Agriculture
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1 day agoThe Small Farmer's Guide to Succession Sowing
Succession sowing uses timed, spaced plantings to produce multiple harvests, splitting yields between food and revenue while improving over time.
Seedlings are ambitious and will germinate and start growing once pressed into damp soil, shooting toward the nearest light source. However, if they remain in small containers without natural light, they can become root-bound and leggy, eventually collapsing under their own weight.
Onions may not be the prettiest vegetable to grow, but they're certainly one of the most useful. Figuring which items you eat most often is the first thing to consider before planting a vegetable garden, and as a fundamental part of soups, sauces, and salads, who couldn't use more of these easy-to-grow alliums? The only tricky part is that location really matters, as different varieties of onions require different day lengths in order to thrive.
I love fall gardening. Beans, peas, and leafy greens like lettuce and spinach grow better in cool weather and are ready to harvest in about a month. Plus, I find it amazing that certain crops like carrots, beets, and kale develop natural sugars the colder it gets, so they actually taste better after the weather turns chilly. But fall gardening can be tricky. You have to time your planting just right (and be prepared for all types of weather, because who knows whether it'll be snowing or we'll be sweating come Halloween).