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Come Join My New Gardening Group Called: Grow It Cook It Eat! - We Will Be Discussing Seed Starting Herbs and More! You are all invited! Grow It Cook It Eat It FB Group - Come Join! Please Visit The Rusted Garden Vegetable Seed and Garden Shop Here's to a great gardening 2017 season. We do a video series called Grow It Cook It Eat It. As we build members this month, we will be focusing, come January, on seed starting you own vegetables. January will start with lighting, seed starting supplies and starting herbs. Why not join our FB group and learn! We are launching a Gardening and Cooking FB Group focused on sharing home grown food with family and friends. Check out the pinned description for details and group theme.  We have a big season planned for GCE 2017. I'll start be giving away 25 packs of seeds (mixed lot)  on December 15th to a randomly drawn new GCE member. Grow It Cook It Eat It FB Group - Come Join! Below is the description of the Grow It Cook It Eat FB group. Col...

Using 100% Cold Pressed Neem Oil for Chewing Insects: Don't Get Fooled by Hydrophobic Extracts Please Visit The Rusted Garden Vegetable Seed and Garden Shop   I’ve been using organic 100% cold pressed Neem Oil with all its natural components for nearly 5 years in my garden to control chewing insects. If you are plagued by caterpillars/insects chewing your cabbage family, also known as the Brassicaceae family, plant leaves, you have an organic solution to stop them. That would include broccoli, cauliflower, kohlrabi, kale and other leafy green plant not in the family. A natural component in Neem Oil called Azadirachtin will impair the systems of chewing insects when ingested. They will die off in a few days. The bonus is that once it is sprayed and dried, it will not harm other insects that come in contact with it. It has to be ingested. This product has been used in India for centuries. I highly recommend you search Neem Oil and India as a phrase. Historically, the story goes lik...

Show What You Grow (E1):  5 Vegetable Gardening Tips,  Contest Winners & Bloopers Welcome to Show What You Grow - E1. This is an ongoing collaboration series I am doing with CaliKim. She has a wonderful garden YT channel she shoots on the west coast. This series will offer garden tips from the both of us, plus it will show off 3-5 contest winners from our Instagram Garden contests. You can win a place in our next video by doing a 1 minute Instagram garden tour showing off what you are growing  and offering up one garden tip. Contest details and links to the winner's social media are below. And we decided to put a few blooper in at the end. Have fun and send us a video! TracEy Monster's YT Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/TraceyMonster Retro Flowers YT Channel:https://www.youtube.com/user/dezarae1984 House of Hurleys Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/houseofhurleys/ To join our contest follow both Kim and I on Instagram Gary at The Rusted Garden: https://www.in...

Growing Organic Garlic  in Containers and Earth Beds:  Fall Planting Gary Pilarchik (The Rusted Garden) Gary Pilarchik (The Rusted Garden) Please Visit The Rusted Garden Vegetable Seed and Garden Shop There are two general categories for garlic and they are either softneck garlic or hardneck garlic. I recommend you do a search for zone planting of garlic and it will tell you which garlic type is best suited for your area. I am in Maryland Zone 7 and my zone is kind of like the buffer zone for both types. As you go more north, you would look to grow hardneck varieties. As you go more south you would look to grow softneck varieties. I grow both. The key to planting garlic in the fall is to plant when the cool fall weather arrives and stays. You want your garlic to establish a strong root system over the fall but not grow lots of green growth. If you plant it when it is too warm, it will send up green shoots. Some green growth is fine. When the nights in your area start to stay i...

Cool Season Vegetable Crops (Spring & Fall) A  Mix of Cool Weather Vegetables: The Rusted Garden Please Visit The Rusted Garden Vegetable Seed and Garden Shop What Makes A  Vegetable a Cool Weather Vegetable? The cell structures of vegetables differ in that some vegetables have  plant cells that will burst if they freeze or encounter even a light frost.. Cool  weather vegetables tend to have the ability to freeze without cell  damage. They are designed for the cooler temperatures. The cells can freeze and defrost in the sun with out damage to the plant leaf. When a extend cold comes that will freeze the roots or area where the roots meet the stem, that is when the plant usually dies or is damaged. So you have a lot of time to grow cool season vegetables! Fully Frozen and Survived: The Rusted Garden Cool season vegetables prefer the cooler weather. This group of  vegetables grows best and tastes their best with 50 degree (F)  nights and 60-70 degree...

Squash & Zucchini (Pests/Pollination)   Grow It, Cook It, Eat It - A Garden & Cooking Series E- 3 Coley and I are excited to present our 3rd episode of Grow It, Cook It, Eat It. You can find the recipe and other garden links below. This episode is all about Squash and Zucchini. Coley presents 5 tips on cooking and storing the vegetables which includes Zoodles. I focus on pollination and why fruit browns. I also talk at length about identifying and controlling squash bugs, beetles and vine borers. I grow my S & Z up cages and supports for easy spraying. And most importantly, don't forget to eat what you grow and cook, with your family and friends! Cheers! Coley and Gary 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 - : The Rusted Garden FB Videos Join My FB DISCUSSION Group - : The Rusted Garden: All About Vegetable Gardening

Growing Tomatoes and Peppers From Start To Finish Please Visit The Rusted Garden Vegetable Seed and Garden Shop Growing Tomatoes This is a 9 part series I just finished and it is hosted on one of my two garden YouTube Channels - My First Vegetable Garden . It holds nearly 200 garden videos for new gardeners. The 9 videos take you from seed starting tomatoes and peppers to hopefully a wonderful harvest. In between you can find all the steps on planting, feeding, tending and manage pests and disease. I've included all 9 videos on this page with their video descriptions. If you enjoy this series please check out my channel linked above. Growing Peppers (1 of 9) Growing Tomatoes and Peppers:  When to Seed Start,  Starting Mix, Light, Watering and Feeding This is a 9 part series that takes you from seed starting to picking tomatoes and peppers. The 1st video shows you how to seed start your tomatoes and peppers indoors. I show you how to prepare the starting mix, how to prevent fun...