brassicas
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Changes bring big harvests
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We all strive to grow big and beautiful pieces of vegetables. We want perfect lettuce heads, big cabbages, long carrots, and lots of beans and peas per plant. But, what if we notice that no matter what we do we…
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Backyard is the new seedling spot
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Growing seedlings can be a real challenge when you don’t have a designated seedling area. Seedlings require lots of space, but the space should be sunny during the spring, and partly sunny during the summer. When you don’t own a…
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Harvesting and cooking brassica greens
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I’ve never had such an early brassica harvest in all my gardening years. This year I decided to try a new approach to growing brassica greens. Usually, I’d sow the brassica seedlings around March, transplant them in the middle of…
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Summer seedlings
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Now that all the spring seedlings have been planted, I finally got the time to organize the rest of the seedlings. They were everywhere. Some were kept in the front yard, others in the side yard, and some even in…
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Hail and rain
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May always brings violent weather changes. The temperature in May changes within 14 days from early spring mild warmth to summer heat. Showers are very often, and sometimes even storms are present. May is the month in which we get…