Winter’s Bounty: A Growing Dome Gardener’s Guide to Growing Brassicas
Learn everything about growing brassicas such as broccoli, cauliflower, and romanesco in your dome greenhouse.
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Feel the Beat on Growing Beets in Your Dome
Do you want to grow beets in your dome? Follow along as we drop the beat on growing beets! Learn tips for growing beautiful beets in a dome greenhouse. Along with gardening tips, we'll share the history of beets, fun trivia and health information.
Growing Saffron – The World’s Most Valuable Spice
Saffron is one of the world's most expensive spices. Learn about growing saffron, saffron care and how to harvest this spice.
Growing Fennel in a Greenhouse
Interested in growing fennel in a greenhouse? Discover tips on planting, growing, and harvesting fennel in this comprehensive guide along with health benefits and trivia about fennel.
Growing Peppers: Some Like It Hot, Some Not
Growing peppers is easy once you master some simple requirements: sunlight, spacing and water. Growing Peppers Growing peppers is a matter of taste…literally. Do you want hot peppers, medium, mild or sweet? No matter what kind they all require a long, warm growing season. Let’s dive into pepper science! There are many types of peppers...
Growing Garlic: A Garden Superhero
Interested in growing garlic in a greenhouse? Discover tips on planting, growing, and harvesting garlic in this comprehensive guide along with health benefits and trivia about garlic.
Growing Sweet Potatoes: Easy as Sweet Potato Pie!
Sweet potatoes are a great addition to your dome greenhouse. They are delicious, nutritious and will benefit from the long growing season a dome greenhouse provides.
Growing Lettuce in a Greenhouse
These days it is even more important to be able to grow your own lettuce as crops in California’s Salinas Valley are currently fighting Impatiens necrotic spot virus, or INSV, which is mainly spread by thrips. Pythium wilt is another crop disease that attacks lettuce, generally along with INSV causing lettuce to wilt or completely collapse. We recommend planting lettuce as this disease may affect its availability since California grows approximately 70% of the lettuce consumed in the US. There has never been a better time to grow lettuce in your backyard!
Growing Rosemary in a Greenhouse
Growing rosemary from seed in a greenhouse can take a few weeks for germination. Propagating plants from an established rosemary bush is a quicker method and you can be ready to plant in two weeks. Let us teach you how to grow rosemary successfully in your greenhouse. With our expert advice, you will tip the scales in your favor.
Growing Basil in a Greenhouse
Growing basil in a greenhouse is a tricky balance. They don't like things too hot or too cold, and while they repel some common pests, such as hornworms and flies, they are susceptible to problems like aphids and Japanese beetles. Let us teach you how to grow basil successfully in your greenhouse. With our expert advice, you will tip the scales in your favor.
Growing Celery in a Greenhouse
Celery seeds are tiny and can take up to 21 days to germinate. However, soaking celery seeds in warm water overnight will speed germination. Growing your celery inside a Growing Dome or starting seeds indoors will give you a significant head start to celery season.
September Plant of the Month the Incredible, Edible, Fig
What The Fig? Check out our article: How to Grow Figs in a Greenhouse! If you are like the majority of people, you may not be acquainted with the fig except for maybe a fig newton or perhaps used as a prehistoric fig leaf loin cloth in the days before underwear. All joking aside figs...
How to Grow Carrots in a Greenhouse
Carrot Daucus carota is an edible plant from the Apiaceae family. Carrot seeds should be direct sown in your Dome in spring or fall. They grow best in the center zone of your Dome in sandy loam soils that are well drained and prefer a lot of sun in the cooler seasons. The seeds are tiny, and seedlings should be thinned to 3" apart and can be harvested 50-75 days from seed.
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