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What Is An Instant Garden: Tips For Making A Garden Overnight
We'll just have the reception in the backyard here,” I quickly chimed in, hoping to stop her tears.“But mom, no offense, this is no English Garden,” she said, clearly worried.I was going to have to come up with a sophisticated, charming, not to...
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How To Start Your Flower Garden
Or make up your own theme using my next suggestion.freestar.queue.push(function() { googletag.display("div-gpt-ad-300x250-ATF-1"); });Once you have an idea of which direction you want to take your masterpiece, grab a piece of graph paper and some colored...
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Seed Starting 101: Seedling Heat Mats and Inexpensive Alternatives
This isn't the time to just throw something together and see if it works. Flowers like Torenia (Wishbone Flower), Geraniums, and Wave Petunias are among the first on my sowing schedule, followed by peppers, then byWhether you buy a seedling heat mat or...
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Tiny Kitchen Gardens
You can have fresh vegetables in just a few days from tiny kitchen counter gardens. Depending on how prolific your log is, you may indeed come out ahead financially if grocery store prices continue to rise.This mushroom patch required temperatures between...
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Fun feature: Ask-a-Gardener
Gardening is both art and science, with some luck and skill thrown in for good measure. If you return them to their usual diet, they will return to their normal size.The real question, to me, is about the other flowers and plants you put in.
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Ask-a-Gardener: Your Gardening Questions Answered
Clivia is in the same family as Amaryllis (Hippeastrum) those popular bulbs with the huge red flower on a stalk. Occasionally we come across a question that we find particularly interesting or intriguing.
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Fun feature: Ask-a-Gardener
Gardening is both art and science, with some luck and skill thrown in for good measure. The thinking behind the practice is that since peppers and tomatoes are both in the Solonaceae family, the heat from the peppers could migrate to the tomato fruit...
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Fun feature: Ask-a-Gardener
It depends on too many uncontrollable variables like how much you took off and how old the bush is and what the weather is like this year and how many siblings your father had. The most common and most trailing choices are the perennial Vincas, both major...
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Fun feature: Ask-a-Gardener
Since you'll be planting trees, the rootball will take up quite a bit of space. Critterologist wrote a wonderful article about ornamental sweet potatoes that is quite informative and you can read itRemember, if you have a gardening question that you would...
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Fun feature: Ask-a-Gardener
Cut it too close, and you'll get nothing for your efforts. Iron sulfate and gypsum or other products for alkaline soil might be found at larger nurseries or stores that sell farming supplies.
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Fun feature: Ask-a-Gardener
Other questions may be moved to one of our other forums so your fellow members can help you. If your question is chosen for this feature, you can be sure you've helped others with the same question.Marie Harrison, (can2grow) and Melody answer the question:Remember,...
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Fun feature: Ask-a-Gardener
Gardening is both art and science, with some luck and skill thrown in for good measure. Several studies indicate drought brings on early fall color, but I'm not able to determine if experts suggest excess moisture does as well.
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Fun feature: Ask-a-Gardener
Occasionally we come across a question that we find particularly interesting or intriguing. I hope the source showed you a realistic picture of what your plant was to look like when blooming.
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Fun feature: Ask-a-Gardener
When the worst of the winter is over, remove the bucket and pull the mulch back so your plants can wake up. A big part of what attracts people to Dave's Garden has always been our forums, where gardeners ask and answer questions for one another.
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Fun feature: Ask-a-Gardener
How about a hydrangea? Rose seeds do not like heat for germination, so think of them as green peas that are planted in early spring. We hope you find these questions (and answers, penned by our admins and writers) helpful as you grow your gardening knowledge!
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Fun feature: Ask-a-Gardener
Make sure to keep all your light-sensitive indoor plants rotated so they don't lean too much to one side.Finally, I like the asymmetrical, off-center look, but that's just me.http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/f/plantid/all/Remember, if you have...
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Fun feature: Ask-a-Gardener
But you do have to approach them properly. I don't know if it's a true allergy or just that fuzz. Cut your stems with a sharp knife about an inch below a leaf joint and make sure that you have another leaf joint above it.
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Should I give up on it, or what should I do? A big part of what attracts people to Dave's Garden has always been our forums, where gardeners ask and answer questions for one another.
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Fun feature: Ask-a-Gardener
You could have your soil tested to see if there is a lack of nutrients or a PH problem as well.answers: I don't personally know the answer, but I recall reading an article about some crazy woman dragging banana trees out of the basement every summer.
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Fun feature: Ask-a-Gardener
I've lost seedlings more times that I care to think about myself. Occasionally we come across a question that we find particularly interesting or intriguing. For more advice, here is awritten by critterologist that will help you learn to pervent the condition.answers:...
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Fun feature: Ask-a-Gardener
So much of plant health depends on individual situations, and individual gardeners' methods (and madnesses: some love to water, others neglect for weeks.) Not knowing whether you are looking for a potted plant for indoors, or a garden plant, I'll give...
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Fun feature: Ask-a-Gardener
You don't have to put it in a larger pot necessarily, just give it fresh potting mix. Remove at least a couple rows of leaves (fewer leaves on a cutting means less water loss or wilting while new roots are forming), and try to make the plant more symmetrical...
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Seed Starting for Beginners (And Anyone Who Likes to Start Seeds)
Does it need to be started from seed indoors, or can it be directly sown in the garden?Now is the time to learn as much as possible about each plant you want to grow. In order to assure high percentage germination, it is important to maintain these temperatures...
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Seed Packets, What does it all mean?
These are excellent guidelines if you intend to plant seeds so that they will mature in succession. This will give you some idea on how much seed to buy and also how much to plant to produce the desired quantity of crops.If you're planning to can or preserve...
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More On Seed Starting for Beginners (and Anyone Who Likes to Start Seeds)
The only drawback to this method is that you can't tell how thickly you're sowing the seeds.After stratification, place the seed pots in a sunny window or under lights for germination.Once you have successfully started your seeds and transplanted them...
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Seed Starting For Beginners: How, When and Why
Many garden centers or big box stores have a limited selection of plants to choose from. The best way to combat this condition is to use high quality starting mix. I could wait a little longer but I prefer to have larger transplants.Before you plant your...
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Visiting the Cirque de Salazie
In 1840 a plant was imported from Mexico which boosted the cirque cultivation and is still of prime importance nowadays; the chouchou (see tThe alligator pear is widely grown throughout the cirque, often on vine arbors which allow an easier collecting.
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