and is ready to put it outside!

Jack-o'-lantern pumpkins are a classic fall crop, providing a great opportunity for growers to extend their selling season.
How to Make Homemade Pumpkin Pie - from an Ordinary Jack 'O Lantern Pumpkin.

Those big pumpkins may not be as sweet as the smaller “sugar pumpkins” or “pie pumpkins”, but you can still use them for everything from roasted veggies to oatmeal, to soups, loaves and pies.
The typical "jack-o-lantern" or carving pumpkins tend to have little flesh for the size and are very stringy and flavorless.
Pumpkins are an excellent source of fiber, vitamin A (in the form of beta-carotene, an important antioxidant), vitamin C and potassium.

Do nothing but wait, as squash only produce their very best flavour after a few weeks of storage.
The exact length of storage does vary noticeably between varieties.
Between one month for 'Crown Prince' to up to three months for 'Butternut' types.
The only important thing you need to remember is that they be kept cool and dry, in a well ventilated place.
A garage or a shed would be perfect.
And in just a few weeks you won't believe the difference.

Which are the best pumpkins? | Sarah Raven:

I'd probably grow pumpkins for their looks alone, but the right ones can make fantastic eating. I have some tried-and-tested favourites: 'Red Kuri' is a useful size, with waxy texture and excellent taste. It can climb (Teepee Trellis), which is handy in a smaller garden and is a good producer.
Another winner is 'Crown Prince', a hugely long storer with good texture and taste, while 'Munchkin' is pretty, small, abundant, with flesh reminiscent of sweet chestnut.

-‘Crown of Thorns'
Looks and ornamental longevity 7/10
Eating 2/10

Blueberries. By James Wong.

One trial found that lightly cooking blueberries (as happens when you bake a pie) can double their absorbable antioxidant content. Talk about having your pie and eating it.

The homegrown variety 'Rubel', for example, delivers three times the antioxidant payload of supermarket staples like 'Bluecrop'.

Tomatoes. By James Wong.

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"Unbelievably, spraying a dilute solution of aspirin onto your tomato plants (we are talking half a soluble tablet per litre of water) is capable of causing their sugar content to soar one and a half times and boost their Vitamin C content 50%.

This treatment can even make your plants more resistant to cold, drought and (not that we'll ever need it in the UK) heat stress too. According to one trial this can even result in a 47% less incidence of late blight, the scourge of tomato growers,
This works as aspirin is a close chemical copy of the plant stress hormone, salicylic acid, which turns on the genes that regulate their defence systems.

The more stress a plant 'thinks' it is under, the more sugars are redirected to the developing fruit in a bid to make them irresistable to passing animals. Plants do this to ensure their seeds have the maximum chance of being dispersed to save the next generation, but it conveniently makes for tastier salad too."
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- Невероятно, опрыскивание раствором аспирина растений томата - помидора (растворить половину таблетки на литр воды) способно повысить содержание сахара в них в полтора раза и повысить содержание витамина С на 50%!

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Potatoes.

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How to grow Strawberry Spinach.

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This easy to grow plant produces edibles leaves and fruit - Annual!

An old-fashioned plant that dates to 1600 in Europe.
This curious plant produces greens that are picked and cooked like spinach, but it also produces attractive, red berries that are bland in flavor.
These add a nice touch to fruit salads.
Easy-to-grow plants are similar to “Lamb’s Quarters”, a wild relative.
Found in a monastery garden.
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Homemade Fertilizers.

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Comfrey Liquid (1:50)
I pick the comfrey just before it flowers and cram it into a water butt.
This normally takes 6 to 8 weeks depending on how warm it is. Tip: If you put the tub in the sun it works quicker. You can start using it at this stage.
When you get a green sludge (even more vile smelling a month or so later) I bottle it in 75cl bottles, old screw cap wine bottles. One 75cl bottle will do four watering cans of 2 gallons per can - i..e. one litre to every 10.5 gallons of water (50 litres) or 1:50.
Stinging Nettles Liquid
Wood Ash Liquid
Fill the bucket nearly full with water and stir for three weeks.
With tomatoes I use it once or twice a week, but by August when the tomatoes are at their best I use it every day for a short period.
If you want to keep the plants after a prolonged period of watering with wood ash liquid, add some Epsom salts to the pots and the green will return.
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Most perfect fertilizer + pesticide is epsom salt.

the world's most perfect fertilizer + pesticide is epsom salt.
This is so true- every other week- 1 gallon of water,
1 TBSP of miracle grow and 3 TBSP of epsom salt.

Studies show that magnesium and sulfur, two major components of Epsom salt, may help plants grow greener with higher yields and more blooms.
Magnesium creates an environment conducive to growth by helping seeds to germinate, increasing chlorophyll production and improving phosphorus and nitrogen uptake.

Dilute a tablespoon of Epsom salt in a gallon of water will do fine.
You can use it a s foliar spray as well for blossom drop at the same dilution.

Some people just sprinkle a little in a ring around the plant.

I thinks as a spray its 2 oz per gallon. I weighted that out at the weekend and 2oz filled about 4 tablespoons - so I put 1 tablespoon in a litre of spray - and that was at least twice what I needed for everything I could think of spraying!

Epsom salts almost certainly cheaper at the Garden centre than the Chemist, but given how little one uses it may be a bit irrelevant

1/2oz of magnesium to 1 pint of water and use it as a foliar spray for magnesium deficient plants. I have used this on yellowing tomato leaves and they green up nicely.

Dissolved in hot water & then soak your feet in it.
Great for hardening up your soles before a walking holiday.

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35 Pest and Disease Remedies

Companion Planting Guides

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