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Growing onions from an onion
I would like to experiment on growing onions form an onion, instead of buying each year seeds, sets or little plants.
I heard that planting one onion does not immediately gives more onions. Opposite ...
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Zone 4b: When should I start planting vegetable garden seedlings?
When should I start planting seedlings for the vegetable garden that we're going to start this year?
As the question says, I live in zone 4b and we're planning on zone specific vegetables & ...
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How long does it take to start sweet potato slips?
@Om Patange asked this in a comment on this sweet potato question and I'm curious about the answer:
How long does each step [in starting sweet potato slips] take? I ask to know how long before ...
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Is it safe to use vegetables which have experienced several frosts?
Most people are aware that once you've had foods out of the freezer and allowed them to thaw, you shouldn't put them back in your freezer.
But what about frost hardy plants like leeks? I've just ...
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How do I know when to harvest my potatoes?
I'm sure I've heard before that the time to harvest potatoes is when the flowers fall off. Is that right or is it more complicated than that? For example, does it differ based on climate or variety, ...
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Why does my sweet potato have stunted growth with wide, flattened stems and dense leaves?
My sweet potato plant has a severely widened and flattened stem and grows like a band, with dense leaves and stunted growth. What is wrong with it?
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Should I earth up my radishes to prevent them from being eaten or should I pull them out?
My back yard lacks a bit of sunshine so things don't grow as fast, but they do grow.
I've recently planted radishes for the first time and they have already started pushing out of the ground, however ...
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How can I grow my own sweet potato starts?
I have always used pre-grown sweet potato slips, but since the source of sweet potatoes I have been using is unreliable, I am looking for how to grow my own in fairly large quantities. How should I ...
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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 ...
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Why were my parsnips fat with a woody core?
The last (and only) time I tried growing parsnips ("Harris Model") a couple of years ago, they ended up much "fatter" than the parsnips I've typically seen in the store and in pictures. Instead of ...
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Can I harvest beetroot early as “micro beetroots”?
I bought a pack of beetroot seeds today, but there are a lot more than I thought (250). Seems like farm sort of quantities far more than my window sill can hold.
Anyway, I had the idea to grow them ...
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Should I knock over the tops of onions when they get to a certain height?
I was told two years ago that it is a good idea to knock over the top of an onion plant to encourage it to grow bigger in the middle. That worked good two years ago, but it didn't work at all last ...
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Why don't my radishes swell up?
When I grow radishes, I find that some of them don't swell up to form the globe I expect; instead the root stays thin. These are planted in the same bed and at the same time as radishes that do ...
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Crop rotation theory v. practice
Every guide to growing vegetables will have an early section on rotating roots, brassicas and legumes. There might even be a little diagram with neat evenly spaced and sized areas marked out for each ...
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How do I grow sweet potatoes in a pot?
I planted some attractive sweet potato vines in a 6 inch deep pot -- about 1.5 ft in diameter. I didn't expect them to grow extensively. However, with watering regularly, they certainly are growing ...
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Why are we instructed not to use manure before planting carrots?
It's said that we shouldn't use manure when preparing ground intended for carrots. Is it that carrots don't thrive on manure, or is it that they fork and splinter too much?
What about other roots? ...
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How do I grow root vegetables in pots/grow-bags?
We have a flat (apartment) with no garden, but would love to grow root vegetables such as potatoes and carrots. Is it possible to grow these in a pot, container or grow-bag, or do they need too much ...
