Archives for August, 2009
Posted on Aug 27, 2009 under Best Perennials |
When most people think about grass, they think of the green stuff that grows on their lawn. But ornamental grasses are like ornamental flowers, they come in various colors and are bright and vibrant.
Did you know that grass – healthy grass – comes in more colors than various shades of green? There are dozens and dozens of species, in various colors ranging from bright red , gold, copper, bronze, blue and silver. By selecting grasses with various complimentary hues, your garden can be a riot of color in all seasons.
Gold and yellow grasses (common name)
Ogon
Variegatus
Skinner’s Gold
Bronze
Aurea
Golden Toupee
Blue and gray grasses
Superba
Siskiyou Blue
Canyon Prince
Cloud Nine
Dallas Blues
Dark-leaved grasses
Red Baron
Nigrescens
Shenandoah
Burgundy Giant
Pele’s smoke
Just as roses are given popular names, so are grasses. “Skinner’s Gold,” for example, is a ornamental grass, clump-forming and cool season, that typically grows to 2′ tall and spreads by creeping rhizomes. Their leaf blades are typically 6-12″ long and feature attractive green and gold vertical striping.” ‘Skinner’s Gold’ is a native-European grass, but it has been cultivated in the United States with success.
“Canyon Prince” is a native Californian grass. The flower spikes to 6′ tall.
“Red Baron” is a Japanese blood grass. Its foliage is green with red tips – and looks best when the light shines through it. Experts suggest that they be planted in masses or among rocks.
Just as studying the history of flower propagation is a fascinating hobby, so is the study of the cultivation of grasses, the history of their naming and of their usage. (It also provides some good stories to tell around a barbecue or picnic out on the patio.)
If you’d like to plant ornamental grasses in your landscape, you must first conduct a pH test of the soil in the areas where you intend to plant them, so you know whether the soil is acidic or alkaline. Most plants grow best in slightly acidic soil.
You’ll also want to discuss the types of grasses you wish to use with your local gardening expert, to make sure that they are suitable for your local climate. Find out what kind of care they need in each season – some grasses are perennials that will spring back to life year after year, but some are annuals and will need to be replanted.
While ornamental grasses look fine on their own, in various contrasting colors and styles, they can also make a suitable background for various flowers. It all depends on your imagination and your desire to create a unique and beautiful landscape.
Mr.Andrew Caxton
http://www.articlesbase.com/home-improvement-articles/landscape-with-ornamental-grasses-125139.html
Posted on Aug 27, 2009 under Gardening Tips |
Learn Gardening Tips & advice on how to troubleshoot garden problems in this free horticulture & beginner gardening video clip.
Duration : 0:1:15
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Posted on Aug 27, 2009 under Best Vegetables |
http://www.DedeMed.com Step By Step On How To Make Great Baba Ghanoush (Muttabal Beitanjan)
For This Baba Ghanoush Recipe and Other Great Mediterranean Food Recipes
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Baba Ghanoush is actually not made with tahini, it is made with lemon juice and garlic and olive oil and garnished with all kinds of vegetables. The version made in this video which include tahini is called Muttabal Beitenjan. But since many confuse the both, I am labeling this video as Baba Ghanoush.
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Duration : 0:4:52
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Posted on Aug 27, 2009 under Best Seeds |
For the first time in history the Green House Seed Co. shows the world how to grow their award winning Arjan’s Haze #1. This is the Arjan’s Haze #1 video with the Russian Subtitles.
Duration : 0:11:48
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Posted on Aug 27, 2009 under Best Tomatoes |
South African alien Apartheid is front and center in this weekend’s District
9 so Brett decided to dig into the Top 5 Movie Metaphors of all time. No
similes’ allowed!
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For more about movies from Current: http://current.com/movies
Duration : 0:2:28
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Posted on Aug 27, 2009 under Best Perennials |
Squirrel Nut Zippers – “Ghost of Stephen Foster” music video. From the album “Perennial Favorites” (Mammoth Records). Winner of “Best Animated Music Video” at the 1999 Vancouver Animation Festival. Directed by Raymond Persi and Matthew Nastuk.
http://www.snzippers.com
http://www.myspace.com/snzippers
Duration : 0:3:39
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Posted on Aug 27, 2009 under Best For Garden |
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Posted on Aug 25, 2009 under Gardening Tips |
I am asking this question again because I believe that when I asked it was a very inconvenient time, (very late at night) though I did get many wonderful answers I would still like to know from people who have not answered 
soil…. getting the soil the best it can be is key to a great garden…. whatever you have to do to get good soil is well worth the work in the end… a soil test tells you where to start…. most soils need and do really well if given LOTS of compost…. it’s wonderful stuff!!..
tools… have what you need…. digging is so much easier if you have the right tools…. my hubby’s helping son with a bed at son’s new house… they had a terrible time digging in the rocky soil of a new build…. but once they got their hands on my maddock/pick, the work went so much faster!!…. and that goes for any of the garden tools…. from wagons to pruners… get the best you can and take good care of them!!….
water…. after our drought, lots of us know that there’s water to be had in many places that we didn’t think about before…. I will save and store water often now… from rain barrels to soda bottles… water is a big deal…. more soaker hoses and drip irrigation systems are on the list for this year…
mulches…. this is one of the best things you can do for your garden, be it for flowers or for foods….. mulch inhibits weeds, cools the soil in the hot sun and keeps soil temperatures more even during spring’s early warm days…. it saves on watering, keeps the soil moist with what water it has already…. choose your mulch according to what you need it to do…. be pretty?… keep the weeds off the tomatoes?… hold up the strawberries?…. keep the weeds out of the flowers?…. each mulch we typically use has a distinct reason….. newspaper stops weeds …. landscape fabric lets air and water thru…. pine needles lets air thru…. pine bark is slow to decompose and keeps cats out pretty good…. hardwood looks special…. colored mulches have their place I guess, but they’re too much for this old gal… and rubber mulch?.. mmm… is your garden bed a playground for kiddies???…. straw over paper is great in the veggies…. shredded paper is, too…
research EVERYTHING…. get the names of your plants and look them up… this computer will tell you LOADS of stuff about plants…. don’t ever BUY a plant you don’t get a tag and a name with….. (unless you recognise it already)…. when you buy, pull that plant OUT of the pot and check the roots… are they white and healthy looking or black and soggy rot?…. do they spread out or go around the pot again and again?…. do they look big enuff to support the top of the plant?… then put it back in the pot!!…. don’t buy a sickly looking plant unless you’re prepared to isolate it from everything else till it’s ‘better’……
buy your plants from a neighbor hood nursery or grower…. someone in your area…. online shipping is nice but not all plants grown in PA can live thru summer in NC…. see?….
start small and expand as your knowledge base expands…. otherwise you get overwhelmed and give up too soon…. plan your garden with expansion in mind for later…. I started with one corner of the back fence…. now the only spot that’s NOT a part of the garden is the septic field!!….
whatever else I’d tell you isn’t enuff unless you love gardening… while it’s fun, it’s wonderful… but when it’s no longer fun, but a job, then you have too much and should cut back…. age and health sometimes decide when you have to do that…..
happy gardening!!
Posted on Aug 25, 2009 under Best Vegetables |
I don’t like carrots or celery plain.
I can’t think of any vegetables that actually taste good w/o anything on them.
carrots are my fav, also radishes.
Posted on Aug 25, 2009 under Best Seeds |
there’s a milk recipe i want to make…but it calls for cardamom seeds and i don’t think it’s available here..so what’s the next best thing?
You can use ground cardamom but you will need to use more of this than the seeds. Or you can use equal parts ground nutmeg and cinnamon OR equal parts ground cloves and cinnamon OR nutmeg OR cinnamon.