Mr. Vegetable's Garden Tips: Secrets to Success with Intermountain and High Desert Gardening - Softcover

Tova Roseman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0943674026 ISBN 13: 9780943674025

Publisher: Roseman Publishing, 1998

Synopsis

Mr. Vegetable's Garden Tips give you 30 years worth of tips, tricks, and tried and true methods. 85 color photos and drawings; from irrigation layouts, and raised beds, to seed viability tests and an intensive spacing guide to get the most out of small spaces.

* Easy to read month-by-month format

* Learn how to keep a garden diary

* Down home advice you can start using now

* Grow your own vegetables with more flavor than you thought possible.

About this title

About the Author

Gene Klump is host of the Garden Talk Line radio show that directly addresses caller's challenges of gardening in the Intermountain West. He is a Lifetime Master Gardener and was inducted into the Master Gardener Hall of Fame.

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Treated Seeds Many gardeners, myself included, like to get a jump on the season and plant warm-season crops far earlier than normal. There is a risk, however. Planting warm-season vegetables such as corn before the soil warms up will generally cause the seed to rot, so using treated seeds makes sense. The coating prevents rotting while seeds are waiting for the soil to warm. It also increases the germination rate-an answer to lingering cold spells. If seed have been treated it will say so on the seed packet. However most of the seeds we buy are not treated, but its easy to treat them yourself. Buy a packet of seed treatment or seed protectant. Take a book match and dip it into the powder. A small amount will cling to the match. Then slip the whole match into the seed packet and shake it up. If treated seeds are not for you, plant three times the amount of seed or wait until the soil warms up.

Edition details

• Publisher: Roseman Publishing
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0943674026
• ISBN 13: 9780943674025
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96
• Editor: Tova Roseman