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When to harvest chilis? What happens if I don't? How can I store them?
My last chili experiment was some 5 years ago, when the dried results started to use up. So I went to buy 2 chili plants (habanero & jalapeno, both F1 hybrids) this European spring - and the ...
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How should I store my chili seeds for planting next year?
Should I let the chili mature on the plant, cut it open and take the seeds, dry them and store in a cold, dark and dry place? Or is there more to it than that.
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How to store (Iris)-rhizomes?
I dug out Iris rhizomes yesterday in order to put them somewhere else, I was surprised by their quantity and couldn't put all of them to their new destination due to space limitation.
So, now I have ...
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Storing apples - how do I improve my success rate?
Here's my apple store a few weeks after I put them into storage:
As you can see, already quite a high failure rate. And even for the apples which still look sound as of today, are they still at ...
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In which part of the fridge should muscaris (grape hyacinths) be stored?
I put my muscaris in the part of the fridge where I store fruits, but I heard that some people store them in the freezer where it's much colder.
However, won't the freezer freeze them to death? Which ...
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Can bulbs be stored in the fridge for over 60 days?
I stored some bulbs in the fridge a while ago. Now it is already the 50th day. I am wondering, if I store it longer than the recommended duration (60 days), would anything happen to them?
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Should I lift my onion crop?
Looks like my onion crop is done (end of August). The green part has died right back and I've got just the bulb sat a little way into the soil.
I don't have a good rodent-proof cool dry dark outdoor ...
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How and for how long can home-grown onions be stored?
How should I prepare home-grown white or yellow onions for long-term storage?
This answer says the ideal conditions for storing onion sets for re-planting and storing mature onions is the same, but ...
