Jen D. in Bridgeville, PA runs the Meetup group Southwest PA Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants Group. Colin has a survival blog BasicGear with 62 Edible Wild Plants That You Didn't Know You Can Eat. The Western Pennsylvania Mushroom Club is the largest mushroom club in the Five State ...
We as the goat owners are an influencing factor in the equation. Deprive and starve your goat from getting a balanced diet and you are forcing that goat to eat whatever it can just for the sake of not going hungry. Please think about this when you are determining your goat's food ...
athe University of Colorado Hospitals, the Sydney Kimmel Cancer Research Center as senior vice president, the Shakut Khanum Cancer Hospital and Research Center in Pakistan as president, the United Family Hospitals and Clinics in China as president and chief executive officer and the New Century Inte...
It turns out that vampires and mosquitoes have more than their love of sucking blood in common. It’s not quite as effective as some of the other plants on this list, but mosquitoes, aphids and ants don’t like the odor coming from garlic. If you’re in a pinch, you can rub garlic...
Note:Even “resistant” varieties can be vulnerable in thefirst few weeksafter planting when their leaf tissue is especially nitrogen-rich. If you have major deer problems, we recommend spraying new plants with a deer repellent for 3 to 4 weeks after planting to prevent them from being nibble...
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You can cut these plants back like peppers if your season is long enough for a second crop. Photo by Barcin/Getty Images How to Store Eggplant Eggplants can be stored for up to 2 weeks in humid conditions no lower than 50°F (10°C). ...
These weeds—you know them as bindweed, dandelions, thistle, quackgrass, cheatgrass, sorrel and others—are good at overcoming the barrier weed fabric presents to them. They can germinate in the duff layer on top of the fabric and grow in soils that are extremely shallow (such as cheatgras...
At the same time, green beans repel Colorado potato beetles, so these plants truly both benefit each other, offering a symbiotic relationship. 7. Rosemary Another herb that you might want to grow alongside green bean plants is rosemary. Grow these plants as a border near your bean plants ...
I felt like the mote of dust that you can barely see during that first visit. I think I felt a bit crushed by the overwhelming importance of the place in my world of plants, but I also was a broken woman at that exact moment in my life. I felt desperately behind others my age, ...