The Harvest of 'Salad Rose' Radishes: A Great Radish!

Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on PinterestFollow The Rusted Garden on Twitter Twitter will be used for Q and A, Reminders and Gardening TipsThis was by far my most successful radish. It has a nice radish flavor without being to spicy. I grew about 8  variety...

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Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on PinterestFollow The Rusted Garden on Twitter Twitter will be used for Q and A, Reminders and Gardening TipsThis is a tour of my garden as of the end of May. It shows you most of my garden and I present a bunch of gardening tips to help you with your garden. Please check it out and spread the word. Thanks so much for visiting...

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Use Cedar Shims for Plant and Tomato Markers

Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on PinterestFollow The Rusted Garden on Twitter Twitter will be used for Q and A, Reminders and Gardening Tips I am in the process of fixing up The Rusted Garden. I hope to do a video tour today. One thing I do is use cedar...

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2 of 2: Planting a Tomato Disease Barrier Raised Bed Garden

Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on PinterestFollow The Rusted Garden on Twitter Twitter will be used for Q and A, Reminders and Gardening TipsPlanting a Tomato Disease Barrier Raised Bed Garden(Part 2 of 2)The concept of a Disease Barrier Raised Bed Garden is...

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1 of 2: Tomato Disease Manangment and Creating A Disease Barrier Raised Bed

Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on PinterestFollow The Rusted Garden on Twitter Twitter will be used for Q and A, Reminders and Gardening TipsI hope everything is growing well in your gardens. I have already seen powdery mildew on my hyssop plants. They have...

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Video: Tomato Disease Management - Newspaper Barrier and Pruning

Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on PinterestFollow The Rusted Garden on Twitter Twitter will be use for Q&A, Reminders and Gardening Tips   This is a video that shows you how to manage potential diseases on tomato plants by creating a newspaper ground barrier and by pruning leaves. It is the 3rd of 6 videos showing the same tomato plant and how to...

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Video: Using Baking Soda to Manage Powdery Mildew in the Vegetable Garden

Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on PinterestImportant: On June 20th my tomato plants suffered some phytotoxicity which is a fancy way of saying the leaves got burned by a chemical.  I have been applying baking soda at 2 tablespoons per gallon of water since April and it has been effective. However... that was when temperatures were really mid 80's...

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Heirloom Roadtrip to Pennsylvania

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of PA Tourism for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine. Not everyone finds heirloom seeds and plants to be an exciting part of a vacation. I'm not saying you can make a week of seed searching into a vacation but I know Pennsylvania...

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Video: How to Boost Your Tomatoes Defenses Using Aspirin

Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on PinterestI use aspirin to boost my tomatoes defenses. I works! I have been using it for years. The aspirin mimics a hormone that tricks the tomato into thinking it is being attacked. The disease response starts and the tomato beefs up. (a tomato joke)I will be doing a lot with tomatoes this year. Many videos are on the way....

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Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on PinterestThis is my second video for peas. The first video showed you how to plant peas in 5 gallon buckets. This video shows you what you will harvest if you plant container peas. It is a great way to grow peas. A more extensive blog about peas is coming soon. This is just the vid...

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Warm Season Vegetable Crops: A List of Sun Lovers

Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on PinterestIt is warm season crop time in Maryland Zone 7. Warm season is typically defined as 70 to 90+ degree days. These vegetables don't like cool days or cool nights. The nights need to be nearly 60 degrees or warmer. Temperatures below 55 degrees will inhibit growth of these vegetables and can harm normal growth....

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Some Flowers Around The Rusted Garden

Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on Pinterest Flowers are great to have around the vegetable garden. Aside from beauty, they bring in beneficial insects that every gardener wants. A mix of bulbs, perennials and annuals will keep your garden blooming. My rose...

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How to Make Kale Chips: A Healthy Green

Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on PinterestKale Chips Freshly Picked - The Rusted GardenWell you might have the tendency to over-plant your greens like I do. One great way to manage kale is to dry it out in the oven and make kale chips. It taste great assuming...

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Consider a Sunken Container Vegetable Garden this Summer

Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on PinterestI originally posted this last year. Check the pictures out from bottom to top. I just planted the containers for this season. A sunken container garden is a great addition to your standard garden. Try it out!Cucumbers...

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Vegetable Gardening Tip #10 for 2012: What Does 10-15-20 (fertilizer) Mean?

Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on PinterestGardening leads to fertilizing. The basics... Fertilizer is broken down into 2 categories. Macronutrients and Micronutrients. You are most familiar with the Macronutrient numbers. A bag of fertilizer may read 10-15-20 and that represents the amount of Macronutrients in the product. In order- it is Nitrogen, Phosphorus...

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Looking For Member Gardening Related Articles

Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on PinterestLet's face it, a lot of gardeners coming through my blog are full of information that would help us make a better vegetable garden.I would be glad to post articles you write with links to your blog or site.  Just send me a reply below and I will get in touch with you.The Guidelines:Not too short or to long1-3...

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Warm Weather is Here in Zone 7: Time to Plant...

Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on PinterestThe season is moving from cool weather crops to warm  weather crops. You will probably notice a lot of your cool weather vegetables bolting (flowering). This typically signals the end of  the run for them. Lettuce can become bitter and other plants stop growing the parts we want. You might have time for...

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Tending Container Potoates: Back-Filling to Increase Yield!

Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on Pinterest Growing potatoes in containers works. This video shows you the process of back-filling the container once the potato stems grow. The idea is to fill the container with soil, hay or similar to about 1/2 to 3/4 the stems growth. You do this several times as the stems grow. I was actually a little late in the video....

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How to Tend, Prune and Remove Suckers from a Young Tomato

Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on Pinterest I am continuing to make videos. This video is about tending and training a young tomato. It will show you how to remove suckers, prune lower branches to begin creating a disease barrier and other basic care. The tomato was in the hot-house tomato cage for 4 weeks. It grew nicely!...

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More Cool Weather Crops and What's Going on in the Rusted Garden

Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on PinterestI will be shooting several videos this weekend. One will demonstrate how to prune and manage a young tomato. This will include creating a disease barrier. I will be showing you how to tend your 12 inch potato plants...

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Lettuces Planting Methods and Cool Weather Crops

Visit The Rusted Garden's YouTube Video Channel Follow The Rusted Garden on InterestHere is the video describing a couple different methods for planting lettuces - a cool weather crop. Below are updated pictures of the progress of the lettuce as well as pictures of other cool weather crops. Remember...

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