What Is A Lingonberry

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. The sand dries out quickly and isn't attractive to the gnats.

It simply won't happen. Gardening is both art and science, with some luck and skill thrown in for good measure. You can replace pots as needed, move them into the house in bad weather, and you can add a decorative layer of mulch across the tops of all...

I would start with little cubicles (note-what do they call those? They mean to keep the seeds covered with seed-starting mix; these seeds (and many many others) need DARK to germinate.

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. Occasionally we come across a question that we find particularly interesting or intriguing.

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. Unpotting and planting almost surely stresses the plant, no matter how careful you are.

Other questions may be moved to one of our other forums so your fellow members can help you. Gardening is both art and science, with some luck and skill thrown in for good measure.

I took the picture just for this question, so the foliage looks like this right now. The trees you mention, are some of the earliest to show color in my area (Kentucky) and are the first to display any deviation from the norm.

Many gardeners seeking blue are snagged by the optimistic naming of their favorite type of plant. Butterflies also visit certain plants and trees to lay eggs. If they are native to the area, you will probably see a lot of bush poppy (Dendromecon rigida)...

We hope you find these questions (and answers, penned by our admins and writers) helpful as you grow your gardening knowledge! With just a few preparations, you can conceivably increase the climate area where a plant is growing as much as a couple of...

Visit a plant nursery near you to choose varieties that would be winter-hardy for your area, like oregano, thyme, sage, and lavender. Depending on the type of rose you've collected seeds from, they might bloom the first year, and they might take as long...

Pot up all the cuttings you prune off - they may reach perfect shape and size before the 'mother plant' does. 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.

Simply spraying a plant down with you favorite bug juice will not work, usually, as the bugs are on the OTHER side of the leaves. Generally, a southern or western exposure is best for indoor winter plants.

It has bloomed, but there are no roots, I put a miracle grow stick in it and it looks like it is dying. Are grow lights the same thing as any other lights? Yesterday I put a little bit of miracle grow liquid in it.

Generally, holes chewed in leaves with no culprit in evidence is a dead give away for slug activity. While It isn't exactly a bush, the vines are much shorter than regular-vined melons.

That worked for me. I had this same problem as a young gardener when I transplanted some daffodils located at an old home place. When they have somewhat or completely died back, you can dig them up.

I buy them in September and plant them in a sunny spot for blooms all winter as long as the weather is not too cold or snowy. Our writers and admins will handpick a few of your questions and answer them in an upcoming Ask-a-Gardener, one of our Saturday...

A 4 inch pot is more than big enough, and you might want to use a 2 inch pot or a 5 oz plastic cup (with a couple of holes poked in the bottom for drainage) for your cutting until it gets good roots, then up-pot it.

I wrote down all the plants I wanted to buy to fill in most of the spaces in my new garden beds. “Oh mom, what am I going to do? After watering all of the plants in and spreading some finely chopped cedaron top of the soil, although you could use gravel...

Shopping for the seeds is one of my favorite things to do in late winter and watching the tiny seeds grow is something no person should miss out on.But if you're short on time (and who isn't?) or you prefer to buy certain flowers from the nursery and...

It starts with eliminating the grass as we did in the dig method. Let's look at how to create a flower bed.So you want to build a flower bed. Add some plants, water thoroughly and mulch generously to keep out weeds.

Pull them away from the house and add graceful curves to soften the edges. Does your garden look tired? Theis one of the best resources for your garden design. However, you can transform it into something more exciting simply by adding curves andthat...

Keep reading to learn more about raised garden beds made from concrete blocks.Using cinder blocks for garden beds is especially nice because you can so easily pick your height. This way you can fill the holes with soil and expand your growing space.To...

Other questions may be moved to one of our other forums so your fellow members can help you I have a Loropetalum that I purchased earlier this year that I've kept in its pot all summer, waiting until it was cool enough for me to prepare the planting area.

Potted plants should be kept in a sunny place and watered like a conventional houseplant. It is reported that plants grown indoors may bloom at any time. Plants can be kept in pots year round, but my experience has been that those planted in the ground...

Unfortunately, Callery pears have been vigorously cross pollinating each other in the landscape, and filling our roadsides and natural areas with invasive seedlings. This is still well within the window of daffodil planting time.

Jill Nicolas wrote several wonderful aticles on winter sowing,answers: Most of us who live in this part of the country are used to seeing these plants make an early appearance. Answers: Winter sowing is a great way to get a jump on your garden, but there...

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