While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best. Tom Allen
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Starting Tomato Seeds
Starting tomato seeds is quite easy. Follow these basic steps for growing healhty transplants. |
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Soil Preparation for Potatoes
Potatoes will grow in just about any well-drained soil, but they dislike soggy soil. Because they do all their growing underground, they can expand more easily in loose, loamy soil than in heavy, compacted, clay soil that keeps plant roots from getting the air and water they need. |
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Choosing Tomato Varieties
If you're just starting out in a small backyard or community garden, try growing only a few tomato plants at |
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Garden Prep for Tomatoes
Where you plant your tomatoes in the garden is important. Tomatoes need at least six to eight hours of sun a day to produce well -- and full sun is best, especially in cooler, more northern climates. Tomato roots won't do well in soggy soil -- a sunny, well-drained part of your garden is best. |
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Getting Started With Potatoes
Since most home gardeners start potatoes by cutting and planting last season's tubers, common sense says you should use the healthiest tubers possible. |
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Container Tomatoes
Tomatoes will surprise you! They can withstand mighty close quarters and still deliver. If you don't have space in the ground, but you do have a hanging planter or a bushel basket and a sunny spot somewhere indoors or outside, prepare to grow your own tomatoes! |
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Southern Sword Fern (Nephrolepis cordifolia)
Plant Habit: Fern Life cycle: Perennial Sun Requirements: Full Shade, Partial Shade to Full Shade, Partial or Dappled Shade, Full Sun to Partial Shade Plant Height: 24 inches - 36 inches Plant Spread: 24 inches - 36 inches Leaves: Evergreen Underground structures: Rhizome Suitable Locations: Xeriscapic Uses: Will Naturalize, Groundcover Propagation: Other methods: Other, Stolons and runners, Division Containers: Suitable in 3 gallon or larger, Suitable in 1 gallon
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Rose (Rosa 'Red Cascade')
Bloom size: Small: under 2" Petal count: double: 16-25 petals Rose bloom color: Dark red Extra Bloom Info: In clusters Rebloom: Good Class: Miniature Growth Habit: Very short, 1-2 feet, very bushy; true groundcover rose. Can also be grown as climbing miniature, 6-8 feet tall. Fragrance: Mild Hybridizer & year: Ralph S. Moore, 1976 Optimal growing zones: USDA zone 5 and warmer Plant Habit: Shrub Life cycle: Perennial Sun Requirements: Full Sun Plant Height: 1-2 feet Plant Spread: 6-8 feet Leaves: Deciduous Flowers: Showy, Fragrant Flower Color: Red Flower Time: Spring, Summer, Fall Uses: Groundcover, Cut Flower Wildlife Attractant: Bees Propagation: Other methods: Cuttings: Stem, Cuttings: Tip Containers: Suitable in 3 gallon or larger, Needs repotting every 2 to 3 years, Needs excellent drainage in pots Miscellaneous: With thorns/spines/prickles/teeth
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Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Rock Solid')
AHS link: http://www.daylilies.org/DaylilyDB/detail.php?id=145687 Hybridizer: Stamile Year of Registration or Introduction: 2002 Foliage type: Dormant Scape height: 27 inches Bloom size: 4.75 inches Bloom time: Early midseason Plant Traits: Rebloom, Diurnal, Early Morning Opener (EMO) Bud Count: 31-35 Branching: 6-way Bloom Traits: Eye or Band, Edged Bloom Form: Single Color description: cream with plum violet eye and edge above green throat AHS Awards: Award of Merit, Honorable Mention Plant Habit: Herb/Forb Life cycle: Perennial Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade Flowers: Showy, Fragrant Propagation: Seeds: Will not come true from seed Propagation: Other methods: Division Ploidy: Tetraploid Parentage: Inner Destiny x Francois Verhaert
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Sea Berry (Hippophae rhamnoides)
Plant Habit: Shrub Life cycle: Perennial Sun Requirements: Full Sun, Full Sun to Partial Shade Water Preferences: Wet, Wet Mesic, Mesic, Dry Mesic, Dry Plant Height: 6-20+ feet (2- 6+m) Plant Spread: Usually wider than tall.. Males tend to be more upright and less spreading in habit than the females. Leaves: Good fall color, Unusual foliage color, Evergreen Fruit: Showy, Edible to birds Flower Time: Late spring or early summer Suitable Locations: Xeriscapic Uses: Windbreak or Hedge, Guardian plant, Culinary Herb, Medicinal Herb, Will Naturalize, Erosion control, Provides winter interest Edible Parts: Fruit Dynamic Accumulator: Nitrogen fixer Wildlife Attractant: Birds, Butterflies, Bees Resistances: Salt tolerant, Drought tolerant Propagation: Seeds: Stratify seeds, Can handle transplanting, Other info Propagation: Other methods: Cuttings: Stem, Cuttings: Tip, Cuttings: Root, Layering, Stolons and runners, Offsets Pollinators: Wind Miscellaneous: With thorns/spines/prickles/teeth, Dioecious, Tolerates poor soil
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Elephant's Ear (Alocasia gageana 'Albo-variegata')
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb Life cycle: Perennial Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade Water Preferences: Wet Mesic, Mesic Plant Height: 18 to 36 inches (45-90 cm) Plant Spread: 18 to 36 inches (45-90 cm) Flower Time: Other Underground structures: Rhizome Resistances: Rabbit Resistant, Deer Resistant Toxicity: Other Propagation: Seeds: Other info Propagation: Other methods: Division, Offsets Containers: Suitable in 1 gallon, Suitable in 3 gallon or larger, Needs excellent drainage in pots
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Photo by gwhizz
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Photo by lauriemorningglory "Yummy citrus colors. A favorite iris!"
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Photo by LoriMT
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Photo by Hillsepicacti "Hylocereus undatus. An early morning picture of a nice bloom on one of my dragon fruit plants one of my Dagon fruit"
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Photo by skylark "blooms 10 months from seed sprouting"
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Photo by OrchidBob
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Photo by arctangent "Bonaventure dahlia - Compare this yellow bloom of a nominally bronze cultivar with other photos for it in the database, and you'll see a wide range of colors."
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Photo by dirtdorphins
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Photo by HamiltonSquare "Within the translucent sepals you can observe the developing buds long before they emerge in bloom."
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Photo by skylark "very vigorous with leaves to 4""
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I believe in process. I believe in four seasons. I believe that winter's tough, but spring's coming. I believe that there's a growing season. And I think that you realize that in life, you grow. You get better. Steve Southerland
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