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Impatient? Tips for a quicker vegetable harvest
Vegetable gardening is an exercise in patience. Sweet potatoes can take more than 100 days to ripen; some tomato and watermelon varieties require five months.
Impatient? Tips for a quicker vegetable harvest
Vegetable gardening is an exercise in patience. Sweet potatoes can take more than 100 days to ripen; some tomato and watermelon varieties require five months.
Grafted veggies are next season's celebrity seeds
In many of the seed catalogs arriving soon in mailboxes, the headliners will be grafted vegetables, in which one or more different varieties grow from a single rootstock. Tomatoes seem to be the grafted transplants most frequently offered, providing greater disease tolerance, bigger harvests…
Valparaiso community garden was almost a no-grow
VALPARAISO | It was beginning to look like someone put a curse on the city's effort to start community gardens to grow vegetables for needy families.
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It's tomato planting season
It's time to daydream about fresh BLT sandwiches and large slices of homegrown tomato on just-made garden salads.
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