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Tips for Planting and Growing Cucumbers
Tips for Planting and Growing Cucumbers

Cucumber plants are ready for planting when 30-38cm (12-15in) high with eight to ten leaves formed, although smaller plants are often set out with great success

Growing Tomatoes: Patio Tomatoes – Growing Outdoor Tomatoes
Growing Tomatoes: Patio Tomatoes – Growing Outdoor Tomatoes

The tomato is probably the heaviest yielding crop per yard of ground that we have in this country, beating even crops like potatoes and onions

Expert Tips for Growing Tomatos Outdoors
Expert Tips for Growing Tomatos Outdoors

Tomatoes are most accommodating plants but when they are to be grown outdoors a really good start under the right conditions is essential to ensure complete

Expert Tips for Tomato Ring Culture Supergrowth
Expert Tips for Tomato Ring Culture Supergrowth

The ring culture of tomatoes or ‘tomato ring culture’ is now widely practised. It is a method which provides controlled conditions of nourishment and water

Expert Tips for Growing Garden Tomatoes – Straw Bale Culture
Expert Tips for Growing Garden Tomatoes – Straw Bale Culture

Among basic advantages of straw-bale cultivation is isolation from soil-borne troubles of which tomato mosaic virus may be among the most destructive

Growing Cucumbers
Growing Cucumbers

Cucumis sativus is frequently grown commercially, like the tomato, in a single cordon, but is unlikely to be so treated by the majority of gardeners.

Growing Cucumbers and Gherkins in the Vegetable Garden
Growing Cucumbers and Gherkins in the Vegetable Garden

Many of the modern outdoor, or ridge, cucumbers grow almost as easily as marrows and so are a welcome addition to a small kitchen garden

15 Impressive Spinach Benefits
15 Impressive Spinach Benefits

The health benefits of spinach include skin care, improved eyesight, healthy blood pressure, stronger muscles, prevention of age-related macular degeneration

Aquaponics Farmers Band Together to Set Their Industry Apart
Aquaponics Farmers Band Together to Set Their Industry Apart

Growers that add fish to their vegetable mix say they're combining the benefits of an ecosystem with the resource-efficiency of an water-based operation

Vitamin E discovery in maize could lead to more nutritious crop
Vitamin E discovery in maize could lead to more nutritious crop

New research has identified genes that control vitamin E content in maize grain - a finding that could lead to improving the nutritional profile of this staple

Iron Sources in Hydroponics : Which One is the Best ?
Iron Sources in Hydroponics : Which One is the Best ?

Definitely one of the most important problems dealing with the stability of hydroponic solutions is the availability of the iron (Fe+2 or Fe+3) ions.

Five ways to increase your seed germination rates
Five ways to increase your seed germination rates

When you start plants from seeds one of the most important things you want to achieve is a very high and fast germination rate.

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