Put a beautiful container near your front door and plant wonderfully scented flowers to greet your guests... or perhaps a nice cherry tomato plant from which they can steal on their way to ring your doorbell. Put a waist high herb garden right outside your kitchen door and add an area ...
That got me thinking about a tree oddity I saw earlier this year when I was visiting my daughter in Walla Walla. Near her office at Whitman College stands a mature box elder (Acer negundo), whose lower crown has large swaths of pale yellow leaves (Figure 1). From a distance, one ...
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Next, place your container on a solid surface. Use a power drill or a hammer and a nail to create quarter-inch holes every 3 to 5 inches along the side near the bottom of the bucket/container. DO NOT drill holes in the bottom of the bucket or container for drainage. ...
Twenty-six swarms escaped and began working their way North. California got a surprise dose of the Africanized bees in 1985 before Texas or any other location in the US due to a shipment of oilfield equipment holding an undetected colony of Africanized bees to my old stomping grounds near Ba...
If you live near the mountains water may contain higher levels of salt or carbonates which can cause issues. Excessive salt is damaging to plants and causes burned leaf edges, stunted growth, and fewer blooms. Choose the Right Fertilizers Plants in containers grow quickly and deplete the availabl...
Mayapples continue to expand near the creek. Remembering this deepens my appreciation of all I see and hear and smell, like the fragrances of flowers and rich earth after warming rains. I am reminded to not take any of this for granted, to savor both the sudden beauty of just-emerged blo...
The next step is to cut LOTS of 1 1/2″ circles out of pink tissue paper. Plan on at least 6 circles for each branch. You can buy a paper punch at craft stores to make these circles quickly, or go old school and just cut them out free form, they don’t need to be perfect. ...
Accessibility is the first factor to consider, as winter veggies will do you no good if you can’t reach them. Many people like to site their structures near the house or a path that is well-used even in winter. Root crops buried under deep mulch can be placed anywhere, but plants gro...
Press the “Use My Location” button. Allow the tool to use GPS to determine your location, then the map will show your planting zone. Use your mouse or touchscreen to drag and zoom the map and find your location, then click or tap the map. ...