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Those send runners out every year which will hang down two or three feet. 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.

The ultimate height and spacing numbers are also a range of what a gardener can expect. If the vines get too lanky, trim the tops and start again. Sweet potatoes from the grocery store make a great houseplant too.

We hope you find these questions (and answers, penned by our admins and writers) helpful as you grow your gardening knowledge! If so you must be taking good care of it. Plant in mid July and you would have just three months of growing season for frost...

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However, you are from Halifax, Nova Scotia, and the average first frost for your area is October 20, which makes October planting risky at best. Once you begin experiencing regular frosts, your soil temperatures will drop, even though snow is still a...

However, there seems no way to guarantee that bees won't visit the flowers in your butterfly garden.Here are a few suggestions based on what I've read:Grow plants as butterfly larval food sources and hope to see butterflies as they search for egg-laying...

With just a few preparations, you can conceivably increase the climate area where a plant is growing as much as a couple of zones. I have some scarlet milkweed that I'm going to try and over-winter in the ground, so we're in the same boat.

They do need 90 days of stratification, which means they'll need to spend most of the winter in your refrigerator crisper.Dampen a thick paper towel with water and drip a bit of hydrogen peroxide on it to help prevent mold.Fold your seeds inside the paper...

Gardening is both art and science, with some luck and skill thrown in for good measure. We hope you find these questions (and answers, penned by our admins and writers) helpful as you grow your gardening knowledge!

There are sticky traps you can get at a nursery or argicultural center that you can put in and around susceptible species to pick up on early infestations before they get out of control.

Other questions may be moved to one of our other forums so your fellow members can help you.Thanks to Joan for the Lilac image and palmbob for the palm image. Should I give up on it, or what should I do?

An unpollinated squash will grow to about the size you indicate and then simply dry up and drop off. If you see little silvery trails on the topsoil, that is a sure sign you have slugs.

If they are not crowded and have enough fertility, daffodils can make one bloom stem for each bulb every year.adds: Your daffodil bulbs might be planted too deep. Right now you can not do anything to make them bloom this year.

I'd trim it back pretty hard( to about 12")and mound up leaves or mulch over the stems this first winter. So much of plant health depends on individual situations, and individual gardeners' methods (and madnesses: some love to water, others neglect for...

It can't take up water until it grows new roots, and meanwhile extra humidity around it will keep it from wilting. There are several free access forums where your specific questions will be answered quickly and accurately.

Whether you've suffered from a sudden loss of plants, are having difficulty booking garden space for a special event, or simply lack a green thumb, then creating instant gardens may be just the thing for you.

Whether you have 50 or 500 square feet of area that you would like to plant with flowers, the process should be fun and enjoyable. Be sure to observe if the site you want to use getsor mostly shade, as that will drastically change the types of flowers...

Where do you begin? Let's look at how to create a flower bed.So you want to build a flower bed. Take a stroll around your property and choose a suitable location. There are several ways to accomplish this – dig it out, apply herbicide or smother it...

Whether you are just starting a garden or rejuvenating an existing one, giving it life can be as simple as changing its overall shape.Even if the garden is filled with beautiful plants and other features, a dull or unimaginative layout can quickly turn...

Cinder blocks haven't been mass produced with fly ash in the U.S. for 50 years, though. Just do one layer. Want your plants higher and easier to reach? This should keep the bed from sliding around.

When they start to show some growth, pinch each of the growing tips to encourage branching. Specific mint varieties must be started from cuttings, but "generic" spearmint and peppermint seeds are available.adds: I had about the same exact thoughts on...

Put near as bright a light as possible.For Russ15; 1) why were roots exposed? Those grown outdoors will typically bloom in the spring, though I have had rogue plants rebloom in the summer or fall.

Last summer was the first when it bloomed and fruited more than a few cherries.adds: I've inserted links to our Plantfiles pages for these cultivars and we have participating vendors attached to each of them, so you can choose a mail order vendor for...

If they are in bloom, 30's won't faze them but teens might cause some damage. For the most part, vegetable seeds need to either be started inside, or planted directly in the ground after danger of frost is past.

Other questions may be moved to one of our other forums so our fellow members can help you. 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.

And site the peony in a colder microclimate of your yard, if you can. The lower end of the chilling-hours scale is 100 chill-hours. So there should be a form and color available that would suit your needs within the genus.answers: "You should fertilize...

No wonder you want to plant them!contributors suggest that these will sprout readily in your climate, particularly if you help the outer coating to soften by soaking your seeds overnight.