Category: Plants
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From Seed to Harvest June Plant List
This is our list of how long plants take to harvest from seed from our What to Grow, Seed, and Sow list for June. We like having a list like this because it lets us know what we can and can’t grow based on what we are growing now and what we will grow in…
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How to Grow a Lemon Tree from Seed
Our children love trying to grow plants from seeds that they find in the food that they eat. So much so that we end up germinating seeds all year around. Citrus seeds are always very interesting to try and germinate, it’s not all always easy but once you learn how it is a lot of…
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10 Signs Your Plant Needs Something And What To Do About It.
We spend and awful out of time thinking about, taking care of, and talking to our plants. Weather we worry about them or forget about them something is bound to happen. That one thing that no matter how much or how little time we spend with them gets our attention and makes us think “what’s…
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How to Grow Hedou Bok Choy
Hedou Bok Choy is a miniature version of Bok Choy. It is a rare garden plant that we grow in Our Little Chateau. It is a lot of fun to grow and it grows very fast. It is also very low maintenance but can be grown in small containers so it is prefect for filling…
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How to Grow and Care for Acorn Squash
The photo above is of the last acorn squash plant we grew before we left Canada. We grow it in a raised garden bed that we made ourselves. In the garden bed we had two acorn and two small white pumpkin plants. We made made a trellis out of string an let them grow up…
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How to Grow Pumpkin Seedlings from a Store Bought Pumpkins
Pumpkins are a very versatile fruit that is commonly thought to as a vegetable. We often find pumpkins in the grocery store that we cant find seed packets for at the nursery or plant store. We like to try to grow them ourselves when we do find ones that we like at the grocery store.…
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How to Grow Sweet Potatoes in Containers
We have grown sweet potatoes in large and small containers and it can be done. The only difference between the two would be that with small containers you end up with small sweet potatoes. The photo above is from when we grow sweet potatoes in a hanging basket outside. The following information is about how…
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Growing Tomatillos In Containers
The photo above is of one of tomatillo plants we grew at our little chateau in Canada. Tomatillos like hot weather and lots of room to grow. We sprouted them in doors and put them in the green house in buckets durning the summer. Durning hottest part of the summer we sat them outside and…
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How to Grow Watermelon Radish
We just planted a new mini patch of watermelon radish in a small decorative wagon because are little garden thought it would look nice. It was a really cute idea and looks nice. What he doesn’t know is we have used the wagon to plant things in in the past. It’s prefect for fast growing…
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How to Harvest and Save Tomato Seeds.
Tomatoes are one of our favorite and most used fruits here in Our Little Chateau. They are sweet and tangy and go with almost everything, they are also tasty on there own. We eat a lot of different type of tomatoes from big to small, and in many different colors. For this reason we like…