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A Zone-6 Vegetable Garden
... dishes in our diets. We believe strongly in using open-pollinated seeds and saving seed. (Some day Real Soon Now, we ... clear, accurate information, including discussions of most of the open-pollinated varieties available today.) Blatantly self-serving commercial: You can buy those ... was a total failure: the stuff ripped badly in even mild wind. Because the fence posts are well away from the garden ...
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Corn
... is not to say that we are gung ho for open-pollinated corn. Someday for sure we'll trial it and see, but ... we'll see what we can get away with. Because corn is wind-pollinated, it is important to plant in in blocks, rather than separated ... plant several varieties of corn, beware unwanted cross-pollination: "Supersweet varieties pollinated by standard sweet corn, popcorn, or field corn do not develop ...
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Desirable Vegetable Varieties: Melons
... that restriction, plus keeping solely, as always, to open-pollinated types (as with so many vegetables these days, hybrids ... besides careful cultivar selection) plastic mulches, drip irrigation, row covers, wind protection (notably important for young melon plants), starting seedlings indoors ... sensitive to sulpher; we wouldn't.) Melons are not wind-pollinated: they needs bees. If you aren't sure if ...
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Desirable Vegetable Varieties: Watermelons
... arsenal needs to include (besides careful cultivar selection) plastic mulches, drip irrigation, row covers, wind protection (notably important for young melon plants), starting seedlings indoors, and careful transplanting out ... many watermelon plants are awfully sensitive to sulpher; we wouldn't.) Watermelons are not wind-pollinated: they needs bees. If you aren't sure if you have bees, consider ...
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