:( Good luck! They sound lovely.answers: Good question, (meaning I wasn't sure and was curious myself.) I knew who WOULD know something--darius, a DG writer, who's written articles on all of the major and some of the minor plant nutrients.
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If Egyptian growers are like American growers, they often offer young plants growing in black pots. To get your bougainvillea to climb the trellis, you will have to give it some support and direction.
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,...
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. Soil temperatures should be at least 50 or warmer when you plant trees and shrubs (warmer for conifers).
They are responding to the increased sunlight and space of the newly opened area. If your crepe flowers are distinctly different, then you would seem to have a valid complaint. There would be a number of chances for human error to occur in the labeling...
If you are contemplating something new that is marginal in your area, planting it on the south side of your home gives winter protection. It could mean putting a tomato cage over it and wrapping in burlap.
Not all of the seeds will germinate, but you should get some new little rose plants. We hope you find these questions (and answers, penned by our admins and writers) helpful as you grow your gardening knowledge!
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...
Furthermore, it's likely to get worse, I'm sorry to say. Let me guess, you're EXTREMELY bothered by poison ivy, too. I have also felt itchy after handling fuzzy trimmings from annual Black Eyed Susan plants.
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Occasionally we come across a question that we find particularly interesting or intriguing. The bananas that we find in the supermarket are hybrids and produce no seed. As carrielamont mentioned, many gardeners overwinter mature plants in a garage or...
I've lost seedlings more times that I care to think about myself. They need to have enough fertility and sunlight in the current year to make enough energy to store it over the winter and bloom the following year.
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. I buy them in September and plant them in a sunny spot for blooms all winter as long as the weather is not too cold...
Several nurseries on this list have reviews indicating that they might be what you are looking for. I like to lighten the mix by using half good-quality soil-less potting mix and half perlite.Leave a good long stub of bare neck when you cut the stem,...
Using colored pencils (you could use markers or crayons too), decide on your color scheme throughout the instant garden. Then, I hung the potted baskets of bright purple and pinkunder the large white tent that had been set up for food and drink and displayed...
If you have four feet of flower bed space against the garden shed, you probably only have room for four clumps of giant pinkthere. Its colors and patterns will never look the same as they did yesterday.
Use a hose, spray paint or flour to mark out and shape the bed. You can plant a flower bed any way you like – big or small, curved or straight, raised or flat – whatever. It starts with eliminating the grass as we did in the dig method.
Perhaps it is suffering from a dull shape or lack of direction. However, you can transform it into something more exciting simply by adding curves andthat mimic your individual personality.
The cinder blocks that you buy in the store today are actually concrete blocks and totally safe.Unless you're using antique cinder blocks, there should be no reason to worry, especially when cinder block gardening for vegetables.
Occasionally we come across a question that we find particularly interesting or intriguing. Swan Island Dahlias, a leading dahlia grower in the United States located in Canby, Oregon says dahlias are best fertilized with a low nitrogen fertilizer - like...
This can also keep the voles and moles away . In places colder than zone 9, amaryllis are sometimes grown in the ground in the summer and potted up and brought indoors for the winter.
These edible pears also pollinate D'Anjou : Bartlet, Bosc, Comice, d'Anjou, Seckel. In my country the fruits are picked up after the first frost, which doesn't damage them; moreover, it softens them a bit.', which are also growing in my country.
My coneflowers emerge with little purple leaves and shoots, but quickly turn green as sunlight gets their photosynthesis factories going. I've had daffodils blooming already and then it dropped into the teens.
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They may not bloom in the year of a spring move but should recover the following year. The lower end of the chilling-hours scale is 100 chill-hours. And there are reports of successful peony bloom in warm zones, with many cultivars.
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. Answers: Bulb2005, you should have transplanted your strawberry plants outside before it snowed, as long as the temperatures...
