How to Grow Snow Peas: Best Step-by-Step Guide
Snow peas are delicious in stir-fry recipes and soup. Snow pea pods are typically harvested before the peas in the pods are allowed to develop.
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Category: Garden Guides
How to Grow Cantaloupe
Cantaloupe is sweet tasting and high in vitamins C, A, B6, folate, niacin and potassium, which makes it a healthy snack for satisfying a sweet tooth.
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How to Save Arugula Seeds – Seed Saving on the Homestead
You can plant arugula continuously year after year without ever buying seeds again by saving your seed from your harvest.
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How to Grow Watermelons
Watermelons grown in a home garden promise to be a sweet, thirst-quenching treat at harvest time. Typically, watermelons are grown indoors and then transplanted into an outdoor garden area after the last frost date has passed.
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How to Grow Wine Cap Mushrooms
One of the easiest mushrooms to start growing at home is the Wine Cap mushroom, also known as King Stropharia. Wine cap mushrooms grow as big as portobello mushrooms, and have a meaty texture and taste. The spawn can be grown on a bed of wood chips and soil, which makes them a lot easier for the beginning grower compared to some species of mushrooms that have to be inoculated into logs.
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How to Grow Mulberries
Mulberries are often underestimated as an edible berry. They may not share spots by the strawberries, blueberries and raspberries that line the supermarkets, but they are excellent preserved as a jam, cooked in recipes or to enjoy just as a handful. Mulberries are also great because they grow abundantly on trees.
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How to Grow Ginseng – Step-by-Step Guide to Grow the Best Ginseng
Wild American ginseng root has sold for as much as $350 per pound. Today, wild ginseng is a protected plant and it is illegal to harvest in many states. However, you can grow and harvest your own ginseng.
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First Shiitake Mushroom Harvest: Growing Great Mushrooms
This spring we inoculated hardwood logs with shiitake mushroom spawn plugs. We received our first harvest this week and threw them in the smoker with our sirloin steak. De-e-elicious.
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How to Plant Potatoes
Potatoes are one of the earliest vegetables adapted to gardens, and are considered as important of a staple crop as rice or wheat. They are a cool-season vegetable. Potatoes are started from the “eyes” of larger potatoes, which are cut into pieces or whole small potatoes are used.
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