I encourage you to read herto understand phosphorous. :( Good luck! They sound lovely.answers: Good question, (meaning I wasn't sure and was curious myself.) I knew who WOULD know something--darius, a DG writer, who's written articles on all of the major...
A big part of what attracts people to Dave's Garden has always been our forums, where gardeners ask and answer questions for one another. Potting mix is expensive and if you need to supplement with bagged material, you can actually buy garden soil or...
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Soil temperatures are warmer than in the spring, and the plant will have several months to settle in before the heat of summer begins. Even though you indicate an uneventful summer, the events earlier in the season set the stage for an unusual cycle.
Now perennial shrubs are taking over. This past winter I saw many seedlings coming up in an area that had not burned since circa 1994. Or maybe find a friend who likes blue but not purple.
Answers: The term ‘winter protection' means to give your plant just a little help to survive a harsh winter. It could mean putting a tomato cage over it and wrapping in burlap. I have some scarlet milkweed that I'm going to try and over-winter in the...
Fresh rose seed needs to stay moist to be viable. To cover that all, one inch deep, would take 20 cubic feet of material, or about ten average mulch bags full. Gardening is both art and science, with some luck and skill thrown in for good measure.
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. With your jade plant, it sounds like you want to drastically change its shape.
Moisten the mix and leave it outside during the winter so it can go through several freeze/thaw cycles. Other questions may be moved to one of our other forums so your fellow members can help you.
If your question is chosen for this feature, you can be sure you've helped others with the same question."I got a cutting off the neighbors tree and put it in water so it would grow roots, it has been in water since about the middle of July.
Scrolling up to "Search articles" I find the one I remember, by Jill M. Mine are in my garden outdoors in a shady protected area. They like shady areas and cyclamen is a favorite treat.
Don't feel bad, even experienced gardeners will fall victim at times. Preventing damp-off starts with giving your seedlings plenty of room, and soil that is slightly damp. Causes are crowded seedlings, cool conditions and improper watering techniques.When...
Occasionally we come across a question that we find particularly interesting or intriguing. That is why herbs tend to do better in these areas. Buddleja blooms on new wood so you're not harming next year's blossoms when you prune like this.
Here's the cool part -- new roots will sprout out from the neck once it's buried!When a plant goes a long time without being repotted, that bare neck can get long and snake-like, just as with your AV.
I chose to place annuals, like, per square foot, focusing on pink, blue and purple colors. Luckily, I was able to design a plan for an “instant garden” that everyone at the reception raved about.
Michelangelo only had so much ceiling to paint in the Sistine Chapel, after all.There are two ways to go about actually getting the flowers for your garden, and they don't have to exclude one another.
Dig down about four or five inches around the bed's perimeter. This is important, as it allows you to play around with ideas, like the size and. Then carefully lift out or peel back the sod.
Does the exterior of your home seem boring and uninviting? Curved garden shapes also look more natural and are much more pleasing to the eye than sharp edges and straight lines.If possible, extend the living space of your home by enlarging or addingareas,...
But if you want something cheap and attractive that's not going to go anywhere, you can't do better than cinder blocks. This will make the bed much sturdier and less likely to fall.freestar.queue.push(function() { googletag.display("div-gpt-ad-300x250-ATF-1");...
Try shading the pot or insulating it somehow. 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...
They should have a half day of sun and be watered and fed like any conventional garden plant. And you need to get rid of that. The report is that crowded plants bloom better.answers: You did well and your strawberries' roots will be there next year.
(answers: If fall has come to your part of TX, then my best guess is that your hibiscus plants aren't dying, but rather going dormant for the winter. I've grown White Christmas many years and there is also some variation in leaf color throughout the season...
Green peas are the cool weather pea. Regardless, your bulbs will be fine and will live to bloom next year.answers: Coneflowers are perennial plants that go dormant in the winter. For the most part, vegetable seeds need to either be started inside, or...
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The lower end of the chilling-hours scale is 100 chill-hours. Liquid fertilizer is easy to use, but you need to water your plants first with regular water and after a few hours water with the mixture of water and the proper amount of fertilizer.
It is used on trees and shrubs, restricting their branching in order to fit confined spaces or create walkways.I believe you could do this with citrus or camellias; I found references to the pleaching of both of these.
