Tag: gardening
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The Joy of Growing Your Own Food: A Gardener’s Journey
Nothing makes you feel more productive or adequate than growing your own food. Tasting the fruits of your labors. The happiness of successfully growing a plant til harvest is indescribable. When it doesn’t work, it’s heartbreaking. Your plants become riddled with infestations of killer bugs or plagues. Or you have just made a stupid mistake.…
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The Truth About Real Wasabi: A Caretaker’s Journey
Fake wasabi dominates restaurants; real wasabi is rare and tricky to grow. Author shares personal failures in cultivating wasabi plants.
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The watermelon experiment!
I really wanted to try planting bush baby watermelons a couple years back…. So i directly sowed some into our awful back yard dirt. Nothing grows in it, it’s compacted clay, and the sprouts have a hard time coming through. If by chance they make it up, they’re small shriveled and usually die. I’ve been…
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Do not water plants after frost!!
Dear Caretakers, First off let me tell you I don’t fully have a grasp on chill hours and if you’d like to correct me, I look forward to reading the comments. I wanted to grow artichokes this year but the problem was that artichokes need so many chill hours/ frost time to germinate and blossom.…
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Understanding Pollination: Key to Plant Reproduction
Pollination is a critical component of a plants reproduction cycle. Whereas runners, rooting trimmings and cuttings, separating clumps, bulbs and tubers are a way to reproduce a clone or grow the exact same plant…. Pollination rather is the act of two plants coming together to create seeds that will grow into a completely different plant.…
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