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A fertilizer with this ratio (3-1-2) of the major nutrients (N-P-K) and some micronutrients should serve very well. 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.

Sweet potatoes from the grocery store make a great houseplant too. 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.

Epsom salts are magnesium sulfate, which has the magnesium that may be lacking and the sulfur lowers the pH. Remember this saying about perennials, "The first year they sleep; the second year they creep; the third year they leap."answers:Here are a few...

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We hope you find these questions (and answers, penned by our admins and writers) helpful as you grow your gardening knowledge! However, you are from Halifax, Nova Scotia, and the average first frost for your area is October 20, which makes October planting...

For instance, we were planning some indoor painting projects, and one was to choose a more neutral color for our ORANGE bedroom. Butterflies also visit certain plants and trees to lay eggs.

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. A few inches of mulch and maybe a large bucket covering that would insulate the roots enough to survive the winter.

Could you start a compost bin? Gardening is both art and science, with some luck and skill thrown in for good measure. Rose seeds do not need to dry out, so keep that in mind. Now that we are at the end of the main growing season, you might take any organics...

Gardening is both art and science, with some luck and skill thrown in for good measure. I'd say your jade plant (Crassula ovata) looks pretty healthy, judging by the bright green tips on the branches.

Light requirements depend on what you want to move indoors. Different immune systems.Good luck. 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.

With out moving it, the plant will never have a chance to grow , and I will never be able to move it. It has bloomed, but there are no roots, I put a miracle grow stick in it and it looks like it is dying.

There is commercial bait that you can use. Take a small paintbrush or a Q-tip and lift pollen from the anthers of a male flower and gently transfer it to the stigma on a female one.

I'd do as Sally suggests and replant, paying close attention to the depth. That is a common problem when transplanting them. (Bone meal is an old standby amendment for bulb planting as it adds a dose of phosphorous, but it has very little of the other...

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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. 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...

After watering all of the plants in and spreading some finely chopped cedaron top of the soil, although you could use gravel or whatever mulch suits your style, it was time to get ready for the wedding.Seeing the joy on my daughter's face when she arrived...

See ya' laterthere. Adding some well rotted animalto the soil is almost always a good idea too, but be sure to do this a week before you plant so as not to shock the plants.Identify what type of soil, sun, and water each plant likes before sentencing...

Let's look at how to create a flower bed.So you want to build a flower bed. Flower beds can also be changed as time goes on or as space permits. Fill the area with cardboard or several layers of newspaper and saturate with water.

Add seating to areas where you want others to view.. Pull them away from the house and add graceful curves to soften the edges. Take note of its contours and its curves. Does your garden look tired?

Go for two or three layers.If you do more than one layer, make sure to place it so that the joints between the blocks in the second layer sit over the middle of the blocks in the first layer, just like in a brick wall.

I've long thought how that really must not work realistically. Be sure to maintain a pinching schedule or they will become tall and straggledy.are all hardy mums that will live in zone 5 conditions and we have participating PlantScout vendors attached...

Once dead, I like to remove them, as these can trap water and allow for rot to take place, and bugs to hide in4). Caffeine, the most widely consumed drug in the worldanswers: Judy, I also have moles and voles in my garden.

I have a 5 years-old 'Morello' in my garden. They will become a thick clump in a few years. Or maybe the garden soil was just so lovely and nice that the critters could not resist rummaging through 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. Jill Nicolas wrote several wonderful aticles on winter sowing,answers: Most of us who live in this part of the country...

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And site the peony in a colder microclimate of your yard, if you can. Summer temperatures are regularly over 90 degrees and sometimes triple digits. I live in Kentucky, and we have some extreme temperature swings.

They also survived to very high temperatures and severe drought last summer, with very little watering.answers: I just did some research on pleaching and found it interesting. And if you are sure you want greenery only in the two feet above the wall,...