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| − | |style="background:LightYellow" | 1 ||style="background:LightYellow" |Sowing||style="background:LightYellow" |"Prepare the surface earth well, to make a good seed-bed. Plant when the ground is moist, if possible, and preferably just before a rain... For shallow-planted seeds, firm the earth above them by walking over the row or by patting it down with a hoe [I usually do it with the back side of a rake, or with my hand]. Special care should be exercised not to sow very small and slow-germinating seeds, as celery, carrot, onion, in poorly prepared soil or in ground that bakes.||style="background:LightYellow" | [[File:Radish sowing holes.JPG|120px|]] ||style="background:LightYellow" | The photo shows little holes made with a board with bumps for sowing radish seeds. I cover them with lava gravel or fine soil.||style="background:LightYellow" | [[]] | + | |style="background:LightYellow" | 1 ||style="background:LightYellow" |Sowing||style="background:LightYellow" |"Prepare the surface earth well, to make a good seed-bed. Plant when the ground is moist, if possible, and preferably just before a rain... For shallow-planted seeds, firm the earth above them by walking over the row or by patting it down with a hoe [I usually do it with the back side of a rake, or with my hand]. Special care should be exercised not to sow very small and slow-germinating seeds, as celery, carrot, onion, in poorly prepared soil or in ground that bakes.||style="background:LightYellow" | [[File:Radish sowing holes.JPG|120px|]] ||style="background:LightYellow" | The photo shows little holes made with a board with bumps for sowing radish seeds. I cover them with lava gravel or fine soil.||style="background:LightYellow" | [[Sowing]] |
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Revision as of 15:48, 1 June 2012
- All these tips and more first appeared on this Facebook page.
- List of Daily Gardening Tips gives an alphabetical list of all tips.
June 2012
Day Topic Tip Photo Photo caption More 1 Sowing "Prepare the surface earth well, to make a good seed-bed. Plant when the ground is moist, if possible, and preferably just before a rain... For shallow-planted seeds, firm the earth above them by walking over the row or by patting it down with a hoe [I usually do it with the back side of a rake, or with my hand]. Special care should be exercised not to sow very small and slow-germinating seeds, as celery, carrot, onion, in poorly prepared soil or in ground that bakes. 
The photo shows little holes made with a board with bumps for sowing radish seeds. I cover them with lava gravel or fine soil. Sowing
