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How to harvest lettuce Lettuce grows great in the Carolinas during our cool season. I have three plantings of lettuce that I ...

Basil is also a companion for other plants, such as beans, eggplants, capsicums, beetroot, potatoes and lettuce ... leaves. Basil plants need to be regularly picked, harvesting about 20-30% of the ...

These include peas, lettuce ... This phenomenon leaves basil struggling when rue is grown in close proximity. Rue is a ...

Fresh strawberries are my weakness. For decades I have enjoyed sliced strawberries along with a handful of blueberries on my Cheerios every morning. Done. Finished. I am no longer buying American ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. For a lot of us growing up, the only home-grown lettuce we might have had was probably the large ...

Cutting back basil plants regularly during the growing season encourages bushier growth, enhances the flavor of the leaves, and prevents the plant from going to seed. That said, over-pruning basil ...

Continuous harvesting of outer leaves allows the plant to keep producing. Lettuce is perfect for fresh ... such as mustard, basil, and sunflower greens, are among the fastest-growing vegetables ...

“Specifically, we manipulated the ratio of blue light to red light in all three filters to see how it affected plant growth.” The experiment showed that lettuce ... the leaf area (LA) and ...