Cabbage has been a popular winter vegetable that takes time to fully mature. Early cabbage varieties are more vulnerable to splitting as compared to the longer maturing kinds. However, it depends on the weather conditions too. For preventing splitting, it is better to harvest cabbage when its head is firm. Most gardeners harvest cabbage due to the versatility of fresh use.

Cabbage does well if you store it well. If you create the right environment for cabbage, it stays fresh for weeks and even months. Here, we are going to explore how to store cabbage in the best way. However, if you have a root cellar at home, you can use that space to store cabbage for the winter. So, have a look at some storage tips here!

You must have surely come across several lip-smacking dishes of the very popular Brussels sprouts. They are very hard to earn delicacy though as they grow very slowly. However, if you are patient enough, you can get ready for harvesting Brussels sprouts at home with our help.

Let us now give you all info for cultivating a bountiful Brussels crop.

People always look for vegetables which not only have a sweet taste but also want to use them as an alternative of medicines. You will be able to find a number of vegetables which are full of vitamins and calcium which are suggested by doctors to eat to make immunity and other internal systems more stable. “Rattlesnake beans” is one of them. You will enjoy multiple types of vitamins and calcium with the sweetest taste. The natural and organic taste of the beans makes them perfect for you to use.

The rattlesnake beans are also known as “Green beans” and “French Beans”. These are cultivated in northeastern and western the United States. However, it can also be found in multiple other regions of the world. The beans have a very sweet taste.

There are approximately more than 200 types of beans. The rattlesnake pole beans are one of them. The beans are very famous and can found on dining tables, too. The beans are added in different types of dishes, but these are also served as fresh along with a salad.

Timing is pivotal to harvesting garlic, perhaps more than most other Allium plants, including the one we are all familiar with – the onion. That is the reason we have crafted this article for you, dedicating it solely to the intricacies and nuances of knowing when to harvest hardneck garlic at just the right time.

In this quest, our focus as you might have noted is on the hardneck garlic variant. Are things very different in case of softneck or other variants of garlic? Actually no; at the same time, hardneck varieties are among the most sought after kinds of garlic, for reasons we will describe later in the article.

Accordingly, it only made sense that we placed special emphasis on aspects related to harvesting hardneck garlic in particular.

At this stage, the first important thing to do is to explain the very process of hilling potatoes (unless you are already familiar with it) since that will help you appreciate the rest of the article a whole lot better.

Essentially, hilling potatoes refers to the process of adding additional organic material such as soil to the budding stem of the plant in a manner that it encourages the growth of additional potatoes. 

 You see potato tubers primarily form around the base of the plant. At the same time, these tubers do not do well when exposed directly to sunlight. Therefore, when you “hill” the base of the plant, you allow budding tubers to form and grow effectively.

The end result of all this effort is that your overall yield of potatoes – from the same crop that you planted, increases exponentially. Globally, this is the crux of hilling potatoes – to maximize yield from each planting of the crop.

The guinep is an exotic fruit native to the Caribbean region and the northern parts of South America. Over time, it has been grown in other places too which include southern Florida, California, Israel, Hawaii, and the Philippines to name a few.

Unlike some other fruits of its ilk which may grow on bushes or shrubs, the guinep fruit grows on full-fledged guinep trees that can go as high as 100 feet, often rendering fruit picking a remarkable challenge! These trees grow best in warm, tropical climates. As a corollary, they do not grow well in places which do not uniformly have such climate.

The guinep has over time been known by a number of different names. Scientifically, it is known as Melicoccus bijugatus. Some other names used to refer to the same tree – and thus to the fruit that it bears, include Spanish lime, chenet, quenepe, limoncillo (not to be confused with Limoncello, the lemon liqueur produced in southern Italy), mamón, kinnip, and talpa jacote, among others.

We know that cold is not good for the tomatoes and if you planted your crop in the late season, then it’s a must for you to know how to ripen tomatoes indoors. To ripen the tomatoes inside may seem like coaxing, but it is the only option to save them withering and die out totally. In this article, we are going to help you learn how to ripen tomatoes in the house for getting the best out of even that late-season plantation.

With the natural holding larger space in the health industry, a lot of people look for storing their favorite fruits and vegetables for continued usage. One such favorite vegetable is beetroot that you’d like to consume year-round so we will tell you how to freeze beets. The beets are the root vegetables that can be grown super easily as well as preserved too for long.

The strong and earthy flavor of the beets along with its red color is what makes them a staple for many colorful dishes. So if you wonder that can beets be frozen then read this article as we tell you how can you freeze beets.

Most of the time, if a blueberry bush is not flourishing well in a garden, then the soil is to blame. If the pH value of your soil is high, the bush would not grow. For this, you need to test the pH level of your level. If it’s high, then lowering it down could make a big difference to how well your berries grow. Keep on reading this article to know about soil preparation for your blueberry plants and also, how to make soil acidic for blueberries.

What do azaleas, rhododendrons, and blueberries have in common? They all like acidic soil. For keeping your tiny blueberry patch in productive, happy health, every spring you need to pour acidifying halos around shrubs. If your soil is acidic naturally, having a pH 4.6-5.5, then you are good to go if blueberries are concerned. If the soil is sweet or alkaline, meaning the pH is higher than 6.0, you have to amend the soil.

Vegetable gardening is not something for people with a faint heart. You still have to care for your garden even after nurturing the tiny seedlings into vigorous, big food machines. Apart from the weather, wildlife also poses a great threat to home-based crops. Pests are a part of horticulture and shrewd gardeners could organically control most moochers effortlessly. But, some invaders cause so much damage quickly that they emerge into the mythical ground of lawn lore. For tomato lovers, a few pests loom bigger than tomato hornworm eggs.

This green caterpillar with white eggs eviscerates tomato plants rapidly, leaving you little time to intervene. Despite their well-earned notoriety, hornworms are pretty beatable if you know how to react and what to search for. So, here’s everything that you need to know to deal with tomato hornworm eggs.