Harvesting Round and Cylindrical Beets: Two Types of Beets to Grow

Harvesting Round and Cylindrical Beets: Two Types of Beets to GrowBeets are probably one of the best vegetables to have regularly in your diet. Many people are familiar with the standard red round beets like the 'Detroit Dark Red' variety. There are also cylindrical beets that carry the same flavor,...

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Update: Using A Fabric Tent to Stop Cabbage Looper Damage on Your Vegetables: It Works!

Update: Using a Fabric Tent to Stop Cabbage Looper Damage on Your Vegetables(It Works!) The green cabbage looper is often the answer to what is eating holes in your cabbages, kales, collards, kholrabi and other leafy green vegetables. They come from that white psychotic flying moth. It lays eggs...

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Growing Cucumbers Vertically in Sunken Garden Containers

Growing Cucumbers Vertically in Sunken Container GardensSunken containers allow you to concentrate the 'best' soil in one location for the vegetables or in this case the cucumber plants. This can save you money. The bottoms are removed or a large portion is cut out of the container to allow the roots...

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How to Easily Clone Tomatoes and Root Tomato Suckers

How to Easily Clone and Root Tomato SuckersA tomato 'sucker' is essentially a growing tip that will form a full size tomato plant. There are many ways to clone a tomato by rooting a tomato sucker. I show you an extremely easy method to root the sucker in water. You can watch the roots establish and...

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Fennel: Attract the Entire Life Cycle of the Black Swallowtail Butterfly - The Rusted Garden 2013

Fennel: Attract the Entire Life Cycle of the Black Swallowtail Butterfly The herb fennel will attract the entire life cycle of the black swallowtail butterfly. It will host eggs, caterpillars and the chrysalis. You can plant clumps of fennel in your flower garden and the plants will host the...

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From Garden to Grill: Grilling Garden Beets - A New Rusted Garden Video Series

From Garden to Grill: Grilling Garden Beets A New Rusted Garden Video Series(Copyright June 2013)I started a new video series called: From Garden to Grill. I will be grilling vegetables as they mature in the garden this season. Each video will be about 5 minutes long and it will cover harvesting the...

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What is 'Bolting' Lettuce and Why Does It Happen? or My Lettuce is Bitter!

What is 'Bolting' Lettuce and Why Does It Happen? or My Lettuce is Bitter!Lettuce and greens are typically cool weather crops. They like 60 to 70 degree days and cooler nights. While the temperature is cool... your lettuces, endives and spinach happily produce leaves for your garden salads. Great...

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Making Eggshell & Banana Peel Tomato Fertilizer: Blossom End Rot Prevention

Making Eggshell & Banana Peel Tomato Fertilizer: Blossom End Rot PreventionThere is nothing wrong with crushing up few eggshells in a planting hole or composting your banana peels. Eventually it all becomes the same stuff for your garden... nutrients. You can, however, speed up the process...

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Saving Container Tomatoes: Frost, Stress & Purple Stems - Foliar Feeding

Saving Container Tomatoes: Frost, Stress & Purple StemsFoliar Feeding for the Win Tomatoes are resilient. The container tomatoes I am growing on my deck were hit by a late frost that damaged many of their leaves and even growing stems. The frost broke a 100 year record. There was direct damage from...

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How to Use Aspirin (Salicylic Acid) to Trigger Tomato Defenses: Beef Up the Beefsteaks!

How to Use Aspirin (Salicylic Acid) to Trigger Tomato Defenses: Beef Up the Beefsteaks!Tomatoes use salicylic acid to trigger a response called 'systemic acquired resistance' or SAR. This response helps a tomato plant fight off bacteria, fungi and other diseases. This defense response is a naturally...

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How to Get 2 or 3 Harvests from One Loose Leaf Lettuce Plant

How to Get 2 or 3 Harvestsfrom One Loose Leaf Lettuce Plant This is the kind of information that once you know it makes sense. When you are harvesting loose leaf varieties of lettuce, leave the roots in the ground. Cut your leaf lettuce off about 1/2 inch above the ground as to leave the stump and attached...

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A Fabric Tent for Kales & Collards: No More Cabbage Looper Holes!

A Fabric Tent for Kales & Collards:No More Cabbage Looper Holes!I love growing and eating kales and collards. They over-winter in my zone and I get to enjoy them in the spring along with their flowers. I don't like the cabbage looper that eats holes in many leaves and for the last two years I have...

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