Root Crop News Today

Wisconsin is the number one producer of the crop, producing 98% percent of all cultivated Ginseng grown in the United States and 10% of the world’s supply.

Root crops can still be enjoyed during the winter as long as a proper sustainable solution, such as root cellars, will be employed. Read more here.

If you missed out on growing a summer vegetable garden – or want to extend the bounty you have -- its time to start planning. In most temperate regions, the

DEAR AMOR: Sometimes I impulse-buy plants without prior research. So, I bought two cells of sweet potato starters. Can I break this plant up into multiple slips and plant, or

  Salazar, Nursery Manager “Using regular soil which is sieved, soil and sand and humus. The soil is sieved, the sand as well. And Humus as you may know is castings from the worm that we grow here, the California worm. In this case we are using two parts of soil, one part of sand and half part of humus. We mix this together and that is how we are replacing a commercial product which we call the germinating mix.”   This process has saved the Ministry 60,000 dollars. Humus is the key compon...