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Hints for Growing Strawberries and Veitchberries
Strawberries Strawberries are another fruit which it is worthwhile to grow because of the better condition in which the fruits can be obtained as compared with those of the market. Unfortunately, Strawberries demand a fair amount of attention and occupy … Continue reading
Growing Loganberries
THE LOGANBERRY originated in the United States. It is maroon in colour and is said to be a cross between a blackberry and a raspberry. When the raspberry is picked its central white plug remains on the cane, but when … Continue reading
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Growing Cucumbers
Cucumbers With cucumbers, plant breeders have now solved three problems. Cucumbers bear male and female flowers separately, and it has always been necessary, when growing the traditional long, smooth, greenhouse or frame cucumbers, to remove all the male flowers. Otherwise … Continue reading
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Growing Cucumbers Indoors
Cucumbers are not the easiest of vegetables to grow, but if you choose the right varieties to start with and give them the regular care they need, you can produce a successful crop at your first attempt. As well as … Continue reading
Tips for Growing Bonsai
Growing Bonsai from Seed There is no such thing as bonsai seed. The seeds used for bonsai are ordinary tree and shrub seeds. If you wanted to try bonsai Chinese quince fruit (Chaenomeles lagenaria), then you should be aware that the plants … Continue reading
How to Grow Lettuce: Lactuca Sativa
Lactuca sativa Although the exact origins of the lettuce are unknown it was certainly known to the Greeks and Romans, and has been grown in Britain since at least the middle of the sixteenth century. It is now the most … Continue reading
Growing Salad Plants
Nearly all the leafy salad vegetables which we grow are members of the Daisy family or Compositae. Their cabbage-like appearance is misleading and the true identity is only confirmed when they run up to flower. Lettuce, endive and chicory are … Continue reading
How to Grow Turnips
Brassica rapa This biennial ‘root’ vegetable — it is mainly swollen hypocotyl (the zone between the true root and the seed leaves or cotyledons) — has been known since prehistoric times. It is grown primarily for the faintly mustard-flavoured ‘root’ … Continue reading
How to Grow Scorzonera
Scorzonera hispanica—Black salsify Like salsify, this vegetable is rarely grown in Britain. It is a hardy perennial, treated as an annual for the black-skinned, white-fleshed edible roots. It has the same culinary-uses as salsify, but was formerly grown also for … Continue reading
How to Grow Salsify
Tragopogon porrifolius – Vegetable Oyster A hardy biennial which is grown as an annual for the fleshy white roots which are ready from October onwards. It is not much grown in Britain but it can be a useful winter vegetable … Continue reading