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DIY Green Onion Garden - large green onion tops

DIY Green Onion GardenI love having a never-ending green onion garden, especially on the cheap. I recently got a huge bag of green onions at the shop for 50 cents. Some of them were starting to wilt at the tips. I used the dark green parts in some recipes, and soaked the roots in some water overnight. I then planted them.

 

Growing Celery From Kitchen Scraps - celery growing the garden

Growing Celery From Kitchen ScrapsWhen you are finished with the bunch of celery, put it in a glass of water to root. Then put it in a pot with potting soil. When it gets bigger plant in the ground. Water it regularly and you will have celery.

 

Growing Sugar Snap Peas - peas in a bowl

Growing Sugar Snap PeasWhen harvesting seed for next year's crop, it's important that the fruit stay on the vine/plant as long as possible, even until frost. The pods of peas and beans should be dry, papery, and tough.

 

Replanting a Sprouting Onion - lying on top of soil

Replanting a Sprouting OnionIt's spring and even the veggies in my kitchen know it. I have had potatoes sprout before I can use them up and bags of carrots all fuzzy with roots. This is half a red onion that I forgot in my crisper drawer. Usually, it would just get soft and rotten, but this tenacious onion started growing green shoots.

 

closeup of zip tied plant

Use Zip Ties to Support PlantsZip ties are inexpensive and come in a variety of lengths. I use them to attach my plants to my chain link fence, tomato cage, or pole support. It keeps the fruit from rotting and also stakes them so they don't steal the sun from other plants.

 

cucumber seed envelop

Choosing A Cucumber VarietyI am harvesting, and enjoying, some of the best cucumbers I have ever tasted. I wanted to share the name with you.

 

A plate and bottle

Protecting Tomato SeedlingsI used to place each plant into a paper cup that had the bottom cut out. I now use the red plastic disposable dinner plates. I cut a round hole in the center with a slit cut to the edge of the plate. Then I make 4 cross cuts around the circle for the round trellis to poke through into the dirt.

 

Veggie Seedlings

Veggie SeedlingsIn addition to serving as "food" in a few months, these plantings are helping me to "Think Spring" and avoid the winter blues! Some of the planters have just one seed-type, others have a variety.

 

example of miner damage

Leaf Miner Beetle Damage to CropsLeaf miner beetles seek out leafy greens. They lay their eggs often unnoticed and when the larva hatches it burrows into the leaf and lives inside it tunneling around eating the inside of the leaf. They eventually drop into the soil and burrow down into the dirt to wait for next year's crop.

 

A trellis with wood poles and rope, for training beans.

Simple Pole Bean TrellisOur kids planted pole beans this year and we needed a simple trellis for the beans to grow on. My husband found some pieces of 2x2 wood, leftover from another project, and cut 3 pieces to the same length.

 

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Wild OnionsHarvest wild onions for use during the year. You can also buy green onions at the store and cut off the tops and plant the bulbs in your garden. They will continue to grow each year so long as you do not remove the bulb.

 

A bunch of red radishes

How to Grow RadishesRadishes are one of the first vegetable crops to get planted in the spring and one of the first crops ready for harvest. If one of your gardening goals is to grow mouth-watering radishes, here is everything you need to know to get started.

 

Home Grown Food Garden

Garden for Home Grown FoodThis is my garden that I started in late May. I purchased the plants, tomatoes, peppers and eggplant from a nearby farm.

 

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Preparing Your Soil to Avoid Tomato BlightIf you have a problem with tomato plants contracting a blight that starts at the bottom and works its way up until the plant is dead, or even the beginning of a blight, you need to cook your garden bed.

 

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