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Planting Vine Crops
National Gardening Association — You can plant vining crops in rows, hills, or mounds depending on the layout of your garden. A row is seeds planted at regular intervals in a straight line. After preparing the soil and working it one last time on planting day, mark the row by ...More…
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Jump Starting the Melon Season
National Gardening Association — Melons are notoriously slow, undependable germinators. Here are some tricks that can give you a jump on the season. These tips work for all the vine crops. Paper Towel Sprouting. Moisten four paper towels folded back into one. Sprinkle 12 seeds ...More…
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Soil Prep for Vine Crops
National Gardening Association — Vine crops are particular when it comes to their place in the garden, but they're quite flexible when it comes to the soil itself. They'll flourish in sandy or clay soil, or just about anything in between. Till or spade the soil several times ...More…
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Transplanting Vine Crops
National Gardening Association — There are advantages and disadvantages to transplanting vine crops that you should consider before making up your mind to transplant or start seeds right in the ground. Transplanting gives you a head start of a month or more on the season, and it ...More…
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Ripening Vine Crops
National Gardening Association — You don't have to worry about these vegetables going by before harvest time. The seeds inside them won't grow large enough to trigger the plant's stop-production mechanism until there's plenty of fruit already on the vines. Wait until all ...More…
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Making Pumpkins Last
National Gardening Association — Winter squash are designed to last a long time in storage. But some basic principles will get you started with confidence Winter squashes keep best if stored in a cool, dry, dark spot. Pumpkins also store well for months at a time. The other ...More…
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Into the Kitchen: Squash and Melons
National Gardening Association — To prepare summer squashes, wash the whole vegetable, trim off the ends and cut into cubes or slices. Serve thin, unpeeled raw slices in salads or with dips. Cook slices over steam for three to five minutes, or saute in olive oil until just ...More…
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Pickling Cucumbers
National Gardening Association — Pickling is one of the oldest ways to preserve food. You simply ferment vegetables in a salt brine or vinegar solution, and store them when the process is complete. Pickling is the best way to keep cucumbers once the harvest is over. There are a ...More…
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Curly-cues
National Gardening Association — One of the wonderful things about having your own garden is that you control when you harvest your vegetables. You can pick them immediately before preparing them to ensure that you have the freshest produce anywhere. Even better, you can also ...More…
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Ornamental and Unusual Gourds
National Gardening Association — There are two types of ornamental gourd. The first is brightly colored, with fanciful shapes. The names often describe them: apples, bells, pears, turbans or eggs. You can grow the gourds for table decorations, floral displays and harvest ...More…
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Charentais
National Gardening Association — If anything says "summer" to most folks, it's a juicy slice of a good ripe melon. Melons can be correctly referred to as either fruit or vegetable. They're members of the vine crop (cucurbit) family, which makes them vegetables. But ...More…
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Pumpkin Varieties & Growing Big Ones
National Gardening Association — Whether you want to challenge the world's record for pumpkin size (it's presently more than 1,000 pounds), or just want to have fun growing a huge pumpkin, that fruit will need lots of water, fertile soil, pampering and care. If you want to go ...More…