Select garden location. Prepare location [clean, weed, amend] Get seeds or seedlings that you want to plant. [tomatoes, corn, broccoli, etc.] Grandpas garden was a mess!!!!!! So if it wasn’t for me, it wouldn’t have gotten done. Lucky for him he had his handy-dandy grandchild… me! we had to rake, shovel, weed, and fix a […]
Recently, Lamont lost a pepper plant to blight and he reminded me that the Great Potato Famine of Ireland was caused by blight. Then I read an article mentioning monoculture, which is growing a single crop in the same location year after year. (Polyculture is the healthy rotation or mixing plants together, as in companion […]
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In Tucson the season for growing Broccoli has just begun. Plant it between July 15th and October 1, according to the University of Arizona Cooperative Extension Office. It has 4 main types: Large-headed varieties (Belstar is one I just ordered from Johnnyseeds.com), need plenty of space and crowding them reduces head size. Romanesco varieties need […]
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