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However I can clarify the instructions for your impatiens seeds, which have two main parts. Covering the seeds with 1/8-1/4" of soil keeps the light out and lets the germination process continue as it should.

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 healthiest and largest plants will be found in the optimum ‘middle conditions' of climate and PH.answers: By...

Epsom salts are magnesium sulfate, which has the magnesium that may be lacking and the sulfur lowers the pH. If there is an iron problem, iron sulfate can be added. Lengthen your fall growing season by adding frost protection.

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Gardening is both art and science, with some luck and skill thrown in for good measure. Several studies indicate drought brings on early fall color, but I'm not able to determine if experts suggest excess moisture does as well.

Carrie's suggestion of a trial bed is a good one and selecting your plants when they are in bloom is also foolproof if you are lucky to stumble across something in your travels.answers: Many California native plants become especially abundant after fires,...

I have some scarlet milkweed that I'm going to try and over-winter in the ground, so we're in the same boat. Occasionally we come across a question that we find particularly interesting or intriguing.

If you'll clean the hip material off of your seeds, you should be fine. Do not let the containers dry out and when the little shoots start to appear, gradually move them to a sunny area.

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Some experts recommend adding some coating or sticking agents to the sprays to keep them adhering to the leaves longer, so the flies will die off if they come right back. Simply spraying a plant down with you favorite bug juice will not work, usually,...

Other questions may be moved to one of our other forums so your fellow members can help you.Thanks to Joan for the Lilac image and palmbob for the palm image. Are grow lights the same thing as any other lights?

An unpollinated squash will grow to about the size you indicate and then simply dry up and drop off. If you like to personally hunt your enemy, a flashlight and salt shaker are your best weapons.

Your soil should feel slightly damp, never soggy. Causes are crowded seedlings, cool conditions and improper watering techniques.When this happens, your best bet is to simply start over, as the plants will always appear sickly.

So much of plant health depends on individual situations, and individual gardeners' methods (and madnesses: some love to water, others neglect for weeks.) Not knowing whether you are looking for a potted plant for indoors, or a garden plant, I'll give...

It can't take up water until it grows new roots, and meanwhile extra humidity around it will keep it from wilting. Remove at least a couple rows of leaves (fewer leaves on a cutting means less water loss or wilting while new roots are forming), and try...

So what is an instant garden? I chose to place annuals, like, per square foot, focusing on pink, blue and purple colors. Many gardeners believe this rest period is important to allow the soil micro-organisms to get settled and all the ingredients in the...

A flower garden overflows with opportunities for the creative spirit to come alive. 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...

While starting a flower bed requires some planning and forethought beforehand, it's not as difficult as one might think to build a flower bed from scratch. There are several ways to accomplish this – dig it out, apply herbicide or smother it with cardboard...

Does the exterior of your home seem boring and uninviting? For instance, a garden that is dominated by nothing but lawn can look bleak, empty, and uninteresting. Pull them away from the house and add graceful curves to soften the edges.

Cinder blocks haven't been mass produced with fly ash in the U.S. for 50 years, though. This way you can fill the holes with soil and expand your growing space.To make the bed even stronger, push a length of rebar down through the holes on each corner.

When they start to show some growth, pinch each of the growing tips to encourage branching. I've never tried it personally. They recommend a high percentage of potassium and phosphorus fertilizer, such as a 5-10-10, 10-20-20, or 0-20-20.

Once I found a dead vole outside the exit hole(where the water came out) after doing that, but on other occassions they might just die inside the tunnels...or not! But I can tell you that my plants don't die, meaning the voles don't eat the roots or bulbs,...

Without photos of the problem, or more information, it's hard to imagine what would cause their sudden decline.answers: Plant the ones that seem healthy. In my country the fruits are picked up after the first frost, which doesn't damage them; moreover,...

If they are in bloom, 30's won't faze them but teens might cause some damage. You may have some blooms frozen, but the plant will survive. Whether you use traditional or organic fertilizer, these numbers will be somewhere on the package, so if you've...

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You can plant your peony in May if you wish. They usually advice you to use the bottle lid to measure how much fertilizer you can add in a specific amount of water. Since you are planning on using these plants as part of a shade garden, chances are, they'll...

My advice is to get them out of the garden now and keep them in a garage, then transplant them in spring. 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.