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Alice Martin

Planteresting Things

Space-saving rain gutters are great on a south-facing exterior wall--use for shallow-rooted plants such as lettuces, herbs, strawberries and such.

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How to grow more peppers per plant -- Spray with an Epsom salt solution at the appropriate time. Read more here...

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High-Yield Strawberry Production --If you want lots of good-sized berries, pinch off all flowers/fruit the first flowering season of NEW plants. This puts all the energy into the root system and the plant will get huge. Also, clip the runners every week throughout the growing season so the energy goes into fruit production and not making more baby plants ("daughters"). Keep the soil acid, fertilize at the right time, use a straw mulch, and you will be come a strawberry-growing expert!

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Plant Raspberries this Spring -- Grow your raspberries on a trellis system in a raised garden box. I would only do one row per box with the box being half this width making it much easier to pick from both sides.

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There is a lot of fun information about the lost skills of gardening in this new book by Caleb Warnock. You can find it at Costco stores and on Amazon.com.

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Perfect Edging - Using an edger, cut your initial line, and then pull out the clumps by hand. See how it is done in this article. Done monthly, it will keep your yard from having the ragged edge look.

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Pruning Suckers off Tomato Plants - This picture says it all. Prune the new growth that occurs between the main stem and the branch. This will send the energy to fruit production and not foliage. Do this for indeterminate tomatoes, but not determinate tomato plants. Read and find out more here.

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Four Ways to Remove Unwanted Sod -- I like how they include the method of using a mulch such as newspapers. Check out my pin on Lasagna gardening if you want to create a new garden on top of your existing sod.

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Want Big Onions? -- Get your onion plant in the ground as far in advance of June 21st as possible. This gives the plant a long time to develop a large green top, which is the key to developing a large bulb in the summer. Grow your onions from seed under lights and then set them out in the garden no later than April 15th. You can buy sets or bulbs--I have had better luck with sets. This video shows you how to plant them.

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Open Pollinated Seeds (Heirloom) -- Plant only non-GMO, organic seed and you will be able to keep reproducing certain varieties for decades as you save seed each year. Seeds of Change, Baker Seed, SeedSavers.org, and a few others carry this type of seed.

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Why you should grow Swiss Chard -- Easy to grow and it lasts all summer in the garden! Put it in your green smoothies!

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Grow your own Sweet Potatoes! -- (Also known as yams). Prepare your own slips or buy them from a seed company. Have fun!

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Keep Monsanto OUT of your Veggie Patch -- Why we need to use open-pollinated/heirloom seeds in our gardens. Since there is no copyright on them, you can save seed from them from year to year and be truly self-sufficient in your food production.

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How to Make a Bean Tipi -- You will need seven, 9' long bamboo poles and some twine. Simple and fun.

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Create new herb plants from cuttings, then transplant to soil and then outside or inside.

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Parisian carrots...bite-sized.

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What a great way to align your seeds before you plant them in the ground...especially for small ones like carrots and such. Just lay the homemade seed tape in your garden where you want it, and sprinkle with a little soil. The seed will stay put until it sprouts.

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Recycling Green Onions...Cut off the part just above the roots and plant in soil or set in water, and let it grow back again!

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Grow your own ginger...great article on how to do this so that you can have ginger on hand when you cook.

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How many plants per square foot? Even though this chart shows how many vegetables you can plant in a 12" pot, the same can go for a square foot of gardening space.

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Use your fence to grow your vegetables vertically. I bought some 6' tall deer netting from a local nursery and stapled it along the inside of my wooden fence. It has lasted for years and I grow tomatoes, peas, beans, melons, and cucumbers on it.

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Recycling Celery -- Cut off the bottom after use, and put in a dish of water to sprout, then plant in the ground as seen in the photos. I have grown celery the past two years from seed (it thrives in very moist soil) and it was greener and taller than anything I have bought at the store. Now I will recycle it from now on...

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No Dig Potatoes -- Great video showing you how to grow your potatoes on top of your lawn using the no-dig method!

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