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Cool Weather Annuals for Winter
They also build soil nitrogen as they grow, making them beneficial to the ensuing summer crops.A few of our summer recipe favorites are the products of cool weather gardening. Use "green onion" thinnings as scallions in that spring salad.
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Spinach as a Cool-season, Autumn Crop
Spinach is wonderful raw. In corresponding with Farmerdill, a DG member who is very active on theforum, I learned that in the southern regions, such as his native Georgia, a semi-savoy variety calledfares particularly well.
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Primrose versus pansy; my March madness
But pansies have always been my spring bedding flower of choice. Gardeners in more Northern areas, or Southerners who know how to find their cooler microclimates, can have pansies in bloom for theTheoretically a perennial, sweltering Southern summers...
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Making Sauerkraut
(2) Assemble basic equipment, a cabbage shredder and stoneware crock. Cabbage should be dry before grating for sauerkraut. Photographs 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. He uses a specially manufactured stoneware crock designed to eliminate the production of scum which...
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Brussels Sprouts
However, it wasn?t until the 1500s that it gained popularity throughout Europe, and it was the French settlers that brought this crop to Louisiana in the early 1800?s. Eighty percent of the crop is sold as frozen produce.are the other main global growers...
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Halloween Pumpkins--Beyond the Old-Fashioned Jack-o\'-Lantern, Way Beyond
Almost too sharp, because it's hard to smooth out the cut marks."He uses tools that clay sculptors use, and a utility knife and finger protectors. Nowadays, people carve pumpkins to look like silhouettes of black cats, witch's hats, vampires or haunted...
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Brunnera - Woodlander for Foliage and Flowers
Among the older cultivars are ‘Variegata' (aka ‘Dawson's White') with wide, irregular white margins and ‘Hadspen Cream' with narrower, yellowish-cream margins. ‘Langtrees' is another older cultivar with silver-spotted margins and is the parent...
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Grow Lettuce Without Bolting
'is a Hawaiian variety with a good reputation for withstanding hot weather.These are all lettuces that I grew in my own garden last year in July, in the heat of an Illinois summer.
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Silybum Milk Thistle Info: Tips For Planting Milk Thistle In Gardens
Prized for its medicinal properties, it is also considered highly invasive and is being targeted for eradication in some areas. Keep reading for information about planting milk thistle in gardens, as well as combating milk thistle invasiveness.) contains...
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Put Your Own Seasonal Harvest on Your Thanksgiving Table
On my own table, there will also be anpie, because I have a refrigerator full of apples harvested from my trees.In some warmer parts of the country, people plant fall gardens that are still producing at the end of November, even warm-weather crops like...
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Rocky Mountain Gardening: Seed starting
Before you can even start scratching the cabin fever itch, you must figure out your area's predicted last frost date.A few good resources for ascertaining this elusive date are:Don't forget though, that these are only averages of past recorded data.There...
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Early Emerging Spring Perennials
In very early winter, these shrubs will begin to put out new green growth on circuitous branches, which to many people is the first sign of spring.Bluebeard makes and excellent shrub for any dry or unsuitable garden site.
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Tips For Growing Water Hyacinth Plants
Garden centers sell products that remove the chlorine and chloramine from the water and make it safe for plants. Once established, they require no special care except occasional thinning to keep them from choking out everything else in the pond.
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Is Water Hyacinth Invasive: Learn About Water Hyacinth Control
If you've tried simply pulling this plant out of your pond in the past, without draining or cleaning the pond and equipment thoroughly, you've probably convinced yourself nothing will kill water hyacinth.
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Water Snowflake Care – Learn About Snowflake Water Plants
However, if you choose to grow snowflake water lily in a container, provide a fertilizer made specifically for water plants every month or so during the growing season.Thin snowflake water plants occasionally if they become overcrowded, and remove dead...
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Care Of Water Lilies: Growing Water Lilies And Water Lily Care
If necessary, you can raise the depth by placing the pot on top of rocks.: For those having fish in their water garden, water lilies should NOT be potted in regular potting soil, as this contains a lot of organic material that will eventually rot and...
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Care Of Water Lettuce: Info And Uses For Water Lettuce In Ponds
Today, it is found throughout the tropics and the American Southwest and is quantified as a weed with no wildlife or human food uses for water lettuce recorded. The spongy foliage is light green to gray-green colored and is 1 to 6 inches long.
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Plant Select\'s new book: A resource for all gardeners
With the new (old) trend toward planting natives and wildlife-friendly plants, gardeners can use any resources available on the subject.Some other books that might help you while planting native plants:Armitage's Native Plants for North American GardensBringing...
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Parsnips: Carrot\'s Lesser Known Cousin Takes Center Stage During Autumn and Winter
In agricultural production-parsnip is grown as an annual.So you think you might like to try your hand at growing parsnips?The first thing you will need is time. [6] For a parsnip with some history-try cooking with--one of the earliest cultivars developed...
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Wintering Water Lilies: How To Store Water Lilies Over Winter
The containers people use to store their water lilies over winter varies. It's best to store your water lilies bare rooted in the water and not in growing pots.Replace the water weekly in container and keep the water temperature around 70 F.
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Peas, Please! English, Snow, or Sugar Snap?
I like the humor of an anonymous poet, who wrote:In the garden, peas are a cool-season crop. I have learned to set my bucket or bowl on the ground and dedicate both hands to gently removing the pods from the vine.
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A Garden Like no Other
Theoretically, the potential average hours of sunshine during this period is 680. Summers are cool, with average highs in the mid-50s.Daylight is another important weather factor for gardens this far north.
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Colorado Demonstration Gardens: Monument Valley Gardens
The Horticultural Art Society of Colorado Springs maintains a sumptuous demonstration garden for the public to enjoy and evaluate plants. With erratic weather patterns coming over the Front Range, one cannot predict much more than the skies being unpredictable.
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Plant Select: A Resource for all Gardeners
It will flourish with neglect or care, which makes it an exceptional choice for many spots in the garden.'Pike's Peak Purple' Penstemon is a durable hybrid selected from crosses made by Bruce Meyers between Mexican and American wild penstemons.
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A Different Kind of Evergreen
A native to eastern Canada and northeastern United States, Veronicas are hardy to Zone 3 and are very easy to grow plantsBlue Fescue is a clump-forming ornamental grass that holds its powder-blue foliage color throughout summer.
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Garden Myths Busted: Artiifical Light, Milk Spray, The Bottom of the Pot
However remember that this research was done in reputable university labs under controlled conditions. Dr. Linda Chalker-Scott from Washington State University and Dr. Jeff Gilliam from the University of Minnesota tested these myths under controlled conditions...
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Using Herbs and Fresh Fruit to Make Flavored Water
Fancy spas and hotels offer exotic flavored waters at a hefty price, but with just a few items from your garden, you can sip the same thing as the rich and famous.Start with fresh fruit and herbs.
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