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North American; includes but not limited to vegetables. No pictures, a few line drawings, buckets of text and assumes you know (or will spend the time to learn) the scientific terminology. … Royal Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Gardening - British, includes but not limited to vegetables, nice color pictures. …

Food you like to eat. I would never grow peppers - I never eat peppers, I don't like peppers, QED. Many other people like, grow, and eat peppers. Food that's better grown at home. I would not grow sw …

1) Lime and manure are best done at different times. Best would have been to do the lime in the fall - putting the lime on NOW would be better than waiting any longer. 2) You simply can't tell what p …

Choose your garlic patch and plant it now. Mulch that. Straw is ideal if you have it, shredded leaves are OK, whole leaves mat down a bit too much, and also blow around too much before they mat down. …

Lesson the first - plant more than you need, and hold some in reserve. If everything goes well, you have plants to give away. If things go wrong, you have spare plants. The transition from indoors, w …

If the first one is, in fact asparagus, it's a very small shoot that was too small to harvest that has leafed out. The middle picture is harvestable, the last is past harvesting for this year. The sec …

Alternatives? Dirt. Make your raised beds by simply defining where the paths are and tossing that soil up onto the remaining bed area, and work with a rake. Pile on any amendments to the bed areas onl …

Strawberries and blueberries are both fruits that are fairly shallow-rooted. Using the staging allows multiple layers of plants in the same space. Lettuces are also fairly shallow rooted; But other th …

There are commonly available adapters to convert from a pop-up to driplines. Some even include a pressure regulator for the dripline, or valves per dripline. Complexity and price vary, mostly in tande …

Yes, you can fill it in; depending what you're going for, it's perfectly fine for establishment, less perfect if going for "blanched white", but establishment seems to fit your description.

I don't think there's anything "wrong" with that plant. This appears to be the fairly common across many different plants "new leaves showing their native color until more chlorophyll develops and the …

The tomatoes stand a chance if you get enough roots/dirt. IME, odds are pretty slim for the corn and carrots. Neither are commonly transplanted and that's because transplanting them is rarely successf …

One "trick" for a more dig-resistant fence is to bury the wire down and out. So if you go down a foot, also go out a foot, and bend the bottom of the wire out a foot. If the animal would dig deeper th …

Yes. I've never had drip irrigation, but I have used plastic much some years. If watering is needed, pour it in the holes where the plants are (or I suppose you could make other holes for it, but I ne …

As far as the plants are concerned, it's still dark at night, unless you spent the price of a house on some very abnormally large and bright solar lights.