The variety of things that work successfuly as additions to compost are legion. I have managed a few times to find things that I won't add...
What Blue wing said! :) But seriously tho, the ants won't hurt much of anything. As a side bar, were the ants in soil, or on growing tips?...
Pine needles do start out acidic. By the time they're composted its about neutral, PH wise. :(
You have some very minor leaf-miner damage. Which if they were mine I might do nothing about. IMO they don't look droopy to me. How many...
As long as you don't mind your plants stealing your cigarettes and staying up all night talking... Sure feed 'em coffee. No, it won't hurt...
Any malus or prunus family tree will make a heck of a lot of bloom... I'm just sayin'
When I tried to acidify new england soil with organic components, ie peat coffee grounds etc; for blueberry, none of them were adaquate to my...
In my usual pursuit of local free manure for the garden, I stumbled onto an old (big) pile of sawdust. I'm on Ohioan clay and have some border...
I had hopes this "heath" sized plant might adapt to pot training as bonsai. It was positively glacial slow growing. It sat unchanging in pot...
The solanums are edible, I guess. Like the red/Green show, man's Prayer: "If I have to". I think I'd rather stuff any of the viburnum...
Based on the few existing mature trees I saw in new england. Most were selected for bigger fruit size. I got the current batch of seed I'm...
Yea, but they won't tolerate transplant at all. Some plants don't like to have their feet fiddled with. See my post on Paw paw...
I believe they are insect pollinated. Within 100 feet should do for pollination. I don't know if this tree can be cloned. Or, for that matter if...
I use four pallets tied with wire at the corners. Two bins work better as a team than any one (of any kind) singly.
Peas carrot radish worked for my children. Let them graze in garden. Start young, 3 or 4 is not too young. A providential pail of washing...
I've been growing paw paw off and on over the past 15 years. Most often new growers try to start with seed. There are things that simply must...
Black walnut makes an alopathic chemical called juglone to inhibit other trees from growing too near to it. Juglone in soil is peristant and...
California poppy seed like true poppy should be sown direct to field. I never got a good crop in NH.
Wisteria is used as bonsai by some. After trying it from seed, I think I'd take a rooted sample first. Like willow, needs on going root and...
This is a "G" rated group of forums. The forum owners won't let me use the adaquate words to describe how destructive and unwelcome I think this...
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