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The prairie was established to protect the prairie blazing star ( Liatris pycnostachya ) and is home to many rare and endangered Pennsylvania plant species as well as to the endangered massasauga rattlesnake.

Exhibiting your vegetables at the fair helps promote an appreciation for gardening. Once you've exhibited vegetables at the fair, you are likely to be on the mailing list in future years.While each vegetable judge brings his or her own subjective views...

Judging by the giggles and jeers, not too many people in Orange Country have ever seen a cow go to the bathroom. Next on the list for viewing were a couple of huge oxen. Urban farming has its limits.

If you've been wondering what's so great about being a subscriber at Dave's Garden, or thought, "why bother subscribing?", join me as I wander around for a day. Many of the forums are open to everyone, but you'll only be able to see the first post on...

This is because November typically signals the start of a drier time of year for most of the state's wheat-growing regions. The concern focuses on soil-moisture reserves, as the bulk of winter wheat is planted during September and October, Baughman says.

I planted it in the centre of the garden amongst. Using them as a cut flower also solves the problem of deadheading!!Sneezeweed, so named because early settlers ground up the leaves and used the powder as a "snuff", is highly attractive to butterflies.

A dishwasher is great for washing and sterilizing your empty jars before canning. Many people are under the incorrect assumption that once a vacuum is formed, no germs can live in there and no spoilage can occur.

The Christmas carol that resulted from this struggle mentions the ivy only in the first line. Holly shrubs were plentiful, one could often find ivy growing underneath in solid mats or twining up neighboring trees.

Water buffalo are often regarded as a precious inheritance. During his preschool years, Kimsoeun Seat watched over his grandparents' water buffalo in the eastern province of Kompong Cham.

A Style for Your Potager The style of the garden is completely up to you, although the typical European and early homesteading kitchen garden was often a four-square design. Keep them 4-feet wide at the most so you can reach the middle for harvesting...

They lay their eggs, which quickly hatch, on or inside the host plant's leaves. You know those squiggly lines you find on your crop foliage from time to time? The new larva will spend two or three weeks feeding on the leaves before they mature and drop...

In the morning, simply drain off the liquid and you've got such treats as fromage blanc, ricotta, mascarpone and many others. Ladle curd gently into a butter muslin lined colander, hang and drain 6-12 hours.

Gloria125 recommended this excellentsite that talks about making your own mycorrhiza. Ericoid mycorrihzal - associations seen in this order. In other words, the soil around a plant's root can be considered a living extension of it, in the majority of...

Sugar-making is also known as respiration or the "dark reactions," because it can occur when the sun is down. Some plants (sorghum, for example) can grow as much as a centimeter in one night.The same genes that regulate night growth in plants also induce...

According to Heinzen, when EPA made the data public earlier this year, it provided no context about its meaning. Although EIP was not involved in the collection of the data, Heinzen believes that researchers used the EPA definition of CAFO—feed lots...

From that time until this, whenever I have a spare hour or two in town, I take my camera to the Riverwalk to visit with my waterfowl friends, the Canada geese and the Mallard ducks.The mallards in town are very comfortable around humans and have learned...

If the goal is achieved, then cuttings are made and the plant will be given a name. But then again, when you have names like Tres' Bon, Blueberry Thrill and Light My Fire, how do you expect them to stick around?

Download and print the chart below as a handy reference for quick facts about these special chickens. Get more Hobby Farms downloads! Tags American Livestock Breeds Conservancy , chicken breeds , rare chickens

Angel's Trumpet and Oriental lilies are notorious for their amazing scents; just a few will fragrance my entire garden. Small trees, including the Japanese Stewartia and Virginia Magnolia (I have one of each) have pale blossoms that shine in the soft...

What tips do you have for other growers?*Be friendly. This information can help you to be successful long into the future. Ultimately, you want to show that you are offering a better product at a fair price.One of the most important parts to being successful...

It is also one of the smaller figures, and the least likely to be considered menacing by a fearful child.This is another hugely oversized figure. The bodies ofthe insects are constructed entirely from wicker-like withes, glued and varnished.

If they don't, she says, that “can knock them down [in placings].” Learning these standards takes time. They should know what a good sheep looks like and why, regardless of the breed.” Exhibitors taking fruits and vegetables to the fair also need...

The older kids find the right oils and fats in the soap making box, the 7-year-old gets out the bowls and digital scale, and the toddler gets out the spoons. Here are two simple recipes to get you started: How to Make Soap With Milk Oatmeal and Honey...

Some of the plants at the park include the following.Hueco Tanks is justly famous for its rock paintings but it is also a good place to go to view Chihuahuan Desert plant life. The park is best known for its ancient rock paintings.

A plant that grows quickly from seed, the leaves of the moonflower often extend 6 inches across, as do the solitary white blooms marked with a five-pointed star of a slightly different shade of white.The moonflower (Ipomoea alba), is related to the morning...

Survey Results The survey, which includes mention of about 7,600 breeds of cattle, pigs, sheep, poultry and other animals in 169 countries, reports that: 11% of the investigated breeds are now extinct (some having disappeared many decades ago), 16% are...

Like all other fermented foods—including beer , sauerkraut and cheese —you're working with a starter product and bacteria that do the work of fermentation, as well as time, temperature and equipment.