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Dave\'s Garden Book Review: Tough Plants for Southern Gardens
It stands to reason if they can be attractive in these commercial environments, they will thrive in a home environment, cared for by a gardener.These plants are for the gardener who wants to sit back every now and then and enjoy their handiwork.
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El Segundo
Plant Profiles for New Gardeners: Cockscomb; Celosia argentea var. cristata
They grow well and are a bright spot near my back door.As they mature, small black seeds will start to develop along the lower part of the flowers. These plant profiles will feature time-tested seeds and plants that are easy to grow, but produce a great...
California
El Segundo
Plant Profiles for New Gardeners: Coleus
Even though coleus plants are perennials in their native lands, most gardeners tend to use them as annuals. Without a little guidance from seasoned veterans, they often choose seeds and plants that are more challenging than their budding skills can handle.
California
El Segundo
Plant Profiles for New Gardeners: Caladiums
These plant profiles will feature time-tested seeds and plants that are easy to grow, but produce a great show. Caladiums are very undemanding. New gardeners are often at a loss when it comes to choosing easy to grow plants.
California
El Segundo
Plant Profiles for New Gardeners: The Alba Rose
It is also easy to propagate via cuttings or dividing side shoots, making it a perfect pass-along plant. They hear stories about insect infestations, disease and rigorous pruning schedules that automatically give them pause when contemplating planting...
California
El Segundo
Plant Profiles for New Gardeners: Zinnias
This makes them ideal for children's gardens. Many new gardeners are starting to plan their first adventure into our crazy, wonderful world. Zinnia seeds are cheap and they come in a wide variety of shapes, sizes and colors.They are one of the easiest...
California
El Segundo
Plant Profiles For New Gardeners: Sempervirens tectorum, Hens and Chicks
Great for new gardeners, lazy gardeners and busy gardeners. It was thought to protect inhabitants from thunder and lightning strikes, so was a common sight planted on thatch and sod roofs.
California
El Segundo
Plant Profiles for New Gardeners: Daylilies
These plant profiles will feature time-tested seeds and plants that are easy to grow, but produce a great show. Most hybridzers time their plantings so that they can set their seedlings out in spring or early summer.
California
El Segundo
Prickly Panaceas: The Herbs Behind the Hype
The shrub can grow up to 15 feet tall with spheres of inconspicuous white flowers followed by balls of 1/2-inch diameter black berries.For medicinal purposes the inner root is preferred, though the bark and leaves are used as well.
California
El Segundo
How to Keep Tulips from Falling Over
If you use this technique you will never have a fallen tulip again.
California
Santa Monica
How to Keep a Rubber Tree Plant Outside
Move the plant back outside during the day when daytime temperatures rise for a week or so before moving it outside full time.Prune a young rubber plant to eliminate multiple trunks and encourage scaffold branches -- branches one-half the diameter of...
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Santa Monica
When to Plant Tomatoes in Missouri
Areas with higher elevations, such as the Ozark Plateau, tend to be cooler even though they are in the south, so tax day, April 15, is a good guideline. While there are no guarantees when it comes to weather, following a few standard guidelines can take...
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Santa Monica
How to Preserve Plumeria Flowers
Add them to corsages, hair arrangements or leis, which will keep for up to one day.Gently pick the plumeria flowers close to the bottom of the stem where they join the tree so as not to crush the five-pointed petals.Construct leis, hair arrangements or...
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Santa Monica
How to Make a Homemade Rat Trap
Rats infest homes and cause destruction to the areas of the house they live in. Position the bottle so the opening is an entrance. The rat can not escape once it enters because the toothpick prevents the barbwire from swinging outward.
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Santa Monica
How to Make Sour Grapes Sweet
Place them on a tray and freeze them for at least three hours. If you have an egg allergy, you can use an egg substitute.Pour 2 cups of white granulated sugar in another bowl. Unlike other fruits, grapes stop ripening once they are plucked from the vine.
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Santa Monica
Can You Use the Leaves of the Ginger Plant?
Of freshly chopped ginger leaves in stews or soups. Add them during the last five minutes of cooking to retain the texture of the leaves.Fresh and dried ginger leaves make a mild and delicious tea.
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Santa Monica
How to Grow Mushrooms in Buckets
Dump the plastic shavings out of the bucket after all the holes are drilled.Fill the bucket about half full with moistened growing media. This gives the mushrooms room to grow. Create humidity by misting the bucket daily or by setting the bucket in a...
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Santa Monica
How to Plant a \
Lay the "Topsy Turvy" on its side and put the root ball of the tomato plant through the bottom hole per instructions. How high you hang it depends on the type of tomato plant you buy.
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Santa Monica
How to Make Your Real Roses Last Forever
Push the end of the wire horizontally through the base of the rose, with about 2 inches of wire extending from the side of the stem base. Luckily, with a bit of time and knowhow, your roses can be preserved.
California
Santa Monica
What Are the Functions of Urea?
For medicine, urea is used for dermatology, as a diuretic and in barbiturates.Humans produce 30 g of urea a day, mostly in their urine and small amounts through sweating. Fifty-five years later, it became the first organic compound to be made synthetically...
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Santa Monica
The Potato: The World\'s Most Versatile Food
I can't think of a food product used in so many different ways: mashed, fried, boiled, au gratin, potato chips, and even used to make vodka. How many other foods are eaten regularly for breakfast, lunch and dinner?
California
El Segundo
How to Freeze Black-Eyed Peas or Cowpeas
Cover the pans with plastic wrap and place in the refrigerator for at least two hours, or until the peas are completely cooled.Package the cooled black-eyed peas in pint- or quart-sized containers, whichever is most convenient for your cooking style.
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Santa Monica
How to Ripen Butternut Squash
Squash is a common sight in many gardens. If left with no sunlight, squash will remain unripened.Turn the squash over periodically so that all sides of the vegetable get adequate sunlight to ripen.
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Santa Monica
How to Make a Homemade CO2 Generator
You can make your own CO2 generator with yeast and a sugar solution. Put on the cap and screw it on lightly. The yeast feed on the sugar and produce CO2 as a product of respiration.
California
Santa Monica
How to Freeze Peaches With a Vacuum Sealer
Toss the peach slices with lemon juice or powdered fruit preservative to coat all of the surfaces. The soft texture of peaches will require them to be frozen before sealing. Usually, this requires five medium to large peaches.
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Santa Monica
Are Coffee Grounds Good for Blueberry Plants?
Creating the ideal soil conditions will maximize the blueberry harvest and help the plants flourish. Most members of this family live only in North America and all these plants thrive in acidic soils.
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Santa Monica
How to Tell if It\'s a Morel Mushroom
Additionally, the stem of false morels is solid and continues all the way to the top of the mushroom's cap. The raised lattice-like ridges are highly discernable with deep, clearly defined cavities between ridges.
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Santa Monica