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Planting Your Garden
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Holiday Gifts for Gardeners. Gardening Activities For Kids. WHAT SHOULD I PLANT? Choose varieties that do well in your climate. If you live in a cooler northern climate, do not try to grow long-season crops like peanuts or sweet potatoes. Plan for only those vegetables that your family will eat, and only in quantities you can use, preserve, give away, or sell quickly, while fresh. You can grow two crops of many single-crop varieties if you learn to grow and transplant healthy seedlings.
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Raised Vegetable Garden Beds
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Holiday Gifts for Gardeners. Gardening Activities For Kids. ADVANTAGES OF A RAISED BED. Perhaps the most important advantage is greatly reduced soil compaction. Plant roots need air. In an ordinary garden, you can’t avoid stepping in the garden bed occasionally when doing your everyday gardening. A properly designed raised bed garden allows you to do all your gardening from the garden path. The border around a raised bed also creates a block to undesirable plants and weeds. Various studies have shown tha...
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Your Family Garden Harvest
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Holiday Gifts for Gardeners. Gardening Activities For Kids. Keep crops off the ground to prevent spoilage and pest problems. Allow crops to ripen on the vine, but pick immediately when mature. Harvest in the early morning, while it is cool. Handle produce gently to prevent bruising. Remove dirt and outer leaves if necessary, and clean thoroughly. Package, remove from the garden, and cool promptly. Use while fresh for maximum flavor and quality. WHEN SHOULD I HARVEST?
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Planning Your Garden
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Holiday Gifts for Gardeners. Gardening Activities For Kids. WHERE SHOULD I PLANT MY GARDEN? Your garden should be close to home or work and easily accessible. You’ll soon grow tired of commuting to a distant location. If you have no usable soil, you can build open-bottom containers on top of almost anything even driveways, patios, and roofs. See my page on Raised Beds. HOW BIG SHOULD MY GARDEN BE? Available sunny space often dictates the size of your garden. A small, well-tended, sunlit garden will y...
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Gardening Basics
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Holiday Gifts for Gardeners. Gardening Activities For Kids. Gardening Activities For Kids. Getting Kids Involved With Gardening. There are a number of great resources online with provide ideas for fun gardening activities you can do with kids. Here are some website with great ideas for fun kid's gardening activities:. Is one of my favorite website for ideas to get kids involved with gardening. The website Code Name: Mama. Has a long list of activities.
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Gardening Basics
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Holiday Gifts for Gardeners. Gardening Activities For Kids. Holiday Gifts for Gardeners. Holiday gifts mean more when they are unique and focus on the hobbies and interests of the receiver. Here are some great gift ideas for the gardener or nature lover in your life. Burpee Holiday Gift Specials for Cyber Monday. Cyber Monday deal at Burpee.com FREE SHIPPING on orders of $30 or more with code CMA11 this deal is good 11/27-11/28. Amaryllis in Gift Bag.
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Fertilizing Your Garden
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Holiday Gifts for Gardeners. Gardening Activities For Kids. Fertilizers are essential-mineral raw materials from which plants make food. Depending on you location and soil type you may need to add fertilizers to make sure there are the balance of the nutrients plant need in order to grow, flower, and produce fruits and vegetables. You can purchase soil test kits to see if your soil is in need of any of these nutrients. Premium Soil Test Kit 310241. Electronic Soil Test Kit 990. Plants, like people and an...
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When To Plant Your Garden
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Holiday Gifts for Gardeners. Gardening Activities For Kids. WHEN SHOULD I PLANT? Proper planting time depends on your garden’s climate and growing season. Your growing season is related to the time between the last spring frost and the first fall frost. Planting time is determined by (1) the average date of last frost and (2) the hardiness or frost tolerance of the crop you’re planting. Find out the average day of last frost for your garden area from your County Extension Office or a computer database.
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Watering Your Garden
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Holiday Gifts for Gardeners. Gardening Activities For Kids. HELPFUL TIPS ABOUT PLANTS AND WATER. A plant is a continuous water pipe from the tip of the deepest root to the end of the. Tallest leaf. More than 80% of a plant’s weight is water. The plant must have. WHAT IS THE BEST WAY TO WATER? Most plants in the garden do best with about 1 inch of water per week. The best way to really know when plants need more irrigation is to feel the soil and pay attention to your plants. If the soil is dry wh...Whene...