When a search doesn't answer your questions, and you ask, you also get answers for the folks too timid to ask. I try to only growl at the folks...
Don't grow them, and don't eat them. But I bet ripe ones are softer than green ones. When all else fails pick one you think is ripest, and try it?
Chery, you are enough south of me and are container growing some of your trees, any advice I give, amy not be that useful to you. I have this...
If the concept of multiply grafted trees, leads you to doing your own grafting, then the idea works. Much like starting asparagus. If it only...
If you are of the temperment to double dig, a trench deeper than a shovels (blade) length, might give you a place to bury brush without chopping...
My vote is for a barrier, with a law suit a close runner up. I'm not sure there is an herbicide equal to long term control of bamboo.
In my estimation, asparagus is one of the swine of the garden. It wants the most sun, water, manure, and mulch. Stint any of those and you'll get...
For me, fall planting seems to give my hard neck garlic the time to grow feet and the bulb fills out in the spring. I'm not sure there is a way...
Just a guess, cutworm? Give it a very gentle tug, to see if head & feet are still connected.
Celery has very small feet. It needs liberal compost and side dressings of compost as the season progress. On sandy soil I had to water bout every...
Sometimes purpling of stems can be an indicator of inadaquate potasium uptake. The usual fix is not to add more P of n-P-k fertilizers, rather...
Fer my two cents, Rose and asparagus are the swine of a garden. Not because they are messy, rather cause they want all the sun water poop and...
None of the cultivars I grew of scuttelaria liked full sun. Skullcap, ginseng, blood root, lady slipper, are all candidates for under a grape...
Rhubarb is a member of the buckwheat family. It does best for me thickly mulched and watered when drouthy. A bit of afternoon shade doesn't hurt...
If I have any dissent, it is I *do* grow from seed. And have prefferd it over many trials. Asparagus' corm is large and makes its best spears...
Herbicide use is not permitted with organic practice.
Round-up will also kill herbs. It is not possible to just spray unwanted plants.
In the fall give your new rhubarb a nice thick layer of leaf-mulch. Water as needed. If it gets fed it could produce for many years.
Passiflora, passionflower. Don't bother trying to start from seed. Sweet grass, by division. Sweetfern, again by division. Blood root, by...
Clorosis (yellowing leaves) can be caused by over or under watering. This can become acute with container grown plants. If your plants are...
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