The Cheap Vegetable Gardener
The post Let It Bolt: Free Seed from Lettuce and Cilantro appeared first on The Cheap Vegetable Gardener. Every July I watch at least one person in the neighborhood Facebook group post a sad photo of their lettuce sending up a two-foot flower stalk, asking what went wrong. And every July I have to...
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The post Cure and Store Garlic the Cheap Shed Way appeared first on The Cheap Vegetable Gardener. I pulled my hardneck garlic last week and my neighbor immediately asked if I was going to braid it. I told her I wasn’t. She seemed disappointed. I was not. Garlic braids look great in a kitchen...
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The post 17 Zucchini: What to Do Before They Escape appeared first on The Cheap Vegetable Gardener. It’s July in Redmond and I have a problem. Specifically, I have seventeen zucchini on my counter, three more hiding under leaves the size of a kindergartner, and my daughters have stopped making eye...
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The post Direct Sow Asian Greens in Late Summer for Fall appeared first on The Cheap Vegetable Gardener. If you want to direct sow Asian greens successfully, the secret is timing. Late July through mid-August is the window, not April. I used to only think about Asian greens in spring. Plant...