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Many mountain grocery stores accepted baskets as barter for food and without this practice; many Appalachian families would have gone hungry. While the roots of the designs can be traced to Scots-Irish or Germanic origins, materials are uniquely North...

Remember that some of the succulents are fragile and the stems may break. There are various ways to create a living wreath, but using succulent plants likeand Prometheum, which is a form of Crassula, makes a nice living wreath arrangement.

Starting from square-one with a new compost project takes a bit to get rolling. She'll pull a traditional compost pile apart for a shred of lettuce and the Toter keeps it out of her reach.All things considered, I'm quite pleased with the way the composter...

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Your future gopher problelm is a different story, and you will probably need to do this every few months for a while. If your question is chosen for this feature, you can be sure you've helped others with the same question.Although I live far from Texas,...

Ourdirectory is searchable by specialty and I've pulled up some of ourof Annual flower seeds and listed a few of their offerings in the coral, salmon and apricot shades. Clivia should have a cool rest period in winter and during this time the roots should...

I do make drainage holes in the container bottoms and line them with landscape cloth so the the soil stays put.This method should allow you to design whatever looks best on your table and change the mulch every growing season if you like.

However I can clarify the instructions for your impatiens seeds, which have two main parts. Sunlight, lamp light, flashlight, any kind of light will impede or even stop germination altogether.

You'll end up with a little less than 28 inches of bare ground in between them. Depending on the size of your sinkholes, you might not need much, and you could check with some farms or stables to get some of their manure to help fill in.

To get rid of the chlorine, all you need is some time. You may also be interested in our articles, which are open to all members, too, and represent a wealth of gardening knowledge.adds: We have helpful members and quite a few experts in these forums.

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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 is it in?

If they are native to the area, you will probably see a lot of bush poppy (Dendromecon rigida) and bush mallow (Malacothamnus fasciculatus). The pictures they've posted show, to my eye, white flowers with only the faintest pink tinge, though the closed...

When the worst of the winter is over, remove the bucket and pull the mulch back so your plants can wake up. Occasionally we come across a question that we find particularly interesting or intriguing.

There will be as few as one, or maybe a half dozen. Rose seeds do not like heat for germination, so think of them as green peas that are planted in early spring. If you'll clean the hip material off of your seeds, you should be fine.

We hope you find these questions (and answers, penned by our admins and writers) helpful as you grow your gardening knowledge! Make sure you are treating your jade properly - lots of light, not too much water, as one reader commented "give it conditions...

Then, if I really want to be rid of the things for a while I spray the entire plant, from below mostly, with soap, poison and at least something with a insect growth regulator, trying to be careful not to spray these on the flowers (to protect bee exposure).

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Sorry, unkapete, it sounds like they're not annuals, but read theadds: Depending on the species of banana, some seeds can be quite difficult to successfully germinate. A few grains of salt sprinkled on a slug will kill them quickly.

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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...

Theforum blends newbie questions with experienced gardeners and no question is considered trivial. Remove at least a couple rows of leaves (fewer leaves on a cutting means less water loss or wilting while new roots are forming), and try to make the plant...

It was very enjoyable seeing it all come together so nicely and so quickly! An old garden bench right in between two flower beds made it seem cozy and complete. “Oh mom, what am I going to do?

One cold spring morning you may decide you want to start the painting all over again. There is no right or wrong here. If you have four feet of flower bed space against the garden shed, you probably only have room for four clumps of giant pinkthere.

Take a stroll around your property and choose a suitable location. Add about six inches of compost or rich soil on top with another layer of organic mulch (like straw) on top of this.

Put your garden shape ideas on paper first and then use containers to find and position your desired effect before placing anything in the ground.Remember, a boring garden is not the effect you want to achieve, so choose something pleasing and full of...

Using a sledgehammer, pound the rebar down into the ground until the top is level with the top of the cinderblocks. But if you want something cheap and attractive that's not going to go anywhere, you can't do better than cinder blocks.