60 Seconds or Sow: Identifying the Squash Bug & Squash Bug Eggs

60 Seconds or Sow: Identifying the Squash Bug & Squash Bug Eggs 

In 60 seconds or so... quickly learn to identify the squash bug and the eggs it lays. You have to inspect the upper and lower leaves of your squash and zucchini plants several times a week. The eggs are easy to spot if you look for them. Find them, pinch out the eggs with a piece of the leaf and get them out of your garden!

Squash Bug Eggs - The Rusted Garden 2014

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60 Seconds or Sow: Identifying and Treating Japanese Beetles

60 Seconds or Sow: Identifying and Treating Japanese Beetles 

In 60 seconds or so... I show you how to identify Japanese Beetles and discuss treatment options. They are one of the more easier pests to identify and treat.

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60 Seconds or Sow: Identifying & Controlling Flea Beetles on Eggplants

60 Seconds or Sow: Identifying & Controlling Flea Beetles on Eggplants

In 60 seconds or so... I show you how to identify and treat flea beetles on eggplants. Other vegetables will also get flea beetles. My eggplant will get swarms of beetles every year if not treated. You can use organic or non-organic methods to treat them. I use a chemical dust. It is effective for my needs.

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60 Seconds or Sow: What is Bolting Lettuce/Greens?

60 Seconds or Sow: What is Bolting Lettuce/Greens?

In 60 seconds or so... I describe the process of 'bolting'. Lettuce and other greens are cool weather crops. When the warm temperatures come, lettuce moves from leaf productions to flower and seed production. Very often the flavor of lettuce changes and it becomes bitter. You can tell your crop is beginning to bolt when the center starts growing upwards. It happens pretty quickly when the temperatures change.

Below are healthy spinach leaves that are enjoying the cool weather. They were all picked and enjoyed. In another week or so the 'bolting' process would have started. Lettuces tend to get more bitter but spinach keeps it flavor even when it bolts. 

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60 Seconds or Sow: Make Your Own Indestructible Onion Sets

60 Seconds or Sow: Make Your Own Indestructible Onion Sets

In 60 seconds or so... I show you just how indestructible onions really are to grow as sets. Any gardener can do this. These onions were over-seeded in the cells. You can watch my other videos to learn the process. The onions in the video have been neglected outside and still have bulbed quite well for making sets. Check it out. You can grow 100's of onions for pennies.

I started these in seed cells and just let them grow. If you keep them watered and add liquid fertilizer, you can grow them to this size packed together. Just separate them and you can have 100's of onions in your garden for pennies. Below is what you buy in stores for $4 or $5 dollars a bunch. Look familiar?

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60 Seconds or Sow: Identifying Tomato Suckers for Pruning

60 Seconds or Sow: Identifying Tomato Suckers for Pruning

In 60 seconds or so... I show you how to identify tomato 'suckers' in the joints of leaf branches and the main growing tomato production stem. This video show you how to find the tomato 'suckers'. Suckers will actually grow into main stems and produce flowers, tomatoes and more suckers. You prune them to manage the size of the plant.

A couple of things to know... You really don't have to prune 'determinate' type tomato varieties. You prune 'indeterminate' varieties as the continue to grow until frost comes. You can easily find what kind you have on the label, seed pack or with an web search.

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60 Seconds or Sow: Harvesting Red Russian Kale Flowers as a Biennial

60 Seconds or Sow: Harvesting Red Russian Kale Flowers as a Biennial

In 60 seconds or so... I describe how you harvest kale flowers for salads. Kale is biennial that will over winter in Zone 7. Kale will produce large leaves the first season, can be cut back in winter and come spring... it will produce smaller sweeter leaves and flower clusters that you can eat. You can get 2 seasons from your kale plants.

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60 Seconds or Sow: Save Time, Grow Cucumbers, Squash & Peas in Cups as Transplants

60 Seconds or Sow: Save Time, Grow Cucumbers, Squash 

& Peas in Cups as Transplants 

In 60 seconds or so... I explain a concept of starting cucumbers, peas, squash and other vine crops in cups outdoors. This practice will save you weeks of time. While it is cool, you can start these 'warm' garden vegetables in cups before the garden is ready for them. They will grow over 3-5 weeks in your cups and provide you with great transplants. They can be popped  right into the garden after you harvest your cool weather crops.

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