What Makes Red Wine Red

Read on for a few suggestions.– Red hot pokers, especially yellow varieties, look great alongside orange dahlias.– If you like hot color schemes, imagine red hot poker paired with bright pink cosmos.freestar.queue.push(function() { googletag.display("div-gpt-ad-300x250-ATF-1");...

They can also be seed grown. Gardeners should be diligent with watering during hot and dry spells.Provide a 2- to 3-inch layer of mulch to help with water retention and for protection during cold winters.Cut foliage off at the base of the plant in late...

What do red hot poker seeds look like? Before sowing, give them afor 4 weeks. If you get them in the ground early enough, you should expect a bloom the first year.Remove spent flower spikes as they occur and cut the foliage back in late winter to early...

Most cultivars start flowering by late June and some re-bloom until frost.Do you cut back red hot poker plants when the flowers fade? The plant rests for several months to begin growing again in spring.While it is possible to cut back foliage at this...

Plant the vine where it has an arbor, pergola, tree or something sturdy to climb. Warmth is critical and red jade vine plants are likely to turn yellow and drop leaves if temperatures drop below 55 F.

It is commonly used on golf courses, recreation fields and for home lawns.Red fescue is not a good source of forage for livestock. However, once it is established, it has a very deep root system and is very resistant to wear and drought.

Flickers nesting in northern regions raise only one brood per season, but southern flickers may raise two. Its call is a rapid, piercing “kekekekekekeke”, that can last as long as 10 seconds.

We hope this spotlight on some of our members' favorites is a nice change of pace for your Saturday morning. You can find scissors, needle nose pliers, twine or thread large needles and a few clips in any household.

The Toter Composter is a new tool on the market that gives us a different twist on an old process. Compost is 'Black Gold' to gardeners and we are always on the hunt for easier and faster ways to break down our kitchen scraps and outdoor trimmings.

Today, the basket makers are considered artisans and their containers are highly sought after collectables.The authors have mixed stories of basket making families with vintage black and white photos and detailed drawings of various weaves, handles, wrappings...

There are various ways to create a living wreath, but using succulent plants likeand Prometheum, which is a form of Crassula, makes a nice living wreath arrangement. Also, you don't need to buy plants, but can take cutting from the garden or potted plants.

Thehas graciously sent me their new self-contained composter to review and this is the second article in the three article series.If you've missed the first installment, you can read it hereDepending on what you have to compost, the make-up of your finished...

It improves the texture of clay or sandy soil and helps with water retention, as well as encouraging beneficial bacteria. Yep, I'm growing my own tea! Each planter got a nice layer of the new compost to act as mulch and release nutrients into the soil.I...

The four-lined plant bug (Poecilocapsus lineatus) is especially fond of members of the mint family, and shows up most heavily on my lemon balm and spearmint plants. The other two photos are my own.

Provided that the green tomatoes have reached the mature green stage, the paper bag will trap the ethylene and will help to ripen the tomatoes.There aren't too many things a gardener can do to hurry the ripening process up on tomatoes that are still on...

Looking forward to those cold-season blooms, which are supposed to appear on indoor plants between December and March, I started some seeds of Veltheimia bracteata back in the spring of 2012.That was, of course, before I read the fine print and discovered...

As an alternative, try dried pears or dried figs instead. Add spices, and cook until liquid reduces by about one-quarter. Sophisticated, seasonal and simple: I love this combination of fruit, chocolate and wine.

Do this in spring and again in fall, watering it in well. Sprinkle 1 cup of lime around the dripline of each shrub. But in alkaline soil, the round inflorescences turn a deep crimson red.If you need to nudge your soil farther along the line toward alkaline...

It is actually the plant's leaves that provide its color through a process called photoperiodism. (16-21 C.) with total darkness at night with cooler temperatures of around 60 F. Once flower bracts have developed definite color, you can reduce the amount...

A small break in that routine can prevent the bracts from changing color.Poinsettia is sensitive to cold temperatures and requires steady warmth to encourage its color change. Poinsettia is naturally lanky and needs regular pruning through spring and...

Where to plant: Can be planted close together: between eight to 10 onions per foot. Soil requirements: Well-drained soil; pH between 6.2 and 6.8. When to plant: Just before the last frost and after the soil has dried.

Let stand 4 days and 4 nights. The leaves are high in Vitamin C, Vitamin A and iron and contain more iron and calcium than spinach. It became a game, pouncing on the biggest patch, being the first to spot the overgrown, un-mowed lawn 4 houses down, until...

Gardeners sometimes make the mistake of planting the small, floppy shoots too deeply so that they stand straight up. While a student at the University of California at Davis he worked at local tomato and sugar beet farms and continued in the agricultural...

One year I lost all the seed we had collected, and another year I made the mistake of sealing the seeds in a jar that also had a few other wildflower seeds that weren't completely dry, and the result was a mouldy mess.

Egg Size: Large (standard size) Weight: 7 to 8 pounds Urban Uses: Rhode Island Reds are excellent layers, producing five eggs per week. A classic American breed, the Rhode Island Red was first developed in Massachusetts and Rhode Island in the 1840s and...

Apavia Red Goes Home Having to give up Red was a difficult decision, but he's on his way to a good home. After all, they have no control over their own destinies. Milagro is very attached to Red, and becomes distraught if Red leaves the property for even...

The most identifying feature is the wattle that hangs from the lower jaw at the neckline. History: The Red Wattle is believed to have originated in New Caledonia, a French Island near Australia and cam to America via New Orleans with French immigrants.