Tag: gardening
group name: gardening
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December 01, 2009 09:48 PM EST --
Landscaping – Transplanting Transplanting is always tricky, but sometimes the health of your plants requires it. Different plants are best transplanted at different times of year, so no ‘one-size-fits-all’ . . .
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July 02, 2009 11:53 AM EDT --
After quite a stormy night, I decided to go take a look at my many frugal gardening experiments this morning. With the extreme heat and/or rain storms we have had in South Florida for the past many weeks, . . .
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January 22, 2009 08:02 PM EST --
I'm so excited that our new house is surrounded by big trees, and I'm even more excited that I have several hibiscus trees and a beautiful tree with big white flowers. We even have a few palm . . .
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February 23, 2008 09:11 AM EST --
In the spring of 2005, while wandering though my favorite local greenhouse deciding what kind of annuals to plant this year in the pots on my deck, I came across a cute little Meyers lemon tree. It was . . .
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September 25, 2009 02:26 PM EDT --
This morning my husband had told me he would take me to Home Depot. I got the boys all dressed up and ready for a Home Depot field trip. In the car he announced that he would stay in the car with the . . .
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March 20, 2009 08:00 AM EDT --
Companion Planting Companion planting is an excellent, all natural way to help control pests and problems in your garden. When it’s used in vegetable gardens, companion planting can also help enhance . . .
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April 06, 2009 12:51 PM EDT --
Wow! I transplanted my hostas last year and they are coming back. They were planted all together and last year they looked like they were suffocating. So, I spread them out all over my flower . . .
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May 05, 2009 08:06 PM EDT --
This afternoon the boys and I needed to cool down in the backyard, once the shade began covering it and the breeze kept it cool. Our walk home from school was very hot in 89 degrees sunshine, and although . . .
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July 11, 2008 09:45 PM EDT --
These beautiful flowers are from the Orchid Cactus, genus Epiphyllum. There are over 200 varieties of this plant. The white one shown here is the species Oxypetalum, with blooms a white/near white . . .
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June 18, 2008 10:53 PM EDT --
We have fresh green onions year round. As long as the ground is not too froze for me to pull them up, I just run out to the garden and get fresh onions whenever I need them. If the ground is frozen, I . . .
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November 10, 2009 06:35 PM EST --
After looking at all the beautiful garden posts all summer, where my tomatoes were crumbling in the heat, and my lettuce refused to grow, I can finally show you some of my wonderful garden projects. . . .
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April 28, 2006 06:10 PM EDT --
A Gardener is as a Gardener Does
At my house brilliant color photographs on glossy paper scream out from the covers of a half dozen or more gardener's wish books in a pile . . .
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April 22, 2006 12:36 PM EDT --
The E-box--How to make one for your deck!
Last year someone told me about an E-box that she had ordered and grew amazing veggies with just three of them. She paid somewhere between $40-$50 for them. . . .
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April 05, 2009 01:28 PM EDT --
This tree started blooming for the first time this year. I have no idea what it is. Can someone identify the tree? The purple blooms have a sweet fragrance. I have four in the yard, they . . .
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March 13, 2006 02:21 PM EST --
I had grown up on the south shore of Boston and commuting to the city on the busy trains became an everyday way of life. I became quite proficient at hopping from bus to train to another train in . . .
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August 27, 2007 09:16 AM EDT --
With the state of the environment, and “going green” in the news almost daily lately, there has been a renewed interest in how to use your garden to insulate your home. When done properly, . . .
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May 21, 2008 12:42 AM EDT --
The first thing you need to do is learn a little bit about flowers in general. You need to learn the difference between annuals and perennials, for example. Annuals need to be replanted every year, but . . .
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May 21, 2008 12:43 AM EDT --
Raised bed gardening is a way of growing plants inside beds that are raised up above the normal level of the soil in the garden. They're typically housed inside a wooden frame, generally rectangular. . . .
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March 02, 2009 04:07 PM EST --
I bought a hibiscus tree last year, I call it my Charlie Brown tree.
It was on the clearance rack and I had to save it.
You may remember the photos I posted last year.
I brought it in for the . . .
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July 05, 2009 04:39 PM EDT --
While visiting a friend, I noticed this raised garden/greenhouse her husband made - isn't it something?
The white bucket on the right is for rainwater collection . . .
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