What Do Arborists Do

The Skinny On Egg Size The only trouble I see with small eggs is in baking, but here's an example of where we've been conditioned to expect our food to be large. Large: 24 oz./dozen; 2 oz.

She said she used her mint for making tea, but didn't know quite what else to do with it. Carton of Greek-style yogurt, and add a peeled, seeded, diced cucumber.Mince a handful of mint leaves together with a couple of cloves of garlic, add that to the...

Well, okay, go ahead—my compost bin is made from a swimming pool wall.One need not buy anything at a gardening center for composting vegetable scraps. Spending $19.99 on garden supplies per year is not doing too badly.

Replant for new coneflowers, allowing room for the new plants to spread.Sometimes coneflowers spread too easily. Add shorter flowers in front of the coneflowers or plant coneflowers among evergreens like rosemary and lavender plants.

Although future projects, like open shelves , are still in the works, this area has already lived up to the hype in my mind. With our mudroom/laundry room, I now get to see my dream realized.

This spring, Kelly will bring the curious together for two-hour workshops with a beekeeper, an expert knitter, a specialist in natural pest control, an herbalist and a pickle-maker.

The upright kind gets leggy and looks scraggly if you don't trim it back occasionally. Give it a sunny spot, and your prostrate rosemary will creep out of its bed and half way across your yard if you let it.

The lanyard is your other life insurance as you will switch to it when you want to untie your climbing rope in order to set it higher, you also use it as a second attachment point for working in the best position.

The bootlace fungus uses its rhizomorphs to travel through soil and reach new trees to infect. They are major components of healthy garden ecosystems, where they break down organic matter, help build soil, and form partnerships with plant roots.Most parts...

Fortunately, the ice did not damage the tree which was over 80 years old and quite sturdy. Site selection is paramount. Never use hot water.Remove broken branches as soon as possible to prevent further breakage or tearing of the bark.

Instead, the seed germinates inside of its casing and then breaks free of it as the plant grows.A samara is a dry indehiscent fruit with a casing or wall that extends to one side in a wing-like shape – in some plants the wing extends to both sides of...

For example, gardeners living in southern regions such as Mobile, Alabama, can expect their last frost date to fall around February 28th, while gardeners in northern cities, like Chicago, will have a last frost date around April 20th, according to the...

Create a multi-variety lime tree--one with all the fruit needed for cocktails--by budding branches of different limes onto a lemon, orange or grapefruit tree. Collect budwood from a lime tree's second-to-last growth flush.The grafting adaptability of...

Lots of room is needed. Staking is required and cultivars can reach heights of 2 to 9 feet. Blossoms are 2 to 5 inches across. Arriving in America in 1630, double blooming types were found in 1677, and were followed by striped varieties in 1823.

) You've given them a full belly, vital energy and nutrients they need to survive, and a brief moment of peace of mind, free of their constant food-related worries. ( Here are five vital ways that farmers can help end hunger.

Bees typically pollinate flowers during the day. This small tree grows in South Africa and Swaziland.Gardenias commonly grown by American gardeners include the lemon, native, and scented gardenia.

It is only meant to help you and make you feel more productive and successful. Use your well thought out to-do list like a tool as important as your spade this year. This will help you stay on track for your goals later in the summer.Obviously, certain...

Both saws and pruning shears are available in extended versions, for hard-to-reach areas. Like most flowering shrubs, Plumbago grows most vigorously and blooms most profusely with regular pruning.Plumbago shrubs produce clusters of five-petaled blooms.Prune...

All true bulb plants fit into this category. Daffodils and tulips, for example, grow in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 4 through 8 and 3 through 8, respectively.Most true bulbs contain five parts: the basal plate that grows the roots,...

Right now, we've got one wall left to tile, a whole bunch of grouting to do, and then the sealing. Not perfect, that's for certain, but still beautiful—it reminds me of the sun-warmed stone walls we saw in the Tuscan countryside last summer.

After the mother plant produces fruit, it dies and is replaced by the largest sucker. In fact, most banana plants produce a lot of suckers, or baby banana plants. Banana plants will grow in full sun or part shade and get quite large -- up to 30 feet tall.Some...

This created two tight figure eights. Using two pliers, I put two more twists in the center of each loop. (It's better than what I had in the past, but it definitely needs work. I have yet to make time to finish my overhead storage and in-wall shelving...

You can also make a white or pink rose into a purple rose with artificial dyes.Purple roses are specially bred, but they do exist.Some varieties of "hybrid tea" roses can be grown with light-purple hues.

Houseplants can be fertilized year-round. It replenishes or adds nutrients and minerals to the soil and encourages vegetative growth or increased blooming and fruiting. Because of the spikes' design, they release nutrients laterally, which means the nutrients...

From the mycelium a stalk or stem will grow, and atop the stem will grow the fruiting cap. They must be skilled in the identification process, because some mushrooms are deadly. When the asci breaks open, the spores are released.

Some fungi have the ability to break down trees into rich soil but will also destroy the wood in your home. Once the spores disperse they will germinate and form a new mycelium. In many fungi, the hyphae play an important role in reproduction.

Pansies are particularly vulnerable in spring, when tender new buds begin to form on the plants. Easy-to-grow pansies (Viola x wittrockiana) produce brightly colored flowers, but the blooms attract the attention of deer, which like eating these protein-rich...