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A list of all the varieties of hot pepper plants LP Farm Store sells.

Growing carrots can be hit or miss. For some people it's super easy and some people the carrots never get big. It mainly comes down to what type of soil you have and watering. It takes carrots 10-30 days to germinate. My soil makes bricks so growing root veggies can be challenging. Last year my soil was making bricks, but I still got giant potatoes and carrots. Now if you have raised beds you should get beautiful carrots as long as you monitor moisture levels and you

What is the Scoville Heat Scale? How do you measure the heat of peppers?

What is the difference between all the bags of soil you can buy in stores. What is the difference between soil, dirt, and mixes.

Having a 3.5 acre garden pollinators are really important. Hand pollinating a three acre pumpkin patch does not sound like fun, good exercise, but not fun. Pollinators include: bees, birds, butterflies, bats, insects, and small mammals. They sustain our ecosystems and produce our natural resources by helping plants reproduce ( source ). Pollinator numbers have been declining every year and it is vital that we help stabilize the pollinator numbers There are over 20,000 sp

A list of the bee balm plant varieties that LP Farm Store sells.

Types of milkweed and how and why to plant it.

What is damping off and what can be done to prevent it.

I tried various methods to make my garden plan/map for the previous post. I tried drawing, but I realized quite quickly I don't have the skills to make an eye pleasing map. Next I tried MS Paint and realized I need gridlines. My plants were doing the wave in the rows. Next up I tried this program and quickly realized it wasn't up to snuff, but trudged on. This garden plan/map is not up to scale so the measurements might be a wee bit off. I quickly realized designing and

Are you a beginner gardener and it seems a bit daunting? In this post I'll go through everything you need to do to have a successful garden. This post I'll be writing about inground gardening. In later posts I'll go into container gardening and raised bed gardening. Step 1 is finding the perfect spot to have the garden, if you have the perfect spot all ready to go skip down to the other steps. You want to make sure your garden gets a lot of sunlight, at least 6 or more h

Spacing vegetables adequately is important due to preventing crowding, diseases, adequate air flow, and support healthy growth. Spacing plants too close together will mean decreased yields. Spacing is also important with container gardening. I often have to tell people putting 3 indeterminate tomato plants in a 24" pot is a very bad idea. Also crowding pots and not allowing air flow means diseases might start happening. Every vegetable plant has it's own requirement. W

Having a plan either in life or in the garden makes things easier. It gets you from point a to point b or point z much easier. It can also minimize surprises, like planting 10 zucchini plants and almost filling your bathroom with zucchinis (for my market garden I only plant 10-15 plants and it's plenty for my markets). So what should you consider when making a garden? Where are you going to plant? Containers, raised beds, or in the ground. Soil. I will go into more deta