Summerhill Seeds offers the Easy Wave Petunia in thefour o'clock. Fungus gnats love damp soil and as long as your potting medium remains damp, they'll happily reproduce. It is a drastic measure that will cut down the population considerably.
When I say a few...I mean a couple each season, not a couple dozen! Kudos to you for finding the free amendments! The seed balls are great organic matter and your gardens will benefit from the addition.adds: My first question is, do you garden wearing...
:( 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 and some of the minor plant nutrients.
This is sometimes called "planting on 28 inch centers," ( or whatever the measurement may be.) Planting 28 inches apart will certainly assure ample growing room for those plants. Answers: This is an excellent question! The various zones and PH listings...
I'm not feeling very confident about those choices. You would not want to grow a desert cactus in a pot like that, but many plants, such as bougainvillea and daylilies which are often touted as xeriscape plants to be treated more like conventional plants...
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. Other questions may be moved to one of our other forums so your fellow members can help you.
Color develops when the tree quits producing chlorophyll, so any changes during the season might jump start the process. Soil temperatures should be at least 50 or warmer when you plant trees and shrubs (warmer for conifers).
Enjoy watching caterpillars as they grow and change.Mulch the garden so bees do not visit looking for bare dirt to use in nest building.Add a shallow water dish, or muddy spot in the garden, as a place for butterflies to drink.Keep your flowers away from...
Make sure your bucket has a couple of small holes cut in the sides to keep heat from building up and causing your plant to break dormancy. If your plants can be cut back, as mine can, cut them back to a few inches above the ground and mound mulch over...
Break the hips open and collect the seed. Other questions may be moved to one of our other forums so your fellow members can help you. When the rose hips ripen, they'll usually be red or orange, sometimes yellow.
Other questions may be moved to one of our other forums so your fellow members can help you. You are going to want to do this a little bit at a time. Occasionally we come across a question that we find particularly interesting or intriguing.
So you have to usually spray UP your plant. The first is that they only seem to attack the underside of leaves, so early infestations are very hard to find unless you look for them.
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.
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. Adds: There is a 'bush' version of the popular Sugar Baby watermelon.
Because hollyhocks live more than one year, some erroneously categorize them as perennials.Biennial plants are an intermediary form between annuals and perennials. Hollyhocks, which only bloom for one summer, are sometimes erroneously considered annuals.Perennial...
They produced foliage, but never bloomed. Mix a good fertilizer "bulb food" into the soil, and compost if you have it. 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.
Some of these sheets are 3 or 4 feet across and are perfect for wrapping pots and plants. These sheets just go in the dumpster and they are so handy for a gardener to have.Remember, if you have a gardening question that you would like to suggest for this...
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.
Realistically, you can't create a large instant flower garden plan in two days without doing a little spending at your favorite nursery or home and garden store. Here's how I did it…When creating instant gardens, start by figuring out how much space...
The variety of colors and textures, heights and habits of the flowers in seed catalogs today is absolutely mind-boggling. You can sketch out your home and other structures on site and then draw the layout of your flower garden around them.
Use a hose, spray paint or flour to mark out and shape the bed. Where do you begin? Clear out any debris and loosen the soil, working in organic matter. You can plant a flower bed right away if the grass was dug out or within the next season using the...
Be sure to look around you. Is it empty and unappealing? Pull them away from the house and add graceful curves to soften the edges. Play around with different colors, textures and forms.
But if you want something cheap and attractive that's not going to go anywhere, you can't do better than cinder blocks. Keep reading to learn more about raised garden beds made from concrete blocks.Using cinder blocks for garden beds is especially nice...
Of course, this ended up being more like a three-toned or even four-toned splash of color since smaller flowers of other types shared the same space.magically popped up from out of nowhere, so at one time I had all three colors of yarrow going.
Purslane, scientific name Portulaca oleracea, is an annual, edible succulent plant. It grows low to the ground and tends to spread.Purslane originated in North Africa, the Middle East, and India.
His dahlias were the biggest and most beautiful dahlias I've ever seen. Adds: You can keep potted perennials and shrubs happy in their containers until conditions are right for planting by shading them from the hottest sun and watering them regularly.
I have seen these happily living outdoors in hot summer without any supplemental water here in California for over 8 months. Those grown outdoors will typically bloom in the spring, though I have had rogue plants rebloom in the summer or fall.
