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You can trim the long thick roots to a little less than the depth of your container and leave the small surface roots for anchoring your plant. Gardeners need gardens! We need to get our hands dirty long before spring arrives.

13 Apr 2007leungschineseherbnews.blogspot.com/2007/04/luffa-for-health.html 4 Dec 2008Si Gua Luo - Dried Vegetable Sponge. It is sought after for its sedative, anti-inflammatory, analgestic, and detoxicant properties.These fascinating and useful luffa...

Many of the forums are open to everyone, but you'll only be able to see the first post on some of my links; even that peek will give you a good idea of what you are missing. Spend a day with me here at Dave's Garden.

I have been told that there was not a yard to be found inthat was not given, in part or full, to a victory garden. These gardens also gave many a worried mother and father something to fill their time with during the long months of waiting for their sons...

They each serve their own purpose and they each have their own personality. The Goodwill Garden in Taylor, Michigan has to be one of my all time favorite community gardens. Community gardens come in all shapes and sizes.

I teased most of the soil off of the roots and filled the pots with the gravel.The larger pots give my plants room to grow and the gravel keeps things clean and neat.Place your water garden in its permenant home before adding the plants and filling it...

In my many visits to this garden I don't think I've seen anyone younger than 70 years old in this garden, yet these are some of the most immaculate that I have ever seen, not a weed in site.

The first piece of property was taken over for the expansion of a mega casino in downtown Detroit. An idea was born: let's teach many of the residents how to grow their own produce in an urban setting.Several organizations banded together to establish...

Very basically, the word "zen" means to meditate, to observe or to see. A zen garden is a place for reflection, meditation and enlightenment. Old equals interesting and wisdom.his, in my opinion, is found in some of the best gardens.

Her rose garden still stands on the mansion site.Local school groups from kindergarteners to high school seniors are almost daily visitors to the area.There is a large sugar bush on site where each spring sap is drawn for maple trees and cooked into maple...

We were walking in the woods one day and there was this beautiful, hollow log. We've all used the normal containers for plants. Half barrels, window boxes, etc. The photo of the planted tub to the left was generously donated by DG member Candyce.

There's always next year to try again... I will make more of an effort to do not-so-fun maintenance-type chores, such as deadheading.I have tons of beautiful perennials that would perform so much better if I just paid a little attention to them.

The hens and chicks originally came from DG member and dear friend, 'Yardbird' nearly a decade ago.Cassidy is arranging the plants in their new home, making sure to leave room for their eventual growth.

I like to use a mixture of half potting mix and half ompost with some worm casting added for good measure. I use a tomato cage inserted in the soil for my cukes to climb on.I like to spray paint my crates but that's not necessary.The first step is to...

Remember to use lighting in your home garden for evening enjoyment.I didn't think that this fence and archway could ever be improved, but the addition of the Chihuly glass takes it over the top!, as you come around a bend in the path.

This meant digging out a little more in some places, or shimming with bricks in others.The angle pieces were anchored in place with the "L"-shaped rebar driven through holes burned through the angle sides.In this close up of one of the anchors, you can...

You can organize a group to help delegate responsibilities to prevent a big project from becoming too overwhelming.Your sun clock will be uniquely personal and meaningful. They can also be painted onto asphalt and concrete pavements (see sidebar photos...

I'm terribly allergic to bumblebee stings. There is only one Rule, but it is vital: Next year's goals must be achievable and realistic.If you currently do not garden, and put "Create a tropical paradise" on your list for next year, you will probably be...

Likewise, if you are in the area and people stop, thinking you have a yard art store, you have way too much garden art. The more time you have to spend taking in and out the season's worth of art, the more time you are taking from the garden and that,...

Water flows from a fountain in the garden's center, and benches sit in the shade beneath the 130 foot pergola, which is not, surprisingly, covered in climbing roses. The day I visited, the garden featured topiary dinosaurs,, a sensory garden, and a small...

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) I've arranged them in categories, with each category representing some basic aspect of gardening.Questions?

Pea gravel is also available at garden centers.New or used pedestal birdbath with a fairly deep bowl (3.5" or more): New ones are available at garden centers and home improvement stores.

Late in the season, I begin to feel a part of it all, down to the very small.: "March 1" "Equinox" "April Fool's Song" "Spring Ahead" "A thousand little spiders" "The peepers sing" "May Breeze" "Ephemera"

Fiacre's feast day is a matter of debate. Visitors to Fiacre's garden brought seeds and plants from afar, and his gardens became famous throughout Europe.After his death in 670 A.D., people who visited his monastery claimed that it had healing power.

Daylilies will do that too, so I cut them back to roughly 8 inches when they are finishedblooming, except for the repeat bloomers. Besides, fall is cold and dreary, while in the spring I can feel the warmth of the sun on my back while I'm puttering in...

This way I avoided overwatering , which could make them go rotten. Who would have guessed I would be growing onions and potatoes, together with other vegetables, in my own garden? Spacing is about 3 to 4inches between the sets, but I was careless when...

It is grown to be used as livestock feed.I've been growing in straw bales for the past 5 or 6 years years. You can pull out the grain seed relatively easily from straw bales, but grass is much tougher to remove.Straw is the stem of a grain plant.