How To Grow

Leeks are a valuable addition to the garden because they can be used instead of pungent storage onions from October until April. Even in heavy soils, leeks are easy to grow and have lots of flavour. Follow this handy How to Grow Leeks from Seed guide and you will grow food all season long. Latin Allium ampeloprasum var. porrum Family: Amaryllidaceae Difficulty Easy, but slow. Transplanting required. Season & Zone Season: Cool season Exposure: Full-sun Zone: Overwintering leeks are hardy to Zone 7. Timing Start summer/fall harvest leeks in February/March in flats indoors. Start winter harveset leeks from March to...

The information here refers to the biennial plant that is confusingly called Lunaria annua. It also goes by the common names Honesty, Moonwort, Judas’ Penny, Satin Flower, Money Plant, and Silver Dollars. Latin Lunaria annua Family: Brassicaceae Difficulty Easy Season & Zone Exposure: Full sun to partial shade Zone: Hardy in 3-10 Timing Direct sow in early spring, when there is still some risk of frost—mid to late March on the coast. Or sow in the fall if winters are mild in your area. Starting Sow seeds a couple of millimeters (1/8″) deep, and space plants 3045cm (12-18″) apart. Growing...

Use this page to learn How to Grow Garlic. Garlic is a very economical crop to grow because it takes up very little space. Once it is harvested it keeps for months. And then some of the harvest can be saved for planting again in the fall. One small 4 x 8 foot bed can produce enough garlic to keep you going right through the winter from a late July harvest. The trick is spacing, timing, and curing. Latin Allium ophioscorodon & A. sativum Family: Alliaceae Season & Zone Season: Cool season Exposure: Full sun Zone: 4 Timing Sow cloves...

The Linum species we offer is an annual flowering flax. It is beautiful and easy and suitable for large containers. Linum grandiflorum is native to Algeria. Latin Linum grandiflorum Family: Linaceae Difficulty Easy Season & Zone Exposure: Full sun Zone: 3-10 Timing Direct sow after last frost date. Sow more seeds every two to three weeks for successive blooming. If you need to start seeds indoors, use peat pots and harden off seedlings carefully to avoid transplant shock. Starting Sow seeds by barely covering them to a depth of 5mm (1/8″). Seeds germinate in 20 to 25 days. Thin seedlings to...

Whatever type of carrot seeds you plant it’s easy to learn how to grow carrots from seed.  Here are some common characteristics. Carrots are biennials, so they use their leaves in the first year, to gather energy from the sun to build a big, starchy root. This is where they store their energy over the winter. The following spring they use that stored energy to send up a tall umbel of white flowers, looking strikingly similar to Queen Anne’s Lace to which they are closely related. When the weather gets cold in the first year of growth, carrots convert a lot of...