Harvesting Round and Cylindrical Beets: Two Types of Beets to Grow

Harvesting Round and Cylindrical Beets: 

Two Types of Beets to Grow

Beets are probably one of the best vegetables to have regularly in your diet. Many people are familiar with the standard red round beets like the 'Detroit Dark Red' variety. There are also cylindrical beets that carry the same flavor, color and benefits of round beets. Cylindrical beets, 'Cylindra' for example, offer an easier to slice beet that is a great size for pickling and for salads. The video quickly shows you the harvest of round beets and cylindrical beets.





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Update: Using A Fabric Tent to Stop Cabbage Looper Damage on Your Vegetables: It Works!

Update: Using a Fabric Tent to Stop 

Cabbage Looper Damage on Your Vegetables
(It Works!)

The green cabbage looper is often the answer to what is eating holes in your cabbages, kales, collards, kholrabi and other leafy green vegetables. They come from that white psychotic flying moth. It lays eggs on the leaves of your garden vegetables and that starts the cycle of devastation. I have used the product Bacillus Thuringeiensis or Bt in the past. It is effective and works as long as you don't miss dosings and as long as the rain doesn't quickly wash the product away.

This year I came across a fabric called tulle, pronounced tool, and it makes an outstanding fabric tent. It is strong, you can see through it and most of all it is effective against the white moth that lays the green cabbage looper eggs. I don't have a single hole in the upper leaves from worms as the update video will show you. I highly recommend making a fabric tent. The tulle is inexpensive and can be found at craft stores. I also included the construction video for the fabric tent and the video that shows you the moth that lays the eggs.


Update Video on Kale Growth and Cabbage Looper Protection


Construction Video for the Fabric Tent Over Your Kales & Collards


 The White Moth and Green Cabbage Looper



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Growing Cucumbers Vertically in Sunken Garden Containers

Growing Cucumbers Vertically in Sunken Container Gardens

Sunken containers allow you to concentrate the 'best' soil in one location for the vegetables or in this case the cucumber plants. This can save you money. The bottoms are removed or a large portion is cut out of the container to allow the roots to grow beyond the size of the container. This allows the vegetables to grow to full size without worry of root constraints and it allows them to get moisture.

Cucumbers are heavy feeders and should be fed 1 to 2x weekly, based on your choice of fertilizers, once they start producing cucumbers. Cucumbers in my area are prone to soft bodied insect attacks. Growing them vertically not only saves space in your garden but it helps you better manage pests and disease. It is much easier for me to get my soapy water spray on the undersides of the leaves when they grow up a tomato cage.




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How to Easily Clone Tomatoes and Root Tomato Suckers

How to Easily Clone and Root Tomato Suckers

A tomato 'sucker' is essentially a growing tip that will form a full size tomato plant. There are many ways to clone a tomato by rooting a tomato sucker. I show you an extremely easy method to root the sucker in water.

You can watch the roots establish and grow and when they are long enough (about an inch), you can put them into an 8 ounce cup of growing medium. Just keep the medium moist for about a week and you will have a clone of your original tomato plant that is ready for planting in your vegetable garden.





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Fennel: Attract the Entire Life Cycle of the Black Swallowtail Butterfly - The Rusted Garden 2013

Fennel: Attract the Entire Life Cycle 

of the Black Swallowtail Butterfly 

The herb fennel will attract the entire life cycle of the black swallowtail butterfly. It will host eggs, caterpillars and the chrysalis. You can plant clumps of fennel in your flower garden and the plants will host the the life cycle of many kinds of butterflies.


If you remove a branch of the fennel with a mature caterpillar... you can put it in a jar and watch the chrysalis form and the swallowtail emerge. A great project for kids!








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