How To Grow Soapwort

I was happily surprised to find many of his suggestions growing in my own garden and the image showing the cover of the book is just a very few of the armload of varieties that I clipped for the shot.

Each head will produce several hundred seed and while you can separate the seeds by color, if they have been grown close to each other, chances are, you'll get several colors from one plant.These are easy to grow plants and new gardeners should have a...

These colorful plants also pair well with caladiums, ferns and begonias. I like to use them on my east-facing front porch. Just remember that they may get leggy and need more pinching back and pests like mealybugs and whitefly might find them tasty.

The containers on my porch are large and I usually plant between 10 and 15 #1 size tubers in each pot. Caladiums pair well with coleus, impatiens, trailing begonias and ferns if you prefer mixed containers.Some gardeners like to plant caladiums in the...

Without a little guidance from seasoned veterans, they often choose seeds and plants that are more challenging than their budding skills can handle. However, the same rose in my friend Kathleen's garden in upstate New York is much smaller.

This will ensure that the bouquet is colorful and long-lasting.Butterflies love zinnias too. New gardeners can plant them with confidence that they will grow and bloom reliably and fast.

These plant profiles will feature time-tested seeds and plants that are easy to grow, but produce a great show. Many new gardeners are starting to plan their first adventure into our crazy, wonderful world.

Many cultivars are affordable as well and hundreds of varieties cost less than $10 for a double fan division. Without a little guidance from seasoned veterans, they often choose seeds and plants that are more challenging than their budding skills can...

If you use this technique you will never have a fallen tulip again.

If you're planting in a container, choose one with at least one drainage hole.Avoid western exposures for a rubber tree plant -- in addition to being intolerant of freezing temperatures, it suffers when temperatures climb to 115 degrees Fahrenheit and...

Heirloom varieties, those that have been cultivated for more than 50 years, have an old-fashioned taste, but typically take longer to mature -- often needing more than 80 days to flower, fruit and ripen.Newer, hybrid varieties have been developed over...

Plumeria flowers, also known as plumeria rubra and frangipani, are tropical flowers planted to scent gardens and are used in the making of leis because they are less prone to bruising.

Peanut butter attracts rats and mice to the location.Place the bottle in an area where rat infestation has occurred. Place the toothpick high enough to stop the barbwire from swinging outward but low enough for the rat to be able to step over it.Put a...

Place them on a tray and freeze them for at least three hours. Working in batches of five or 10, drop the grapes in the egg mixture, blot them dry to remove the excess egg, then roll them in the sugar.Arrange the sugared grapes on decorative trays and...

Or, add them to stir fry dishes to take the flavor up a notch. Of freshly chopped ginger leaves in stews or soups. If you don't always have access to fresh ginger leaves, use them dried.

When you see fuzz start to appear, indicating the spawn is colonizing the media, remove the bag and cover the bucket with a lid or just leave the plastic bag cover over the bucket.Place the bucket in a humid environment at a temperature around 70 degrees...

Also, check to see if it has slow release or other fertilizers added to it. Leave enough space between the hook and surrounding plants or structures to allow for the size of a mature tomato plant and the "Topsy Turvy" plant bag.Place the tomato seedling...

Spray the roses lightly with aerosol hair spray to strengthen their petals. Cut the long end of the wire to the desired length, then wrap the wire with florist's tape.Gather a small bunch of about three to five roses with their foliage removed.

It is best used during the cold weather for sod and winter wheat, and best if applied before it rains. This is how urea is the most useful and used mostly as a fertilizer, in some medications and industrial-made compounds.Urea was first discovered in...

Potato starch is combined with other nutrients and ingredients such as rice and vitamins, to form a very nutritious food supplement to feed the hungry.Because of its light weight, one million servings of food can be shipped in a 40-foot cargo container.

Turn the heat down to medium, or lower if necessary, to keep the liquid at a lightly bubbling simmer. Bring it to a rolling boil over high heat.Dump the black-eyed peas into the boiling water and cook them for two full minutes.Pour the cooked peas back...

Squash must have sunlight in order to ripen. The water-bleach mixture will help prevent the squash from rotting.Place the butternut squash in a sunny location in your home. The green lines on unripened butternut squash will fade and the squash will have...

If you use 1/4-inch tubing, drill the hole with a 3/16-inch drill bit.Feed enough tubing through the cap so to extend two inches into the bottle when the cap is on. The level should come to an inch below the tubing when you place the cap with the tubing...

Cool the syrup to room temperature.Fill the vacuum bags half way with peaches. Return the sealed bags to the freezer for up to one year. Peel the skin off, remove the pits and slice enough peaches to yield one qt.

Blueberries belong to the heath plant family that includes cranberries, bilberries, huckleberries, azaleas and rhododendrons. Most members of this family live only in North America and all these plants thrive in acidic soils.

In this article I will introduce you to their other close cousin, the soapworts. While the soapworts offer less variety than the campions and catchflies, they do have some rather attractive members that are well worth seeking out.

Both the stem and cap on morels are completely hollow.Inspect the cut stem of the mushroom. Morels have a cap that flares out from the top of the stem and almost immediately begins to taper to a rounded top.Examine the distinctively identifying irregular...