Tips for Growing Honeycrisp Apples Malus domestica ‘Honeycrisp’
21.07.2023 - 22:11 / awaytogarden.com
GROWING CARROTS, BEETS, RADISHES or other root vegetables can be more challenging than, say, growing a zucchini or pole bean, but these long-storing staples are worth mastering. What’s the secret to growing root crops, whether the most familiar kinds, or even a turnip or parsnip?1.Timing is everything: In general, says Daniel Yoder (above), a research product technician at Johnny’s Selected Seeds in Maine, root crops prefer to mature in cool weather. “Most of these crops grow and taste the best when planted in July or August for fall harvesting,” he says. “Plus, colors on the roots will develop more vibrantly in cool soils.”Carefully choose your varieties for each season, sowing faster-maturing varieties for spring and slower-maturing varieties for summer plantings for fall harvest and storage.
2.Direct sow for success: Growing root vegetables can be especially challenging because they require direct seeding to grow strong, unhindered roots and some grow rather slowly from seeds, especially in cooler spring soils. Beets are an exception that can be transplanted, with care taken to get them planted at the right time. (Some farmers are experimenting with planting radishes, beets, and even carrots with the Paperpot Transplanter to give them a jump on the weeds.)
3. Don’t skimp on sunshine—select a full-sun location. Too much shade means your plants may struggle, and under-perform.
4. Don’t skimp on bed preparation, either. Loosen the soil, picking out rocks, says Dan, then firm the bed before sowing so that you’ll get good seed-to-soil contact.
“You don’t want to loosen it and just plant into a loose bed,” he says, “because that bed will settle a little bit, which will also distort the root growth a little bit and just set them
Tips for Growing Honeycrisp Apples Malus domestica ‘Honeycrisp’
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This is one of the many books in my collection but the only one to focus on growing big, bigger and biggest vegetables. If you want to grow giant vegetable for exhibition or to get large crops then there are many pointers in ‘How to Grow Giant Vegetables’ by Bernard Lavery and below.
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Ipomea indica the blue form of Morning Glory is a cool clear blue, a startling colour in the garden. As you would expect from a member of the Convolvulous clan it is a strong twisting and binding climber.
Don’t judge the results by the crop you harvest but by the seeds you sow
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Everyone loves falafel—it’s a year-round staple, and the frozen options at Trader Joe’s make it incredibly easy to prepare. But today, you should probably rid your freezer shelves of any Trader Joe’s falafel: In the company’s third food recall this week, on July 28 Trader Joe’s recalled its fan-favorite Fully Cooked Falafel after being informed by the supplier that rocks were found in the food.