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Onions and day length
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Have you ever looked through a seed catalog, deciding which onion seed or plants to buy, and been perplexed by the words “long-day” or “short-day” attached to each variety? Or sometimes “intermediate-day” or “day-neutral”? You might just give up in…
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening Tags: Author:Erica, Day Length, Onions
A Swede By Any Other Name
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A Master Gardener friend who recently traveled to the UK brought me back a packet of seeds. Specifically, ‘Gowrie’ rutabaga seeds from a company called Mr. Fothergill’s. Except because these are British seeds, they’re not called rutabaga, they’re called swede….
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening Tags: Author:Erica, botanical names, Eggplant, language, Peppers, Potatoes, Rutabagas, Sweet Potatoes, zucchini
Vegetable garden planning: what doesn’t start from seeds
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As you’re planning your vegetable garden for this year, you’re probably thinking seeds, seeds, seeds. But not everything in the garden needs to begin with seeds. In some cases, plants started by someone else are a convenient or even economical…
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening Tags: Asparagus, Author:Erica, Garden Planning, Garlic, Leeks, Onions, Potatoes, Shallots, Sweet Potatoes
Heatless hot peppers
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I’ve been using this current cold snap to get my seed orders together, and one thing I am planning to grow this season is a few not-so-hot peppers. Not in the “yuck, far from delicious” sense, but in the “surprisingly…
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening Tags: Author:Erica, Peppers
My Accidental Taro Adventure
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I grew taro this year pretty much by accident. Here’s how it happened. This spring I gave a talk on root vegetables to a lovely group of seniors. For this talk, I like to buy a bunch of widely assorted…
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening Tags: Author:Erica, taro
Summer vegetable review 2017
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We’re having a remarkably warm October here in Maryland, and some of the summer crops are still producing, but really, the season is over and it’s just a matter of time before it all goes in the compost heap. This…
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening Tags: Author:Erica, Beans, Peppers, Squash, Tomatoes
The Three Sisters Garden
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This year at the Derwood Demo Garden we acquired some new planting space, which I decided to use for a growing technique we just haven’t had the square footage for in many years: a Three Sisters garden. Growing corn, beans,…
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening Tags: Author:Erica, Beans, Corn, Squash, Three Sisters, Watermelon
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