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Seed Saving Chart: Which Vegetables Are Easy to Save
Beans, peas, lettuce and tomatoes are the easiest vegetable seeds to save. A chart of 17 crops with pollination, isolation distance, wet or dry processing and years viable, plus how to clean, dry and store what you save.
How to Start Cabbage Seeds Indoors
Sow cabbage seeds indoors 8 to 6 weeks before your last frost and plant them out 4 to 2 weeks before it. Germination days by soil temperature, cool growing, hardening off and fall start weeks.
Succession Planting Chart: How Often to Sow Each Crop
How often to sow each crop again for a steady harvest, and when to make the last sowing, counted in weeks before your first fall frost. Sixteen crops, with extension intervals and planner timing.
How Many Tomatillo Plants per Square Foot?
One tomatillo plant per 4 square feet, a 2 x 2 foot block with plants 24 inches apart and a stake or cage. Plant at least two, since tomatillos are not self-fruitful.
How to Start Basil Seeds Indoors
Sow basil seeds 5 to 4 weeks before your last frost and plant them out 3 weeks after it. Germination days from extension guides, warmth, the temperatures where cold damage starts, and how to pinch seedlings so they branch.
How to Store Beets for Winter: Fridge, Damp Sand or a Pit
Beets keep 4 to 6 months cold and humid, with the greens cut to 1 inch and the tail left on. Here is how to store them in the fridge, in damp sand, or in a pit, why the bed is only a short hold, and what to do with the greens.