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There is a way to get the right moisture level by sealing in a jar with salt and water. The proportion of salt to water makes it work but I don't know what the proportion is. It is probably published somewhere if you wanted to look for it.

I get about ten big bell peppers per plant. And many, many dozens of jalapeño, banana, Italian sweet, and mulato islena per plant. I have a fairly short growing season and very good soil. I read somewhere that you get more production when you pick the first ones as soon as they reach close to...

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Published in "Nature Cities." Volume 1, Issue 1: January 2024. Great advertising/marketing, huh? Yes, it says to grow 90% flowers instead of vegetables in order to outperform conventional ag. Because gardens are more climate friendly than conventional ag unless you count the "carbon cost" of...

Hopefully, someone who has done it more often will answer. I tried it last year. I started the long-day onion seeds when I started the peppers seeds. It was about the second week of March. I transplanted the onions about the end of April or the first part of May if I remember right. I got...

I have planted current tomatoes for about four years now. Some websites say they are the same thing as spoon tomatoes. What do you want to know?

Cool! Bachelor buttons are edible. I didn't know. They are "added to salads more for color than flavor" but that is okay with me. It is still variety. Yes, I am now going through the seed catalogue seriously.

They will be attracted by the color even if they can't get to stamens or the stamens are not functional as is often the case with double flowers.

I get Disco yellow. The Disco series comes in yellow, orange, red, and marietta colors. The marietta color is the second picture here (sorry for the picture quality, it is as pretty as the others if you like that color), I don't see marietta in the Park's picture. E and R seed company carries...

Yes, mildly enough you don't need to worry about them being invasive. But then they don't flower as early. I don't think it matters for the beetles and the plant itself is fairly pretty. If I set out seedlings, they also get a good start before the hot, dry weather sets in. The plants from...

The bees do much better with single blooms. Double blooms have become much more common but the singles can still be found, at least as seeds. Around here, I find single blossom marigolds at only one retailer of the five or six retailers I check. I've begun starting my own because they are soooo...

They (four o'clocks) are not hardy here. I start them inside when I start tomatoes. I think they taste bad to most species. My chickens scratch around under them quite often but do not eat them.

You might try four o'clocks. Just don't expect them to make any difference the first year. We went from picking 100's of JB per session many times a day (we counted sometimes) for the whole season before planting the four o'clocks and the first year we planted them to seeing a dozen or so over...

It is what my mom and grandmas gave us. Not that we had much trouble sleeping unless we were sick, so I searched it in case it helped with the being sick rather than sleeping per se. The results said it does help with sleep separate from cold symptoms. Something to do with releasing melatonin...

Honey, if you can have bees.

Yep. They were soooooo pretty in the rain really late into the fall this year. This is just a tiny bit of why I like them but I still smile about this. Pictures don't do it justice. They just glowed

Plans will likely change over the next few weeks. So far, I'm looking at expanding salad greens the most. Specifically corn salad, purslane, more/different lettuce varieties, maybe Japanese mountain spinach. And paying more attention to radishes - smaller numbers planted more often and maybe...

We tried celery this past summer. I read, too late, that it is very temperature sensitive as it germinates and begins to grow. It lives but is bitter (as in stays bitter, I think) if it doesn't like the temperature or maybe it was temperature swings more than actual temperature. I will look it...

We discovered broccoli won't form a head if it is crowded. I read about and the same variety the next year formed beautiful heads, and big secondary heads. The third and fourth heads were respectable. We kept cutting it into winter although by the end we were getting dozens of tiny heads per...