When to Plant Garlic
Garlic needs a long growing season, fertile, well drained soil and plenty of moisture. However, it’s not that fussy about when it’s planted. You can harvest a good crop from both spring- and fall-planted garlic. Your climate does have a…
Overwintering Peppers
In USDA climate zones 10 and above, the climate is warm enough to grow peppers as . Most gardeners treat them as annuals, but with some care, pepper plants can be overwintered just like cold-sensitive perennials. You will have full-sized plants when your neighbors are nursing seedlings. Dormant State The most common method of overwintering peppers is through keeping them in a dormant but alive state. This method will not…
How to Grow Garlic Indoors
Like many plants in the vegetable garden, garlic can be grown indoors. Neither vegetable or herb, garlic is really a flowering bulb that happens to be edible. Like other flowering bulbs, you can grow it indoors under the right conditions.…
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How to Store Garlic
Garlic’s spicy bite is a sought-after flavor and the ease of growing this long-season plant means it is often found in vegetable gardens. It is also easy to store. In addition to cool, dry storage, garlic can be dried, turned into powder, frozen, pickled, fermented and frozen. However, it should not be canned. What Do I Need to Know About Growing Garlic? Garlic is a long-season crop that can be…
Overwintering Swiss Chard
Mangold is a biennial plant. Already in the first year leaves and stems can be harvested until late autumn. In the second year, between March and May, the chard delivers a second fresh green leaf. The prerequisite for this is…
Growing Lettuce Indoors
Because we eat the leaves of the lettuce plant, it doesn’t need to flower or fruit for it to be ‘ripe’ for the picking. For this reason, lettuce is an easy vegetable to grow indoors. A little bit of light and some all-purpose potting soil is really all you need to have fresh lettuce at your fingertips year-round. Types of Lettuce There are three general types of lettuce plants. Then…