How To Grow A Beard

And on the way back we will check to see if the canyonists folks are abseiling down or not! And yes it seems they are--do you see how small they seem to be from here? Most people live in the main towns of Salazie and Hell-Bourg, and in smaller villages...

Can anyone say, "Procrastinator"?A testament to the fortitude of the iris, these guys have lived like this over several seasons. Yes, it was I who left them in the cardboard box ...

(road flares are incredibly hot as they melt, and the melting product can cause severe third degree burns should you let them get on you)So, what I did was locate a gopher hole (not difficult in my yard) and dig it up a ways until I could find where it...

Clivia is in the same family as Amaryllis (Hippeastrum) those popular bulbs with the huge red flower on a stalk. We hope you find these questions (and answers, penned by our admins and writers) helpful as you grow your gardening knowledge!

Seedlings are not generally a problem either. There are many opinions on the subject and quite a bit of mis-information on the internet with complicated instructions. This will produce a happier garden, as opposed to who your veggies' neighbors are.

You can read DG member feedback on almost any plant by checking the PlantFiles. Here's a list of plants I am either familiar with, or sounded like candidates when I looked through my Encyclopedia of Annuals and Perennials.

This is sometimes called "planting on 28 inch centers," ( or whatever the measurement may be.) Planting 28 inches apart will certainly assure ample growing room for those plants. They seem quite happy and I've had better luck with this method, rather...

If so you must be taking good care of it. Once branches are long enough, tie them to the trellis to get the plant going in a vertical direction. Then DO NOT plant it in the garden in midsummer.

We hope you find these questions (and answers, penned by our admins and writers) helpful as you grow your gardening knowledge! Occasionally we come across a question that we find particularly interesting or intriguing.

It is possible that you may have a bit of leaf burn from the fertilizer, but it shouldn't amount to any lasting harm.As long as the tips of your branches remain alive, you should be fine.

This book is also unique in that it has a section for plants normally grown in containers, which Mr. Rushing lovingly dubs ‘porch plants'.head up the list of plants that happily spend their lives in various cachepots or containers.

They were coming up in a cut along a trail, where there were few other plants to compete with them.It is fascinating to watch the recovery of the chaparral after a fire. I hope the source showed you a realistic picture of what your plant was to look like...

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. If you are contemplating something new that is marginal in your area, planting it on the south side of your home...

It is hard work loading in that organic stuff but it will eventually pay off!You may have the perfect yard to grow several perennial Mediterranean herbs as well as several annual herbs! They need good drainage that a rocky soil environment would give.

Make sure you are treating your jade properly - lots of light, not too much water, as one reader commented "give it conditions just like Southern California." Is there a chance it could be stretching to get to the light?

Dip the lower end into rooting hormone (not necessary, but it really helps the success rate) You can get it at any big box garden store and I keep a couple containers around all the time.

The sewer line is rather new (about 6 years old) and made of plastic and not clay or steel. Should I give up on it, or what should I do? We hope you find these questions (and answers, penned by our admins and writers) helpful as you grow your gardening...

Adds: There is a 'bush' version of the popular Sugar Baby watermelon. They are blooming now, but all of a sudden for the first time ever, I see dime size holes in the leaves. Take a small paintbrush or a Q-tip and lift pollen from the anthers of a male...

Press them lightly into the mix. These plant profiles will feature time-tested seeds and plants that are easy to grow, but produce a great show. Cockscomb seeds are inexpensive and are often found on the bargain racks at the local big box store.

Some gardeners trim their iris foliage after the first hard fall freeze. In midsummer, they migrate down to the rhizome. Larvae burrow into the leaves. For more information about imidacloprid and bees, seein 2001.

Most gardeners tend to kill the seedlings with kindness and water them to death. A fungus attacks your seedlings at the soil line and they will wilt, rot off, or become stunted and refuse to thrive.

Answers: Since you're growing 'Bouquet Dill', which is NOT a nice compact bouquet but a back-row border plant of up to 6 feet tall, and since it's now late November and you live in Maine, unless you re envisioning an entire basement herb garden, I suggest...

Answers: We have knowledgeable gardeners who will be delighted to assist you at Dave's Garden. Ourforum is perfect for questions on starting plants from seed. Scraping the neck in a few places with your fingernail can help roots to form.

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.

I placed the pot on my desk and the light from my study lamp was enough for the little plants to sprout. Even though coleus plants are perennials in their native lands, most gardeners tend to use them as annuals.

Gardeners in frost-free zones can leave their caladium tubers in the ground all year if they are planted in a well-drained area and gardeners in cold weather zones either lift their tubers in the fall to store indoors over winter or treat them as annuals.