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A Beginner’s Guide to Growing Rice

Learn to plant, grow, and harvest rice in your own backyard Rice comes in long-grain, medium- and short-grain textures. It grows easily in your backyard, in a garden bed or in buckets, given the right amount of soil, wat...

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Become a Farmer Without Experience

"Farmers farm for the love of farming. They love to watch and nurture the growth of plants. They love to live in the presence of animals. They love to work outdoors. They love the weather, maybe even when it is making th...

Plant and Grow an Avocado Seed in Soil: A Step-by-Step Guide

Who doesn’t love fresh guac or creamy avocado toast? If you’ve ever made anything with an avocado, you may have wondered just what you can do with the big pit in the center. Why not use it to grow your own avocado t...

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Grow Kidney Beans

Kidney beans are easy to grow as long as you make sure the roots don't get waterlogged or otherwise damaged at any point during the season. Below, we'll tell you everything you need to know. Let's dive in!

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Harvest Celery

Celery is a versatile vegetable that is great for cooking or eating raw. However, it can be difficult to grow properly. Once your celery plants have formed stalks, wait for the right time to harvest, and decide whether y...

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Grow Cucumbers Indoors

Cucumbers are nutritious and can be prepared and eaten in a variety of ways. Growing cucumbers indoors means you can have this crunchy treat available year-round. The vines of cucumber plants spread out over a large area...

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Grow Winter Onions

Winter onions are an extremely large, hardy vegetable that can survive in cold temperatures. Typically, the majority of their growth occurs over the winter months. Most winter onions are also considered “walking onions...

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Harvest Wheat

Harvesting wheat is a really difficult process that requires pretty good preparation and decent timing. If dry wheat is left out in the field too long, winds and storms can destroy the crop. The quality of the wheat may ...

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Prepare Land for Farming

Farming can be a really lucrative trade with the right crops, but it can be tough to get your foot in the door at first. Before you can get harvesting, you’ll need lots of healthy soil to nourish your future plants. Pr...

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Harvest Sweet Pea Seed Pods

The sweet pea is a flowering plant that’s native to parts of the Mediterranean, but people grow it all over the world for the sweet-smelling and beautiful flowers. Sweet pea pods and seeds are not edible, but you can h...

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Grow Cucumbers

Cucumbers are high yield plants that are relatively easy to grow in a backyard garden. Bush varieties of this tasty vegetable can even be grown in containers on an apartment porch or balcony. Once you've adequately prepa...

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Harvest Romaine Lettuce

Romaine lettuce is a healthy, popular variety of head lettuce, which is relatively easy to grow in a home garden or planter. Romaine can be harvested in 1 of 2 ways: you can harvest the entire head of lettuce at once, wh...

Proven Ways to Protect Crops from Heavy Rain and Water Damage

Naturally, if you grow any type of crops, you want steady rainfall to keep them healthy. Heavy rains, however, can damage or drown your plants, which you definitely don’t want! Luckily, farmers have dealt with this pro...

When to Harvest Rhubarb and How to Pick the Stalks

Make the most of rhubarb season with this ultimate harvest guideAh, rhubarb. This beautiful veggie, whose color can range from light green or pale pink to deep maroon, is full of flavor and sweetness. Growing it in your ...

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Plant Shallots

Shallots are a type of onion that have a much milder flavor than typical onions, making them ideal for when you don’t want a strong onion for a soup or raw dish. You can grow shallots either from seeds or from bulbs, a...

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Harvest Eggplant

Eggplants are delicious and healthy vegetables that are easy to grow right at home. If you’ve got a crop of eggplant coming in, it’s important to know exactly when to harvest them since eggplants can over ripen easil...

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Store Sweet Corn

Like other varieties of corn, sweet corn is best enjoyed straight from the stalk. However, if you're not planning on using freshly-picked sweet corn right away, there are a couple of ways to store it that will preserve i...

A Quick Guide to Corn Harvesting

Learn when and how to pick sweet and popcorn corn for freezing or canning After you've planted and grown corn in your garden, the next step is harvesting. Harvesting corn is quick and simple after you've noticed its tas...

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Harvest Oregano

The pungent yet slightly bitter taste of oregano is sure to add flavor to any dish or drink you put it in. Harvesting your own oregano at home ensures you get the freshest, best-tasting herb that’s out there, and picki...

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Pick Cucumbers

You’ve carefully nurtured your cucumbers from seeds to plants. Now, you want to reap the rewards of your labor. Whether the fruits are going to be sliced or pickled, knowing when and how to pick your cucumbers can incr...