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No Onion Bulbs: A Theory - I'm in the Pacific Northwest - Portland, Oregon, so this tale relates to day long onions. For the past couple years I've been alternating on... Leer más
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Eating Fava Bean Leaves - large or small beans? - I planted Windsor fava beans last fall, mostly as a cover crop because I'd be planting other things in those places before the beans matured... Leer más
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Extend Spring onions through the winter? - I planted Copra and Walla Walla onions from seed last spring. The copras are bulbing nicely, as they should by now, but I put the walla Wall... Leer más
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Fresh garlic supposed to be so 'wet' inside? - I tried to wait to harvest my garlic until 1/3 or more leaves were brown. I think I did, but maybe I fudged it a little. Anyway, after a cou... Leer más
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'complete' organic fertilizer (cof) recipe by the npk numbers - A discussion over in the Soil forum(Steve Solomon's COF) got me to thinking about the "complete" organic fertilizer I use in my ga... Leer más
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OK to prune potato vines? - I'm growing my potatoes in raised beds and the vines are huge, sprawling, The Thing that Ate NY-size. They've basically choked off one 3' wi... Leer más
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Cool weather has stopped things.... I think - We've had a week or more of cool-ish weather - highs no higher than the mid-70s. I'm thinking that's the reason the ripening of my numerous ... Leer más
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Fall season preparation - I have 5 raised beds in which I have quite a mix of veggies that were palnted at differnt times. One bed had alot of early season greens tha... Leer más
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Swiss chard: Cut back or remove and replace? - The Bright Lights Swiss Chard I planted in the early spring seems to have run its course. It struggled through a wicked leaf miner infestati... Leer más
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I broke off the end of a bean vine... oops - I broke off the end of one of my green bean vines while overzealously "guiding" it onto the trellis. What will happen with that vi... Leer más
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