8.No entries will be accepted after 5:00 p.m.on Friday,May 12.9.All gardens entered should be ready for judging by June l.Contestants will be given 24-hours'notice of the judges'intention to visit.10.This competition is not open to council employees or their relatives,or employees of ...
All plants propagate themselves one way or another, and many are garden-worthy selections or weeds or garden thugs. There are far too many to list here, advance you familiarity with each of these categories, make systematic observations in your garden, search your local library or bookstore of...
fresh flowers and pots of hyacinths and other bulbs. Often the bulbs are ones I’ve had cooling for many weeks and are ready for forcing. But, I’m also a sucker for those temptations at the grocery store – right about now there are pots and pots of tulips, daffodils, hyacinths and...
Rinse the knee pads under the tap until all the bubbles are gone. Do not machine dry them. Just hang them up to dry. If you are planning to store them for a couple of months, launder them as usual. Once they are completely dry, wrap them inside a plastic bag and store them somewhe...
Clean out any containers you’re finished with for the season and store them away for the winter. Be sure all of your tools are cleaned and stored away. Check to make sure the fall winds have not blown away the mulch you put down last month. Apply more if necessary. If any fall ...
If you’re laundering summer what to store away you might as well do the wintertime ones too, that way be good and fresh once you come to put them on they’ll. Seek out your jackets and coats as well and get them to the dry cleaner, it won’t become long and soon you need them...
These newly mated queens store the sperm from these nuptial flights and will use these stores to selectively fertilize her eggs for the duration of her life. Ants are omnivores, and feed on a variety of organic materials including fungi, nectar, seeds, plants, arthropods and other small ...
Your local garden store can advise you on ways to correct any soil problems you may encounter. They will have mulch, sand, compost and other additives that you may need to work into your garden soil to get it just right. Planting a Garden from Seeds or Small Transplants ...
” Being a little over thirty myself I wanted to disagree with him. Nobody wants to think that he is past the age of making any discovery. The next day I happened to be in the public library and spent several hours looking up the ages of famous people and their discoveries. Ralph ...
No more trips to the grocery store every time you need to pick up some Sage! Now you’ll know How to Grow Sage from Cuttings in Water! Michaela writes:“Buy plants at the end of the season, including indoor pots. Then keep them inside over the winter! The plants will keep growing ...