More Moss
Now that moss in the garden is being seen more as an asset than a pest, specialty nurseries are growing and selling trays of common and exotic kinds for instant gardens or as plugs for starting naturally spreading ... [... more]
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Getting Gardens Ready For Winter
With the first blasts of arctic air from Canada comes the cold, hard truth that winter is right around the corner. While gardeners in warmer climes (USDA zones 8 to 10) relish the cool air because it signals fall ... [... more]
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When To Plant Vegetables
If you live in the North were crocus are common, you can time your seed sowing to their their bloom: When you see the flowers, plant the following as seeds outside in your garden: broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, ... [... more]
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Gardening Articles: Care :: Plant Care Techniques
Dennis Linden at USDA-ARS soil lab in St. Paul, Minnesota, has found that earthworms are creatures of habit. Once a worm stumbles onto its food source, it remembers where the food is located and keeps coming back for ... [... more]
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Best Clematis For The North
Nothing is more stunning, in my view, than a trellis loaded with bright, colorful clematis flowers. This popular climbing perennial often has the reputation of being difficult to grow. Success is at least partly due ... [... more]
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A Sprinkler For Any Lawn
Gilmour Manufacturing's Pattern Master sprinklers have either impulse or rotary heads at the center of a stable plastic sled base. An adjustable track that looks, when properly adjusted, something like a little black ... [... more]
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All About Cloches
Cloche (pronounced kl-osh) is the French word for "bell." The original cloches were large bell-shaped jars that 19th-century French market gardeners placed over plants in spring and fall to act as portable miniature ... [... more]
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Aspirin For Your Garden
The vegetables were grown in compost-amended soil with drip irrigation. Beds were sprayed every 3 weeks with aspirin water (1.5 aspirins per 2 gallons of water). It’s thought that the salicylic acid in aspirin ... [... more]
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Award Winning Daylilies
Plants that combine beauty with edibility are in vogue, and a new selection in the mint family fits this bill. Agastache 'Blue Fortune' has anise-scented leaves (hence its common name of anise hyssop) and purplish ... [... more]
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Best Winter Annuals
Variety selection is the key to best color and performance. Based on trials of more than 250 varieties of annuals at the University of Georgia's Trial Gardens in Athens, some top choices for winter color emerged. ... [... more]
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A Roundup Of Unusual Rakes
Super Rake, based on the twin-blade shaving concept, has two closely spaced but differently angled sets of sharp, flexible plastic teeth. It promises to be more efficient than a standard single-head rake. Depending ... [... more]
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Add Beneficial Fungi When Planting
A few things should be kept in mind when using these products. Before sprinkling mycorrhizae around plants, check the soil’s phosphorus levels. High phosphorus in soils inhibits mycorrhizae formation, making the ... [... more]
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