How To Make A Herb Garden

Females need damp soil to deposit their eggs and since their life span is only about a week, it is possible to stop the cycle.Sometimes a layer of sand on top of the potting medium helps.

It comes in a powder or granules (maybe other forms too), so you should check the distributor's suggestions for best use of their particular product. I think sweetgum balls will break down in a couple of seasons, just like pine cones, fir needles, and...

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. (Joke.) These shrubs are pretty tough and it WILL be back.answers: There are some things I'd like to know before...

Most often, the middle numbers are the optimum growing zone or PH. Since you'll be planting trees, the rootball will take up quite a bit of space. They seem quite happy and I've had better luck with this method, rather than potting them up in soil.

That gives the roots a milder environment than in a pot above ground. Excessive plant food can also burn leaf tips. This is more of a problem with chemical plant foods than with organic plant foods.This may not be an option for you, but I also collect...

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If you're not familiar with its appearance, it can look like a problem. Once you begin experiencing regular frosts, your soil temperatures will drop, even though snow is still a ways off.If you are choosing a plant from your local nursery, what condition...

If your crepe flowers are distinctly different, then you would seem to have a valid complaint. Butterflies also visit certain plants and trees to lay eggs. Color is such a subtly finicky thing with some of us, myself included.

Answers: The term ‘winter protection' means to give your plant just a little help to survive a harsh winter. If your plants can be cut back, as mine can, cut them back to a few inches above the ground and mound mulch over the stems.

If you'll clean the hip material off of your seeds, you should be fine. To cover that all, one inch deep, would take 20 cubic feet of material, or about ten average mulch bags full.

I'd say your jade plant (Crassula ovata) looks pretty healthy, judging by the bright green tips on the branches. Gardening is both art and science, with some luck and skill thrown in for good measure.

They tend to drop leaves and sulk if blasted with artificial heat right off the bat. Maybe it's a combination of factors, i.e. a scratch from the rose allows sap from the dandelion you pulled without thinking to get under your skin ...

It has bloomed, but there are no roots, I put a miracle grow stick in it and it looks like it is dying. 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...

Mine are in my garden outdoors in a shady protected area. Your little squash should grow and mature. There are banana seeds available for sale at various sites, but you should find out what the particular seed you are purchasing requires when you purchase...

That is a common problem when transplanting them. For more advice, here is awritten by critterologist that will help you learn to pervent the condition.answers: You're right; daffodils should perform just as well for you as they did for the previous owner.

We hope you find these questions (and answers, penned by our admins and writers) helpful as you grow your gardening knowledge! So much of plant health depends on individual situations, and individual gardeners' methods (and madnesses: some love to water,...

There are several free access forums where your specific questions will be answered quickly and accurately. Here's a link toentry, from which you can click on the pictures link and see pods, flowers and more.A bit farther down that page, you'll find comments...

It is estimated that landfills are made up of nearly thirty percent yard waste and discarded food. Many products and containers are on the market that makes this process easier and faster and there are a number that do the job well.

This base can be a specialized living wreath ring that resembles the skeleton of a Bundt cake pan, a double wire ring or a rearranged coat hanger. These stems will sprout roots and allow the plants toanchor themselves into the base.

The fleshy root can be eaten like potatoes and the older stems are peeled to provide a material similar to straw used to plait hats. The house was built during the 19th century and is furnished with items from back then, kept in pretty good shape considering...

Also, be sure to allow your plants to sit outside overnight in the place where they will be planted so they can get used to that garden bed's particularThe day of the wedding arrived.

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Perhaps it is lacking personality. Anchor the garden with a variety of small trees and shrubs.Perhaps the garden consists of nothing more than a narrow strip along the front or side of the home.

Keep reading to learn more about raised garden beds made from concrete blocks.Using cinder blocks for garden beds is especially nice because you can so easily pick your height. Cinder blocks haven't been mass produced with fly ash in the U.S. for 50 years,...

According to Swan Island, avoiding high nitrogen compost and highnitrogen water soluble types will help avoid weak stems, small blooms, or no blooms, and tubers that rot or shrivel in storage.answers: I think probably the windowsill light is inadequate...

They will flower next year, more than you can imagine.adds: adinamiti is right, in fact, many sources advise you to pinchany blooms from your plants the first year to promote a healthy root system.