Posted on Sep 10, 2009 under Best Perennials |
Today I show you a great fall plant that blooms in white! An October Flowering Gem In White
During the month of October, perennial gardens can be empty of flowers. Much of the country is undergoing a transition into winter, and color starts to shift to trees and shrubs.
One trick I like to use to make my perennial gardens pop in the fall sunlight is to use white — and one of the best white late-season perennials is Eupatorium rugosum ‘Chocolate’. This plant will grow three or four feet tall and is native to the edges of woodland areas in many parts of the country. This plant adds deep, rich accents to any border, and in early to mid fall, corymbs of tiny white flowers at the stem tips seem to sparkle against the dark, purple-toned foliage.
This plant tends to spread quite a bit, so you’ll need to give it a three- or four-foot-wide area in which to grow. If you push it into a shadier location, it can still flower, but it will tend to flop over.
This wonderful plant is hardy to zone 4, so most of you can enjoy this in your own gardens.
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Posted on Sep 03, 2009 under Gardening Tips |
Growing an organic herb garden is easy with these tips, get expert tips and advice on organic herb gardening in this free video.
Expert: Gale Gassiot
Bio: Gale Gassiot makes her own organic compost or “gardener’s black gold.”
Duration : 0:2:54
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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 20, 2009 under Gardening Tips |
Drying fresh herbs is easy with these tips, get expert tips and advice on organic herb gardening in this free video.
Expert: Gale Gassiot
Bio: Gale Gassiot makes her own organic compost or “gardener’s black gold.”
Duration : 0:3:15
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Posted on Aug 13, 2009 under Gardening Tips |
Award winning garden expert Steve Brookes shares great fun and informative Gardening Tips. These tips are about container gardening.
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Posted on Jul 30, 2009 under Best Seeds |
Make money fast with Last Stand.
You might have seen other Last Stand gold farms, but this one is the best.
1) It’s a victorious setup.
2) It supports 34+ Marigolds from start to end.
3) It uses Gold Magnets to pick up coins for you.
3b) Forget about the Gold Magnets and you could have 36 Marigolds, and use only 7 slots!
4) It only uses 9 slots, so those farming for their 10th slot don’t have to worry.
Here are some noted features of this triple-lane setup.
1) It has a powerful top land lane. (3 Gloom-Shrooms)
2) It has a more powerful water lane. (5 Gloom-Shrooms)
3) Interesting defense against dolphin zombies, with a Marigold obstacle and pumpkin! Note the unprotected Marigold too, thanks to the powerful water lane.
4) Weaknesses involve replacing the water lane garlic promptly, and the bottom land lane. However, due to the efficiency of resources, you have enough to manage. Tip, place additional pumpkins in front of Football Zombies to stall them in the Gloom-Shroom’s poisonous area.
The best setup makes full efficient use of all resources. However, if you’re having trouble managing resources then you can gain 50 extra sun, and improve the powerful land lane dramatically by moving the pumpkin back one, and removing the Marigold. It’s one less Marigold, but then the Zombies have to fight though 4 spaces to get to your pumpkin and the pumpkin will get hurt less. You might not even have to worry about replacing that pumpkin, meaning more sun for the weak land line defense, or garlic replacements. It’s real easy to defend actively instead of reactively with this setup!
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Posted on Jul 24, 2009 under Gardening Tips |
Get tips for growing organic peppers, tomatoes and garlic in your vegetable garden in this free gardening video lesson for beginners.
Expert: Gale Gassiot
Bio: Gale Gassiot makes her own organic compost or “gardener’s black gold.”
Duration : 0:2:5
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Posted on Jul 16, 2009 under Gardening Tips |
Learn Gardening Tips and advice on digging a hole from a horticulture expert in this free gardening video.
Expert: Craig Morell
Bio: Craig Morell has been growing orchids & tropical plants for 30+ years, & has a BA in Ornamental Horticulture. He founded Landscape Restorations, a horticultural consulting firm.
Filmmaker: Paul Muller
Duration : 0:1:4
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Posted on Jul 16, 2009 under Best Tomatoes |
7/11/2008Growing Wisdom:Pruning Tomatoes
Pruning tomatoes is one of the easiest and most beneficial things you can do to increase fruit size and help lessen the chances of disease. First, let’s talk about which tomatoes to prune. Indeterminate (climbing) tomatoes should be staked, trellised, or caged, and pruned for best results. Determinate (bush) tomatoes do not need pruning and may be grown with or without support. Now what is the difference?
The fruit of determinate tomatoes ripens within a concentrated time period. The fruit of indeterminate tomato varieties ripens over an extended period, and will continue to grow until they are affected by the first hard frost. For example, you may have purchased a container tomato plant for your patio. Typically, the tomatoes commercially available in containers are determinate and do not need pruning. However, you still should give it some support. On the other hand, the cherry tomato plant in your garden is most likely an indeterminate plant – if you don’t keep it in check, it might take over!
The basic method of pruning is to remove the suckers from the leaf axils of the tomato plant. Click here to see a video on how to prune tomatoes. The sucker is the growth that comes up between the main leader of the plant and the side branches. There are a couple of schools of thought on removing suckers. Some people remove all the suckers. Some leave the first sucker after the first set of flowers. This gives you two leaders. I do the latter.
Why are we doing this? If you remove the suckers you will have larger, sweeter, and, in my opinion, healthier tomatoes. If you leave them you will get more tomatoes, but the plant is more susceptible to disease and other health issues.
If you have not removed any suckers all season and they have grown out of control, you should be careful about taking off the entire sucker, as it could cause too much sun to hit the developing fruit. In this case remove parts of the sucker to the last set of …
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Posted on Jul 10, 2009 under Best Perennials |
The best conditions for growing perennial flowers coincide with weed growth patterns, whether it be in sun or shade, in warm or cool areas. Grow perennial flowers with tips from a professional gardener in this free video on gardening.
Expert: Yolonda Vanveen
Contact: www.vanveenbulbs.com
Bio: Yolanda Vanveen has been growing and selling flower bulbs on the internet, at garden shows and at farmers markets for nearly 20 years.
Filmmaker: Daron Stetner
Duration : 0:2:41
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