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  • Growing Kale

    Jan 22, 2012 1:05

    Growing Kale

    Kale.–Under this name, a great variety of cabbage-tribe plants is grown, some of them reaching a height of several feet. Usually, however, the name is applied to a low-growing, spreading plant, extensively used for winter and spring greens. The culture given to late cabbage is suitable. At the approach of [...]

     
  • What You Can and Can’t Put Into Your Compost Bin

    Jan 22, 2012 0:57

    What You Can and Can’t Put Into Your Compost Bin

    The Best Foods for your Compost Bin   There are definitely some rules to learn and follow about what you can and can’t put into your compost bin in order to keep your pile healthy and working properly.  The most widespread organic material that you will add to your compost [...]

     
  • Growing Horseradish

    Jan 20, 2012 0:37

    Growing Horseradish

    Horseradish.–Widely used as an appetizer, Horseradish is a kitchen-garden vegetable, that is usually planted in some out-of-the-way spot and a piece of the root dug as often as needed, the fragments of roots being left in the soil to grow for further use. This method results in having nothing but [...]

     
  • Growing Garlic

    Jan 20, 2012 0:34

    Growing Garlic

    Garlic.–An onion-like plant, the bulbs of which are used for flavoring. Garlic is little known in this country except amongst those of foreign birth. It is multiplied the same as multiplier onions–the bulb is broken apart and each bulbule or “clove” makes a new compound bulb in a few weeks. [...]

     
  • Growing Endive

    Jan 18, 2012 0:16

    Growing Endive

    Endive.–One of the best fall salad vegetables, being far superior to lettuce at that time and as easily grown. For fall use, the seed may be sown from June to August, and as the plants become fit to eat about the same time from sowing as lettuce does, a succession [...]

     
  • Growing Egg-Plant

    Jan 18, 2012 0:13

    Growing Egg-Plant

    Egg-plant.–The egg-plant has never become a popular home-garden product in the North. In the South it is better known. Unless one has a greenhouse or a very warm hotbed, the growing of egg-plants in the North should be left to the professional gardener, as the young plants are very tender, [...]

     
 

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  • Container Garden Vegetable Selection

    Container Garden Vegetable Selection

    Jan 8, 2012 1:35

    At The Home Garden we always have some sort of container garden. Usually it’s herbs because they do so well in containers and it’s very easy...

     
 

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Tips on Planting TreesMore in Tips on Planting Trees

  • 6 Helpfull Tips on Planting Trees

    6 Helpfull Tips on Planting Trees

    Apr 15, 2010 23:24

    Colorado Blue Spruce Last November we purchased five pine trees for my sons wedding, two white pines, two tannenbaum pines and a Colorado blue...

     
 
 

Recent Posts

  • Growing Kale

    Growing Kale

    Jan 22, 2012 1:05

    Kale.–Under this name, a great variety of cabbage-tribe plants is grown, some of them reaching a height of several...

     

  • What You Can and Can’t Put Into Your Compost Bin

    What You Can and Can’t Put Into Your Compost Bin

    Jan 22, 2012 0:57

    The Best Foods for your Compost Bin   There are definitely some rules to learn and follow about what you can and can’t...

     

  • Growing Horseradish

    Growing Horseradish

    Jan 20, 2012 0:37

    Horseradish.–Widely used as an appetizer, Horseradish is a kitchen-garden vegetable, that is usually planted in some...

     

  • Growing Garlic

    Growing Garlic

    Jan 20, 2012 0:34

    Garlic.–An onion-like plant, the bulbs of which are used for flavoring. Garlic is little known in this country except...

     

  • Growing Endive

    Growing Endive

    Jan 18, 2012 0:16

    Endive.–One of the best fall salad vegetables, being far superior to lettuce at that time and as easily grown. For...

     

  • Growing Egg-Plant

    Growing Egg-Plant

    Jan 18, 2012 0:13

    Egg-plant.–The egg-plant has never become a popular home-garden product in the North. In the South it is better known. Unless...

     

  • Growing Cucumbers

    Growing Cucumbers

    Jan 18, 2012 0:12

    Cucumber.–The custom of putting down cucumber pickles in the home kitchen is probably passing out; but both the pickling...

     

  • Growing Water Cress

    Growing Water Cress

    Jan 13, 2012 2:41

    Cress.–Two very unlike species of plants are grown under the name of cress,–the upland-cress and the water-cress....

     

  • Growing Corn

    Growing Corn

    Jan 13, 2012 2:39

    Corn, sweet or sugar.–This is the characteristic American table vegetable, and one that every home-gardener expects...

     

  • Growing Chives

    Growing Chives

    Jan 13, 2012 2:37

    Chives.–A small perennial of the onion family, it is normally used for flavoring. It is propagated by division of the...

     
 

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