epub |eng | 2012-03-05 | Author:Sheri Richerson [Richerson, Sheri Ann]

U.S. hardiness zones. Some Like It Hot, Some Like It Cold Microbial activity occurs when dead material such as leaves, grass clippings, or old plant roots begin to break down ...

epub |eng | 2018-12-21 | Author:diane heilenman

epub |eng | 2020-04-27 | Author:Kris Bordessa [Bordessa, Kris]

CONSIDERING CALORIES Most experienced gardeners pack their growing space to full capacity: tomatoes, lettuce, peas, beets, carrots, green beans…But no matter how many of those favored veggies a garden holds, ...

epub |eng | 2013-10-31 | Author:Simon Hart

ROCKWOOL Introduced to the UK in the early 1970s, this material soon became the most popular substrate for tomato production, a position it still occupies to this day. Rockwool (or ...

epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2018-12-31 | Author:David The Good [Good, David The]

Chapter 5: Find Your Niche When you visit enough nurseries, you start to get a feel for the different types. Some put their niche right on their sign, such as ...

epub |eng | 2020-04-06 | Author:McSheehy, Jill [McSheehy, Jill]

Harvesting and Storing Your Produce You’ve worked hard on planning, planting, and maintaining your garden, and now harvest time is approaching. What to do? First, you need to know when ...

epub |eng | 2020-04-15 | Author:Stephanie Rose

Common Sense and Safety with Compost Teas Making compost teas is a simple process, but there is a potential for error when brewing microorganisms. You could end up increasing harmful ...

azw3, epub |eng | 2019-09-02 | Author:Old Farmer’s Almanac

VEGETABLES Plant peas when forsythias bloom. Plant potatoes when the first dandelion blooms. Plant beets, carrots, cole crops (broccoli, brussels sprouts, collards), lettuce, and spinach when lilacs are in first ...

epub |eng | | Author:Elisabeth Chan

Opium Poppy Papaver somniferum Botanical family: Papaveraceae The opium poppy is cultivated legally and illegally in a wide band of the semi-tropical to monsoonal tropical regions of the world from ...

epub |eng | 2018-02-23 | Author:The Editors of Southern Living [The Editors of Southern Living]

GREEN REVIVAL Bringing a historic Charlottesville, Virginia, plantation garden back to life meant editing the plants and letting evergreens take center stage photographs by ROGER FOLEY The symmetrical plan for ...

epub |eng | 2013-06-05 | Author:Bonnie Jo Manion

Figure 5-2: Some common wire fencing, clockwise from top left: Rabbit Wire, 1⁄4” wire hardware cloth, and chain link. Chain link: Used commercially in landscapes. It’s commonly used as periphery ...

epub |eng | | Author:Frank Holzman

Perennial flowers are peculiar and often difficult to grow. Many require being planted on the surface of the potting soil and watered with a fine mist. It is good to ...

epub |eng | 2020-03-24 | Author:Johanna Silver

I’m not trying to get you to intentionally stress, starve, or restrict your plant’s growth in any way. But don’t fall for the myth that bigger plants are better. The ...

epub |eng | 2014-03-14 | Author:Ruth Rogers Clausen

Hepatica nobilis ‘Rosea’ Hesperaloe Asparagaceae hesperaloe These southwestern natives are similar in appearance to their relatives the yuccas, and are sometimes incorrectly labeled as such. Hesperaloes provide gardeners of their ...

epub |eng | 2009-03-14 | Author:David Deardorff & Kathryn Wadsworth

For insects in the soil environment, solutions begin on page 284. Insects in the soil environment can either be in the soil itself or inside your plant’s underground plant parts. ...