Vegetables are the reason most of us started gardening.
When you first taste the vegetables you have grown in your garden, or in an urban area, you will know the difference.
Comparing the taste of your own grown vegetables with those you buy from the market, you will know that you did the right thing by starting to grow your own vegetables.
The vegetable you have grown, may not be pretty, but they will be tasteful and without pesticides.
Greek salad is the iconic salad of Greece. The dish that most tourists / visitors prefer to order, during their stay in Greece. Here you will learn what is the genuine Greek salad, how you can make it yourself, and how much should you pay for it while staying in Greece. The origins of Greek […]
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Many people think that authentic Santorini’s tomatoes are small, beautiful round tomatoes. Something like what we know as cherry tomatoes. The reality is very different. Authentic Santorini’s tomatoes are small, ugly looking, bad looking tomatoes. As bad looking as they are, they are delicious!!! In Santorini’s pre-tourist period, the island’s economy was based on the
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Everything you need to know about growing tomatoes! Tomatoes are one of the favorite vegetables (or fruits?) of summer. I have a hard time imagining a summer bushel that doesn’t have tomatoes in it. It’s not too late to plant your own tomatoes. Try growing tomatoes and you won’t regret it. The aroma, the taste
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Learn how to braid the onions and garlics you grow in the garden to make them last longer. Braiding onions and garlics is an old practice. Braids of onions and garlics are easy to handle, store in a dry place in a warehouse. Braids provide good aeration and prohibit garlics and onions to rot. To
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This text on the harvesting and preservation of dry onions was sent to me by Mr. Vassilis Yachalis, an experienced onion grower. I thank him very much for the information and advices he gives us. When to harvest the onions Onions are harvested (to keep it dry) after the leaves have withered and wilted. This
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At this time of year (January-February) I sow onion sets to grow onions. This text about growing onions from onion sets was sent to me by Mr. Vasilis Yahalis, an older gardener from Greece. I thank him very much for the text, and for the advice he gave me. And because these are words drawn
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Why do I see yellow leaves on broccoli and cauliflower plants? The broccoli I had planted were growing normally until a week ago. Then, as you can see in the photos, their leaves started to turn yellow. As the days went by, the yellowing began to spread. The same phenomenon, occurred on the cauliflowers that
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Disease and pest infestations on vegetables are one of the biggest problems that the amateur gardener has to deal with in his garden. As you will see below, there is not much we can do about our vegetables as a drastic preventive measure. I will give you tips about 14 vegetables. How to avoid unpleasant
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Delicious winter potatoes see the sunlight (14 November 2018) I sowed my potatoes on August 29. I sowed my potatoes at the end of August Potato plants in full growth (30 October 2018) At the end of October, the potato plants were almost ready. Note the following: 10 days later, the picture of the potato
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What happens if you harvest a lettuce by cutting it and don’t uproot it? How do we cut a lettuce from the garden? The classic way to harvest lettuce from the garden is to uproot it. Pull it out of the soil with its root. Cut off the root and consume the delicious lettuce. This
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How do I grow spinach? Spinach is an easy-to-grow vegetable. It can be grown in the garden and on the balcony. Spinach is sown from early September to early February. Spinach is a cold-hardy plant. It needs low temperatures to thrive. Spinach is grown in a wide variety of soils, but sandy loam is the
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Characteristic symptoms of plant deficiencies part 2 Depending on the location of symptoms on the plant, deficiencies can be divided into two categories: 1) When the symptoms are first observed in the leaves at the base of the plant and with time progress upwards, even reaching the leaves at the top, then we speak of
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In order to check the health of our plants (nutritional status), we often wonder, which is better to do: leaf diagnosis or soil analysis? Do we need both, or do we not? Let’s start by looking at what is one and what is the other… Soil analysis: It is the examination of the soil where
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In this article we will deal with cultivation and sowing with the Moon calendar (lunar phases). In the old days, before the invention of the personal clock, the most reliable way to tell time was the sun, moon and stars. Even today, we don’t know exactly who were the first to conceive of the moon-based
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How do I grow cabbage in my garden? Read the article and you will be able to grow your own delicious cabbages. It’s easy! The cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. capitata), belongs to the same family as cauliflower and broccoli (family Cruciferae). It is cultivated for its leafy head, actually the spherical cluster of immature leaves,
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How do I grow cauliflowers in my garden? The cauliflower (Brassica oleracea var. botrytis), belongs to the same family as cabbage and broccoli (family Cruciferae). It is cultivated for its flower head which is edible. The flower head is white or slightly yellow in color. Cauliflower is a close relative of broccoli. Suitable climate for
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How do I sow potatoes in the garden? Potatoes can be grown in the garden, but even on the balcony or terrace in the city. In both cases, you need to make sure that the soil in which they are grown is fluffy and soft so that the potatoes can grow in it and become
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Want to know how to grow carrots? Scientific name of carrots: Daucus carota, οικ. Umbelliferae. Description of the carrot plant The carrot originated in Asia but is nowadays cultivated all over the world. The carrot is an edible species grown as a vegetable and belongs to the family Apiaceae or Umbelliferae ( Carrot or Parsley
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Learn about the nutrients that plants need to be healthy and strong. Whether growing in the garden or growing in pots, plants use minerals for their nutrition. Complex processes that contribute to the creation of minerals in soil include natural rock decay, decomposition of organic matter, animals and organisms, and microbial activity. Roots take up
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The information on the symptoms of nutrient deficiencies in tomatoes (trophic deficiencies) comes from “The Diagnosis of Mineral Deficiencies in Plants by Visual Symptoms” by Thomas Wallace, M.C., D.Sc., A.I.C., published in 1943. I found this source from the blog “The Perdic Cafe”, looking for why my tomatoes are opening this year. I have planted
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