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We’ve been gone… gardening!Hi gardening readers, I know it has been a while! the garden has taken on a new life this year and we have added a full blown herb farm to the mix. We’ve been so busy gardening we haven’t had time for posting. But I got an email from the folks at …
We talked about Forcing Bulbs Inside. But, much less is said about forcing flowering shrubs to bloom . This is easy to do and can be done right in the middle of a raging blizzard! This fact is simply amazing given how easy it is to do. We are about to let you in to …
Forcing Bulbs Forcing bulbs is one of the more enjoyable indoor gardening projects. In simple summary, you are convincing a spring bulb that it has slept through the winter months and encouraging it to awaken into full spring bloom, even though the snow is piling up outside your window. Your reward is a colorful bloom …
I read somewhere that people get so dogmatic about the way they grow their potatoes because basically you can’t screw it up. Plant potatoes, water potatoes, harvest potatoes. I have grown potatoes many times in up to four tires high. I have had great success. I have had lousy years. The one real common denominator …
“The Three Sisters all work together. Critters will find it harder to invade your garden by inter-planting your corn, beans and squash. The corn stalk serves as a pole for the beans, the beans help to add the nitrogen to the soil that the corn needs, while the squash provides a ground cover of shade …
Air layering is a useful method of producing roots on the stem of indoor landscape plants that have become “leggy” through the loss of their lower foliage. This method, believed to have been developed centuries ago by the Chinese, has been used successfully as a mean of propagating some of the more difficult-to-root plants. Because …
If it is a bit early to begin growing seeds indoors for transplants for the spring garden where you are, you don’t have to wait! Even if you don’t have a greenhouse, you make a windowsill winter garden salad. You can eat it within weeks! Grow your own Micro-Greens! Use a window box liner with …
For those of you getting ready to get a start on tomatoes, there is a great website, Growing Tomato Secrets you may want to check out. He just put up a new video entitled,
Gardening enthusiasts in the more interesting temperate climates and any place where there are four seasons are faced with great benefits as well as challenges. But why use a greenhouse? Because of the four seasons, gardeners are blessed with huge plant varieties for planting in at least one or two of the seasons. In the …
Propagating plants is a great way to make many plants from one, however many gardeners have not been very successful with rooting new plants from cuttings. Well there is a better way. Air layering is easy, and the success rate is much higher. Perhaps you have a great plant you want to share with friends. …