If you want to try growing horseradish, spring is the season... Then you will have a bountiful harvest in the fall.This hardy perennial is unique yet easy to grow. Here's how to plant, grow, and harvest horseradish in your garden.
Plant agapanthus 12 to 18 inches apart. Dig a shallow trench that’s roughly two inches deep and set rhizomes in the soil with their eyes or green shoots directed upward. Cover loosely with soil so that the top quarter of the rhizomes are slightly exposed. ...
Some people also plant a new garden bed in their front yard, full of different plants and pollinator-friendly plants. Who says grass lawns have to be around every house? Do Butterflies need Milkweed? Milkweed is a primary source of not only habitat for monarch butterflies, but monarch caterp...
You probably know this plant by its common name, which is milkweed. However, there aremore than 70 species of milkweed native to North America. Each has different characteristics and comes from different regions. So, to group them all together would be to ignore the uniqueness of each specie...
She then proceeds to lay her egg on a leaf—and only on the leaf of a milkweed plant. This is because monarch caterpillars depend on the plant for food, eating every leaf in their path until they complete their metamorphosis (a cycle that takes about four weeks). Unlike adult monarchs ...
For ideas to get started, see our plant guides on strawberries, lettuces, parsley, and chives. For inspiration to overhaul a garden, see Rehab Diary: A Year in the Life of a Garden. And if you’re wondering what to do with your bounty, browse through our hundreds of Garden-to-Table ...
In this method you plant seeds in pots of soil and then expose them to cold, usually in the refrigerator or in a cold garage. After the cold treatment, the pots are put under lights or on a sunny window to see if they germinate. If not, the cold treatment is repeated. Make sure yo...
A.A weed is simply an unwanted plant. I know it’s pretty subjective, because what’s one person’s weed is another person’s wildflower. I know a lot of people like to grow Queen Anne’s lace, or wild carrot [Daucus carota], because it’s pretty, it’s beautiful. But it’s qui...
For example, and probably the most commonly known, a female monarch butterfly will look for milkweed plants. Each butterfly species sticks to their host plant or plants, though some have adapted because of plant scarcity. While it may not be something you want to plant where people might ...
Space plants to their mature width, with the goal of having plants completely cover the soil, which will suppress weeds and reduce long-term maintenance. Plant in drifts of 3 or 5 of the same plant for greater visual impact. Sow seeds of easy to grow annuals such as poppies, cosmos, ...