garlic bulbs

cilantro | cucumbers | garlic bulbs | indoor growbox | onions | outdoor seed starting | peas | tomato

Growing in dirt outside
ByThe Cheap Vegetable Gardener

I haven’t done many posts in a while about regular old gardening in actual dirt so figured a good time to do an update. Though I enjoy indoor seed starting in my LED grow box and computerized grow box, some plants need to be started outdoors. Today my daughters and I planted the last these plants for fall outdoor planting. A few weeks ago, we planted garlic, onions, spinach,…

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cheap | cilantro | garlic bulbs | organic | seedling | seeds | vertical gardening | winter garden

The most profitable plants in your vegetable garden
ByThe Cheap Vegetable Gardener

Many vegetables can be expensive to purchase by growing the most expensive vegetables in your garden and buying the least inexpensive vegetables at your grocery store you can easily help drop your food budget. This especially important for people like me with very limited space to grow everything that I consume. It may be impossible to put a price on the satisfaction of bringing in a basket of produce…

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cucumbers | summer

Hey, those cucumbers look like pickles
ByThe Cheap Vegetable Gardener

That was a statement my oldest daughter (6 years old) made which I must admit I am pretty sure I was much older before I had that thought. Seemed like a good opportunity for teaching the kids were pickles come from and a great excuse to make some sweet summer pickles. While heading out the door to get some spices we were lacking my wife told me, "these better…

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water

How to water your garden
ByThe Cheap Vegetable Gardener

Many people may look at the topic of this post and think how basic a topic this is. The reality is proper watering is the most difficult part of growing a garden. The challenge ensures in the fact that roots need to stay moist, but not too moist since roots do not grow in the soil but in the space (air) between it so with too much water your…

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garlic bulbs | growing challenge

Garden teriyaki sauce recipe
ByThe Cheap Vegetable Gardener

This is the first year I have grown garlic inspired by the Growing Challenge so now I want to find some good uses for this new addition. For Independence Day we are having a typical BBQ (teriyaki chicken burgers) and we ran out of teriyaki sauce seemed like a logical thing to attempt. Must say the improvised recipe was really easy and tasted much better than the stuff we…

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garlic bulbs | slugs

Slugs eating my garlic
ByThe Cheap Vegetable Gardener

The word is slugs are supposed to hate garlic, guess no one told this guy. The reality is they do not like the bulb underground apparently the garlic leaves are delicious. Appears that I need to step up my war with the slugs.

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indoor seed starting | seed saving

Harvesting seeds from the grocery store
ByThe Cheap Vegetable Gardener

There is more than one way to harvest seeds sure can grow your own but there is also another option. Use seeds someone else grew by buying them at a grocery store or farmers market. Have you ever have bought potatoes, sweet potatoes or yams and noticed sprouts coming out of them, dig a hole and plant them in the ground and in a few weeks you may have…

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germination | outdoor seed starting | seed storing

Planting seeds outside
ByThe Cheap Vegetable Gardener

I always enjoy any seeds I required to start outdoors since they normally thrive with little effort from myself other than the occasional watering and given I live in the rainy Seattle area that does start until mid-June. Even if you have started many of your seeds indoors to extend your growing season some seeds should always start outdoors since they are sensitive to transplant shock. If you have…

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garlic bulbs | growing challenge

How to grow garlic in your garden
ByThe Cheap Vegetable Gardener

My experiment of planting organic garlic which I bought from my local produce section of my grocery store seems to be working well. If you want to try this yourself here are some hopefully easy to follow steps: Buy some good looking garlic at your grocery store (I chose organic since I made an assumption there was a decreased chance that it was treated to prevent growth) When you…

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indoor seed starting | tomato

Oh the carnage…
ByThe Cheap Vegetable Gardener

I am sorry to inform you that we have had a death in the garden. By entering this world a just a little sprout started from a packet of seeds just a couple of months ago. They spent most of their life being nurtured in the comfortable surroundings of the PC grow box our poor tomoto plants did not survive the harshness freakish winter storm we which occurred weeks…

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garlic bulbs | growing challenge | potatoes

Harvesting seeds from the grocery store – Update
ByThe Cheap Vegetable Gardener

I definitely can’t complain about the current results of the garlic and potatoes I planted from my original post Harvesting seeds from the grocery store Every clove of garlic I planted has come up and seems to compliment the onions well and is supposed to keep the slugs away which I can always use help on. The potatoes have finished developing above ground just hope my soil is not…

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