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Win the War on Weeds!
To outwit weeds you'll need to wage a concerted campaign on several fronts, but it can be done, and without resorting to weedkillers. Perennial weeds continue growing for a number of years but have far-reaching roots, making them harder to control.
England
Liverpool
Free Mulch! How to Make It and Where to Get More
Best of all, mulch can be made – for free! – in your own garden. Most plants will thrive with a mulch of compost. They'll feed the lawn, ensuring it keeps producing more healthy growth for you to cut and use.
England
Liverpool
How to Create a Vegetable Garden on a Slope
I love the way plants stack up in a hillside garden, layer upon layer, so that it looks even more lush than it really is. The author's hillside garden in late summer Steel panels are trendy now, and they can last forever, as can some types of plastic...
England
Liverpool
5 Tips for Late Summer Planting Beds
Fall-sown legumes like winter peas boost soil nitrogen when allowed to grow until they begin to bloom in spring 3. Cool-season Cover Crops Parts of the garden that won't be planted until late spring are prime spots for growing cool-season cover crops...
England
Liverpool
How to Ripen Fruit Faster
Tomatoes, for example, need a minimum temperature of 10°C (50°F) to fully develop. This odorless, tasteless gas is the vital catalyst that turns under-ripe green fruit to red, yellow and many a color in between.
England
Liverpool
Keep Plum Trees Healthy and Productive With Summer Pruning
This is healthier for the tree, unless there is a recurring issue with silver leaf or other diseases. Bacterial canker affects plums, cherries and other trees in the Prunus family.
England
Liverpool
How to Dry Chili Peppers
The thin walls of the fruits make them quick and easy to dehydrate, ensuring a ready supply of crinkle-dry chilies to enjoy right up until next year's harvest. Fellow GrowVeg blogger Barbara also has a truly scrumptious recipe for chili paste – it comes...
England
Liverpool
Help Your Garden Survive a Summer Drought
You can use taller crops to shade shorter ones, but in scorching weather drastic action may be needed. The best setups use drip irrigation or soaker hoses to deliver water right at the base of plants, near the roots.
England
Liverpool
Grow Potatoes for a Christmas Crop
Potato foliage can be kept snug with an insulating layer of fleece, removed during the day to allow maximum sunlight penetration. Now prepare to unearth your spuds – a joyous moment indeed! Container-grown spuds can be upturned and the compost torn...
England
Liverpool
Growing Fruit: Why Thinning Creates a Better Harvest
The main benefit of thinning to the gardener is to give those fruits that remain the space they need to grow into bigger, healthier fruits. Early summer offers us a tempting taste of what's to come in the fruit garden.
England
Liverpool
5 Organic Controls for Greenhouse Whitefly
They appear from seemingly nowhere and colonize plants fast – they're certainly contenders for the most efficient-at-reproducing-and-spreading pest! How to Identify Greenhouse Whitefly For those unfamiliar with whitefly (lucky you!) here's a quick description...
England
Liverpool
6 Ways to Extend Your Harvests
Water-stressed plants quickly slow down. A regular liquid feed will result in better quality fruits for longer 4. Plants Related to this Article Zucchini Grow Guide Beans (Bush Snap) Grow Guide Pepper Grow Guide < All Guides
England
Liverpool
Fight Pests Without Using Bug Spray
Horticultural fleece can also be used. Also try trap-cropping using a pest's favorite food to make your crops less appealing to them. Plants Related to this Article Broccoli (Purple Sprouting) Grow Guide Broccoli Grow Guide Cabbage (Summer) Grow Guide...
England
Liverpool
Growing Cabbages from Sowing to Harvest
When you sow depends on what type of cabbage you're growing. Savoy cabbages are exceptionally hardy Where to Grow Cabbage Many cabbage varieties are incredibly hardy and will tolerate below-freezing temperatures.
England
Liverpool
Make the Most of Your Summer Garden
Avid gardeners are busy gardeners. They contribute to light pollution and diminish our ability to admire nature's light show, the stars. Sit the smaller pot inside the larger pot, levelling up the rims by pouring sand into the base of the big pot till...
England
Liverpool
Try Asian Radishes this Fall
Photo courtesy of All-America Selections Award Enter the Dragons – Colorful Chinese Radishes Often called Chinese radishes and introduced to western home gardeners a only a few years ago, ‘Red Dragon' and ‘Pink Dragon' are refinements of the old...
England
Liverpool
3 Ways to Use Up Your Glut
Chutneys are simply magnificent, capable of storing in the cupboard for many months. There are, of course, many other ways to preserve some of the growing season's generosity (a kinder word than ‘glut', which sounds a little ungrateful!).
England
Liverpool
Growing Rutabagas for a Bumper Fall Harvest
The most stalwart members of the turnip tribe, rutabagas are a rustic cross between wild turnip and cultivated cabbage that came about in Scandinavia, Russia or perhaps Lithuania in the late Middle Ages.
England
Liverpool
Saving Seeds from Beans, Peppers, Onions...And More!
Scrape out the seeds from ripe chili peppers then dry them before storing Saving Pepper & Tomato Seeds The seeds of tomatoes and peppers are ready when the fruits themselves are good for eating.
England
Liverpool
Butter Daisy, a Low Maintenance Annual
It begins blooming almost as soon as it emerges from the ground, and it stays in bloom until frost kills it.In a search for possibilities, I visited a nearby nursery. Even though these students progressed to the seventh grade, I found a few of them sneaking...
California
El Segundo
Plant Profiles For New Gardeners: Sempervirens tectorum, Hens and Chicks
The 'mother' plant with the smaller babies surrounding it is how the common name 'hens and chickens' came about and the various sizes of the plants in a grouping is very attractive, either in the garden or in a container.
California
El Segundo
Plant Profiles for New Gardeners: Zinnias
If you have your heart set on giant red flowers or the neon combination of purple and chartreuse, chances are, it is available.Zinnias are surprisingly drought-hardy when established.
California
El Segundo
Nicking Plant Seeds: Why Should You Nick Seed Coats Before Planting
Nicking seeds before planting helps the seeds absorb water, which signals the plant embryo inside to begin the germination process. It's important to know how to nick flower seeds as well as other plant seeds before starting your garden.So, why should...
Ohio
Willoughby
Seed Pods Are Soggy – Why Are My Seed Pods Mushy
Enlarged seeds, and cracks on the seed coat, also indicate sprouting.You cannot dry and store seeds that are in different stages of germination. Tan or black seeds hold more promise.
Ohio
Willoughby
What Is Reseeding: How To Manage Self-Seeders In Gardens
Seeds fall or get scattered by animals, birds and wind. If they land in a favorable location, all that is left is to wait for the warm season and they germinate and make more of the original plant.
Ohio
Willoughby
Natural Rooting Methods – Organic Rooting Options For Cuttings
You can make your ownCut a few new shoots from a willow and slice them into 1 inch (3 cm) pieces.Steep the willow pieces in water for a few days to create a willow tea.Dip your cuttings in the tea directly before planting them, and their survival rate...
Ohio
Willoughby
What Are Plantable Containers: Gardening With Biodegradable Plant Containers
How long it takes the container to degrade, climate, soil, and cost.freestar.queue.push(function() { googletag.display("div-gpt-ad-300x250-ATF-1"); });Plantable pots for gardening make transplanting quicker and easier and can be used for ornamental and...
Ohio
Willoughby