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The Farmer's Almanac: Chard Planting Guidelines Please Visit The Rusted Garden Vegetable Seed and Garden Shop Below is the planting guide for chard from The Farmer's Almanac. I highly recommended it for a planting guide if you are just getting started. Here is the direct link to The Farmer's Almanac Planting Guides. Chard  is a member of the beet family that does well in both cool and warm temperatures. It can be cooked or used raw in salads and is high in vitamins A and C. PLANTING Plant chard seeds 2 to 3 weeks before the last spring frost date. Continue planting seeds at 10-day intervals for a month. For a fall harvest, plant chard seeds again about 40 days before the first fall frost date. Before planting, mix 1 cup of 5-10-10 fertilizer into the soil for every 20 feet of single row. Plant the seeds ½ to ¾ of inch deep in well-drained, rich, light soil. Space the seeds about 18 inches apart in single rows or 10 to 18 inches apart in wide rows. Sow eight to t...

The Farmer's Almanac: Beet Planting Guidelines Please Visit The Rusted Garden Vegetable Seed and Garden Shop Below is the planting guide for beet from The Farmer's Almanac. I highly recommended it for a planting guide if you are just getting started. Here is the direct link to The Farmer's Almanac Planting Guides. Beets  are a cool season vegetable crop. This root veggie grows quickly and has many different varieties which showcase deep red, yellow or white bulbs of different shapes. They can survive frost and almost freezing temperatures, which makes them a good choice for northern gardeners and an excellent long-season crop. PLANTING A soil pH above 5.5–6 is best, otherwise growth will be stunted. Beets are a good indicator of soil pH. Till in aged manure before planting. Beets require especially good nutrition and a high phosphorus level to germinate. Go easy on nitrogen however, an excess will cause sprawling greens and tiny bulbs beneath the soil. Wait until soi...

My Garden Seed Shop is Now Open On Shopify.  Neem Oil, Tomato Seeds, Vegetable Seeds My Garden Seed Shop is OPEN The Rusted Garden Shopify Garden Seed Shop I just opened my garden seed shop on Shopify. I am offering over 100 varieties of heirloom seeds. You can buy 100% cold pressed neem oil there as well as calcium nitrate for blossom end rot. If you want to attract butterflies, bees and beneficial insects to your garden, you can find a wildflower package and herbs for that purpose. The herb package is unique to my shop as I selected and mixed the seeds. More stuff will be added regularly. All kinds of discounted seed packages. All proceeds get turned back into The Rusted Garden in some capacity. If you have a chance, I could use a share to help let people know my shop is open. Thanks! The Rusted Garden Shopify Garden Seed Shop Good Luck with Your Garden, Gary (The Rusted Garden) Join My New YouTube Channel Just for NEW Gardeners: My First Vegetable Garden Join My FB VIDEO Page -...

Subscribe to my YouTube Channel The Rusted Garden Over 800 Garden Videos Designed to Quickly Present Information! Please Support The Rusted Garden by Shopping through my Amazon Affiliate Link   Selected Herbs for Creating a 3 B's Garden: Beneficial Insects, Butterflies and Bees (Seed Packages for Sale) Please Visit The Rusted Garden Vegetable Seed and Garden Shop We all know the importance of honey bees to our gardens and the world. We also know that herbs have countless culinary and medicinal uses. Did you know herbs can also be grown to attract the three B’s to your garden: Beneficial Insects, Butterflies and Bees?  Tomatoes and peppers tend to self-pollinate but if you are growing cucumbers, squash, zucchini and melons, you definitely want the buzzing of bees and beneficial insects flying throughout your garden. Butterflies are attracted to many types of herbs and will use some of them as an integral part of their life cycle. Insects that eat insects will come to your ga...

The Rusted Garden Neem Oil, Calcium Nitrate, Tomato Seeds and Other Vegetable Seeds Sale: Things I am Selling for 2017 Click Any Link for My New Shopify Shop Over 40 Varieties of Tomatoes The Rusted Garden now has a  Seed and Garden Product Shop   on Shopify. Click any link to got to my New Shop! Click the Link Above to Order Abe Lincoln Arkansas Traveler Aunt Ruby's German Green Aussie, Baxter's Bush Beefsteak (Red) Black Krim, Black Cherry Black Plum Blush, Bradley Brandywine Red Brandywine Yellow Bumble Bee Cherokee Purple Costoluto Genovese Coyote, Fourth of July German Johnson Glacier, Homestead Indigo Apple Marglobe, Matina Matt's Wild Cherry Micro Tom Mountain Gold Orange Banana Orange Kentucky Pink Oxheart Principe Borghese Red Currant or Sweet Pea Riesenstraube Rutgers Select Siberian, Silvery Fir Sioux, Sub Arctic Max Tiny Tim Todd County Amish Yellow Pear Specific Need Tomatoes Dwarf Small Container, 5 Gallon Container, Cold Tolerant/Early and Fun Cherry Type Ti...