How To Grow — category: How to Grow Vegetables
How to Grow Asparagus Crowns
category: How to Grow Vegetables
Asparagus crowns are live goods that have been freshly harvested from the soil. Like seed potatoes and hops rhizomes, they have only recently been dug from the soil, and are in a state of dormancy. This dormancy is broken in response to temperature, day length, and available moisture.
How to Grow Potatoes from Seed
category: How to Grow Vegetables
Potatoes, just like other vegetables, flower in the summer. If the flowers are pollinated, small fruits can form that look like tiny tomatoes. If the fruits mature, they can develop seeds. In most cases, the genetics of potato seeds are not predictable, and may produce undesirable traits. In this case, the seeds are hybrids that have been carefully produced by plant breeders, so they will produce consistent results.
How to Grow Chickpeas
category: How to Grow Vegetables category: Organic Growing chickpeas
Chickpeas require 90-100 days to mature. Start them indoors approximately 4 weeks before the last average frost date. Optimal soil temperature: 10°C (50°F). Seeds sprout in 14-21 days depending on conditions.
How to Grow Peas
category: How to Grow Vegetables
Since you cannot purchase shelling peas or edible pod peas that are freshly picked, this is one vegetable every home garden should have. The peas in the pod taste sweetest right after they have been picked (while you’re still in the garden!). Follow along with this handy how to grow peas guide and grow food. Latin Pisum sativum Family: Fabaceae Timing Peas prefer cool weather. Plant as early in spring as the soil can be worked, from mid-Feburary to the end of May. After April 1, sow varities that are listed as being enation resistant if you live in an area where...
How to Grow Sesame
category: How to Grow Vegetables
Sesame is commercially produced in desert settings, so when we say it’s drought tolerant, we really mean it. In fact, this is really the key to success with sesame seeds, as we will outline in the following guide on how to grow sesame from seed. Sesame is a tropical annual herb that grows to about 60cm (24″) tall. Its leaves radiate out from a stem that is square in cross section. Latin Sesamum indicum Family: Pedaliaceae Difficulty Somewhat challenging Season & Zone Season: Hot season Exposure: Full sun Zone: Not hardy Timing Sow seeds indoors 4 to 6 weeks before...
