If the leafs of your garlic plants are beginning to dry out it is time to pull your garlic plants out of the soil to dry under cover. If you leave the garlic planted in the wet soil the outer parchment can spoil.

An experienced Italian American home garlic grower passes along valuable tips for helping us determine the best time to harvest your garlic garden.

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The recipe I prefer is natural and uses no lye or sugar.
Olives freshly picked from the tree contain compounds which makes the fruit much to bitter for immediate consumption. There are many ways of processing olives for table use.

Traditional methods use the natural microorganisms of the fruit and procedures which bring about fermetation of the fruit. This fermentation creates lactic acid. The result is a product which will store with or without refrigeration.

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Would you like to revel in the Joy of gardening - without any poisons, without any hassles, without any worries, with much less work --- yet have incredibly healthy, lush and beautiful gardens.

Well, you've come to the right place, for these are not hairy-fairy, ivory tower theories - but simple, supremely effective, down-to-earth methods.

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Okra is a tall-growing, warm-season, annual vegetable from the same family as hollyhock and hibiscus. The immature pods are used for pickling, soups, canning and stews or as a fried or boiled vegetable. The flowering plant (3 to 6 feet or more in height) have ornamental value for backyard gardens.

Planting

Plant seeds after the soil warms in the spring. Sow seeds 1 inch deep in hills 12 to 24 inches apart. When the seedlings are 3 inches tall, thin all but the one strongest plant per hill. The seeds may be soaked, wrapped in moist paper toweling or in water overnight, to accelerate germination.

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