How To Use A Weed Eater

The actual seeds are very small and there are many in each ball. 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.

First is the sow inside until ALL danger of frost has passed part. We hope you find these questions (and answers, penned by our admins and writers) helpful as you grow your gardening knowledge!

Generally, there isn't a connection between the zone and the PH number as you described, but climate and PH will have an effect on the ultimate height and spread. Depending on the size of your sinkholes, you might not need much, and you could check with...

Plant in mid July and you would have just three months of growing season for frost tender vegetables. The Australian Forum is a fun area and many folks from south of the Equator gather there to discuss their unique growing conditions.

Our writers and admins will handpick a few of your questions and answer them in an upcoming Ask-a-Gardener, one of our Saturday morning features. We hope you find these questions (and answers, penned by our admins and writers) helpful as you grow your...

Soil temperatures should be at least 50 or warmer when you plant trees and shrubs (warmer for conifers). Although I'm not familiar with your climate, things like ice storms, late freezes or even early leaf-out affects the timing of my color show.

The color blue is the 'Holy Grail' in some families of plants. Within roughly ten years, things will look pretty much as they did before the fire.owners who have commented in PlantFiles, these have flowers with a light pink tinge.

The house blocks the worst of the wind and holds a bit of heat from the sun. First of all, protect your plants from harsh wind. It could mean putting a tomato cage over it and wrapping in burlap.

You probably just need to be persistent and increase your efforts. Do you save all grass clippings and autumn leaves? Some may need protection during harsh winter storms.The photo on the left shows my own small herb garden (today) set in a bed of stones...

With your jade plant, it sounds like you want to drastically change its shape. Do this very gradually, taking off no more than a quarter or less of each branch at a time.Meanwhile, you should do two other things.

I like to put a plastic bag over my pot to help keep moisture in, but I poke a few holes in it so it can breathe. There are sticky traps you can get at a nursery or argicultural center that you can put in and around susceptible species to pick up on early...

The sewer line is rather new (about 6 years old) and made of plastic and not clay or steel. Thank you."Hello...I plan on planting this palm from a 15 gallon container over our sewer line about 15 feet away from our house.

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. Your little squash should grow and mature.

The experts say to use a combination of controls, including the chemicals, found in broadleaf herbicides like Trimec and Weed-Be-Gone. This seems to be nature's way of ensuring that the land is always full of trees.The small ones can be dug with a garden...

(Bone meal is an old standby amendment for bulb planting as it adds a dose of phosphorous, but it has very little of the other nutrients needed.) Good fertile soil under the bulb is the daffodils best source of energy.

(see itPerennial: Happy Returns daylily-- Daylilies are very dependable. It creates a windbreak and protects the roots at the same time. Our writers and admins will handpick a few of your questions and answer them in an upcoming Ask-a-Gardener, one of...

Although some young trees have larger than normal leaves, not many could have those enormous leaves!Paulownia does not come from a tuber as far as I know, but could sprout from the roots even if the tops are cut off.

Luckily, I was able to design a plan for an “instant garden” that everyone at the reception raved about. 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 a few...

You many want to try a handy tool that I found at the Better Homes and Gardens website called the “Plan-a-Garden” (check it out at bhg.com under “gardens”). Its colors and patterns will never look the same as they did yesterday.

It can also spread by seed if allowed to flower in late summer. Nimblewill spreads by stolons that run along the surface of the soil, whereas many other grasses, like Bermuda, spread via rhizomes.

However, poison ivy's leaf edges are smooth and slightly pointed, not scalloped.and their looks change with the seasons. If you are wondering about poison oak vs., the latter's leaves also hang in groups of three and cause the same stinging itch on contact.

There will normally be several clustered flowers at the top of the plant, which look like a fountain, and also several flowers closer to the bottom. The flowers on ragweed are yellow and long, like streamers.

Buttercup likes nutrient poor,, increase percolation and fertilize for cultural buttercup control.Once you have tried all the steps above to kill buttercup weeds, and only if they are still persistent, it is time to consider chemical warfare.

You can remove sickleweed manually by pulling it up by the roots as long as you are sure to pull out the entire taproot. However, another common name for this plant is arsenic weed, in reference to the weed's toxicity when consumed, so it is best not...

Control for hairy bittercress starts early in the season before flowers turn to seed and get a chance to spread.) is an annual spring or winter pest. These pods split open explosively when ripe and fling seeds out into the environment.The weed prefers...

Since then, the weed had rapidly spread to one million acres of pasture land, sod farms forests, ditches and other natural locales.The extraordinary number of seeds contained in a single plant (40,000-50,000) make this an extremely prolific weed and difficult...

Every rooted node can turn into a new plant if left behind.freestar.queue.push(function() { googletag.display("div-gpt-ad-300x250-ATF-1"); });The first thing to understand when working to get rid of creeping charlie plant is that it, like most lawn weeds,...