Enjoy a collection of gardening tips!
This delicate-looking perennial plant bears heart-shaped pendant blooms that appear to have a drop of blood on the tip of the bloom, this is why it’s named bleeding heart (Dicentra spectabillis).
Bleeding heart, also known as Lady’s Locket, Lady-in-the-Bath, and Lyre Flower, is a spring garden favorite and will be finished blooming by mid-summer. It’s easy to propagate a bleeding heart from a cutting. Use these tips for successful propagation of this attractive and interesting flower.
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Well-drained soil helps plants absorb water, air, and nutrients effectively through their roots. Soil that drains adequately can help your plant avoid diseases such as root rot, fungal infections, and vascular wilts. Do you want your green friend to grow into a healthy adult plant? You need to nurture it using well-drained soil!
Here are some ways to make well-drained soil:
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The poinsettia is the most popular holiday plant around Christmas time. Not so much after Christmas though. Caring for poinsettia indoors is a little tricky. It’s leaves begin falling off soon after the Holidays are over, making it the most popular and the most discarded plant of all time. So how can you save a poinsettia indoors and enjoy it for years to come?
With a little investment of time throughout the year, a poinsettia plant can continue to grow. They put on a vivid display of leaf color for many Holiday seasons. Use these tips and learn how to take care of a poinsettia indoors.
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An organic vegetable garden can be very productive if you know a few tips and tricks. Growing organically means that no chemicals are used in the soil or on the plants. No synthetic fertilizer, weeds killers, pesticides, or growth hormones can be used in an organic garden.
But how will the plants grow and produce without the assistance of chemical additives, sprays, granules, and potions? Simple. Let the plants do all the work.
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Having a beautiful, lush, green lawn is easy to accomplish and inexpensive but it will require quality grass seed, diligence, and patience. The right seeds, right sowing time, and a few other tips and tricks will help you plant and maintain a healthy green lawn.
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Did you know? According to the UN Food & Agriculture Organization’s statistics, pollinators (such as bees) affect 35% of global agricultural to help produce 87% of the world’s leading crops. That effectively means our survival on Earth depends on pollinators.
Let’s find out who are pollinators and their role in pollination!
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As the weather begins to cool and signal the end of summer it does not mean that garden season has to end. There are several fall/autumn vegetables that can still be planted. Depending on what part of the world you live in, but they will produce a late fall crop or be ready to harvest in early spring.
Planting certain crops in early fall in mild climates will enable you to harvest fresh produce throughout most of the winter. Cabbage, kale, broccoli, and other cruciferous vegetables grow well in cool weather and so do these 5 vegetables.
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A fall garden can be just a lovely and filled with color as a spring or summer garden, you just have to some advanced planning and planting to get the fall color you want.
Many plants that bloom in the fall to provide floral and foliage color, plus berries, bark, and other focal points that provide color and interest. Berry-producing plants in the fall garden will provide food for wildlife also.
Use these tips for creating a colorful and eye-opening fall garden to extend the outdoor color season and wildlife visitors.
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The United States (and all other countries) has different climates that range from hot and tropical to cold and icy. Even within the same state the terrain can go from sea level and a sandy, sunny beach to tall mountainous, shady, tree-covered land. The terrain change also changes the climate of the area. That directly impacts the plants that can be grown in each climate.
This is why the USDA Hardiness Zones were created – to help people understand what will, and what will not, thrive in their particular climates. These zones are also called Growing Zones, Planting Zones, or Heat Zones and they can vary within a state or province.
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An azalea will give you signs that it’s not happy and something is wrong with it before it dies. All plants provide us with warning signs. However, we often overlook them and give them more water in an attempt to correct whatever is ailing them.
Giving a dying azalea more water will not revive it and restore it to health. Too much water might be the problem. Look for these signs to know if your azalea is still alive. If the problem is caught in time, the plant might be salvageable.
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