As the days lengthen and the sun warms the earth, gardeners everywhere eagerly anticipate the joys of summer planting.
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NOW is the time to plant your Victory Garden. Planting is something I’ve written about quite often on our blog so I didn’t feel like I needed to reinvent the wheel for this blog post. However, I thought it might be helpful to share those posts in one convenient place.
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Rust is a common disease that affects many plants. Bean rust is caused by Uromyces phaseoli typica, and it affects common dry and snap, lima, and scarlet runner beans.
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“That’s one small sprout for plant, one giant leaf for plantkind.”
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I have fond childhood memories of going out for lunch after Sunday church to Dale’s (Duff’s) Smorgasbord in Gallipolis, OH. To me the coolest thing wasn’t the rotating buffet but the salad bar. On the salad bar they had alfalfa sprouts. Being a weird kid the preferred vegetables over sweets, I would always pile my plate high with alfalfa sprouts and those little ears of corn. As a kid, I always wondered how those sprouts were grown.
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As summer begins to wind down toward fall, the spring-planted garden changes character. Once bright green and limber, the foliage darkens, dries, and makes a rasping, rattling sound as you wander through. In the late-summer vegetable garden, your plants are entering the seed making phase and require a little special attention to prolong their productivity.
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