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13 Key Nutrients for Plants – #12 Molybdenum
13 Key Nutrients for Plants - #12 Molybdenum Soil testing is an important activity for a successful garden. Soil stewardship is an ongoing process, where you test and amend, grow…
13 Key Nutrients for Plants – #3 Potassium
13 Key Nutrients for Plants - #3 Potassium Soil testing is an important activity for a successful garden. Soil stewardship is an ongoing process, where you test and amend, grow…
13 Key Nutrients for Plants – #2 Phosphorous
13 Key Nutrients for Plants - #2 Phosphorous Soil testing is an important activity for a successful garden. Soil stewardship is an ongoing process, where you test and amend, grow…
Saving Your Cucumber Seeds In 8 Easy Steps
Saving your own seeds can be a real money saver but more importantly, you can, over time, develop a particular line of seeds unique to your garden, having evolved to…
13 Key Nutrients for Plants – #1 Nitrogen
Soil testing is an important activity for a successful garden. Soil stewardship is an ongoing process, where you test and amend, grow some stuff, then test, amend and grow…
Stir Fried Cucumber Strips
Here is one of my favorite simple recipes for cucumber, that makes an attractive and delicious dish. You can play around with these ingredients, swapping them for other things. For…
Feeding Cucumbers
Cucumbers are heavy feeders that will deplete your soil unless you follow a feeding program such as outlined here to provide them with the proper nutrition they need to grow…
5 Cucumber Site Essentials
Cucumbers can be very rewarding to grow if you follow these essential site recommendations CUCUMBER SUPPORT Cucumbers are a floppy lot, and really need our help and support. Train plants…
Seed Starting
Don’t seed a partial cell pack with a particular seed – make the whole cell pack one specific seed so when you want to move them to family-based planting area…
Radish (Raphanus sativus)
Radish (Raphanus sativus), which is related to turnip and mustard, is a great source of vitamin C, folic acid, potassium, vitamin B6, riboflavin, magnesium, copper, and calcium. Radishes come in…