Composting at Seed Savers Exchange

Quick Navigation Main Navigation About Us Education & Events Ways to Give & Membership Preservation Shop Learn Composting is groovy for the environment and wastefulness management , and it can be good for the garden as well ! Compost improves stain wellness by you could merge compost with other method of improving soil , such as splay crops and planting book binding crops . One of active compost piles at Seed Savers Exchange...

December 19, 2024 · 4 min · 788 words · Shirley Castro

Dandelion Pesto

I have an exciting foraged intellectual nourishment formula to share with you today ! I ’ve wanted to make blowball pesto for a long clip , but have recently been inspired by a brand new book by Rosalee de la Forêt , Alchemy of Herbs . This record is full of awe-inspiring herbal recipe , I really want to taste them all ! But , I really have it away pesto and thedandelionsare starting to pop up , so this pesto made with bitter dandelion green was first on my lean ....

December 19, 2024 · 4 min · 689 words · Eric Hughes

Did Terrain kill Smith & Hawken?

Smith & Hawken RIPHere is the sign on the Smith and Hawkin website , mightily now . Scott ’s Miracle Grow Company herald today that they are shutting down their high - end horticulture retail business Smith & Hawken this workweek . ( I love ! Scott ’s Miracle raise ! ! They bought the ship’s company in 2004 … interesting . ) . I think it is not surprising that the stain was direct in this counseling , after all , the star sign were all there ....

December 19, 2024 · 8 min · 1533 words · Anthony Turner

Fixing An Overwatered Lawn – What To Do About Overwatered Grass

When you buy through connection on our site , we may garner an affiliate delegation . Here ’s how it run . Do cervid like hydrangeas ? Everything you demand to now about deer and hydrangea , including the best types to establish if you have deer in your region . Looking for the longest blossom bushes for your borders , pathways and lawn edgings ? You ’ll screw these 8 flowering shrub that blossom all summer long...

December 19, 2024 · 2 min · 247 words · David Boone

Got Orange Bugs on Your Tomato Plants? How to Identify and Control Destructive Leaf Footed Bugs

This time of year , our vegetable harvesting should be in full swinging . If you ’ve been picking love apple and bell black pepper , you may have seen a group of bugs we call stinkbugs . Around the beginning of May , you may have seen one to five of them on your vegetables . Now , the populations look to be high and are hurting your vegetables ....

December 19, 2024 · 12 min · 2344 words · Robert Reid

Growing the Vibrant Orange Bird of Paradise Flowering Plant

With its vivid orange bloom and alien coming into court the Orange Bird of Paradise make a stunning increase to tropic gardens . This distinctive blossoming industrial plant is well-fixed to mature and care for reward you with its entrance beauty . In this guidebook , learn all about successfully school the Orange Bird of Paradise at home An Overview of Orange Bird of Paradise Plants The Orange Bird of Paradise , scientifically know as Strelitzia reginae , is a herbaceous perennial that can extend to up to 5 ft grandiloquent and wide ....

December 19, 2024 · 6 min · 1091 words · Veronica Douglas

Here is the BEST Time to Plant Chives in Arizona (2023)

Do you want to grow chives in Arizona , but do n’t know when to plant them ? Planting chives is not as easy as it seems . Here ’s why : So if you set them alfresco too early in the spring they will pass . And if you plant them too belatedly , your chives wo n’t produce a harvesting before the first rime arrives in the autumn ....

December 19, 2024 · 3 min · 480 words · Nicole Dennis

Horticultural Expo organisers are positive for the future

Delegates at the International Association of Horticultural Producers ( AIPH ) International Horticultural Expo Conference get the positive news of progress from seven cities that are busy preparing their approaching , AIPH - okay event . Each of these events will last around six month and between them expect to attract over 20 million visitors . They follow the successful Expo 2019 Beijing that took place in China last yr , attracting 10 million visitors ....

December 19, 2024 · 3 min · 485 words · Derrick Drake

How do you take care of a Schefflera tree?

occupy care of a Schefflera tree , also known as an umbrella tree , ask attention to its light , water , and temperature demand . As an experienced horticulture and landscaping expert , I can bring home the bacon you with detailed care instructions to insure the wellness and outgrowth of your Schefflera . Light is an crucial factor for your Schefflera ’s well - being . It thrives in burnished indirect light , so localize it near a windowpane with filtered sunlight is idealistic ....

December 19, 2024 · 4 min · 712 words · Johnny Nguyen

How to Identify and Manage 15 Common Arugula Pests

Arugula , Eruca genus Vesicaria , is a leafy salad dark-green in the Brassicaceae family that also includes broccoli , kale , cauliflower , kale , and Swiss chard . It ’s a self - seed annual for zone 3 to 11 that thrives in full Sunday and well - draining soil . You may know arugula as “ rocket ” or “ rucola , ” and appreciate its piquant , peppery tang ....

December 19, 2024 · 21 min · 4294 words · Heather Kim

JD Propagation will soon be the new supplier for Dümmen Orange’s genetics in Australia

“ On behalf of Dümmen Orange , I would care to express our gratitude to Ron , George , Greg , Mike , and the Propagation Australia squad for their exceptional contribution to the industry and , in special , to Dümmen Orange genetics . Propagation Australia has decided to close its doors at the goal of 2022 . We like them luck in whatever the hereafter brings , ” say Matthew Curtis , who is the Modern Business Development Manager for Australia and New Zealand to the Asia Pacific Team ....

December 19, 2024 · 3 min · 505 words · Glenda Gonzalez

Maximize Your Garden Space with 5-Gallon Buckets: A Step-by-Step Guide to Planting Squash

Quick notice Squash , a darling fellow member of the Cucurbitaceae fellowship , offers a diverse raiment of smorgasbord that can thrive in various conditions . While traditionally cultivated in Brobdingnagian garden , squelch can also besuccessfully grownin confine spaces using 5 - gallon bucketful . This innovative method acting offer several advantages , making it an idealistic option for urban gardener , container enthusiast , and those withlimited gardening space ....

December 19, 2024 · 4 min · 647 words · Amber Brown

My Late-Fall To-Do List

We had our first icing and freeze warn the first weekend of November , and as a gardener living in South Carolina , I consider this pretty early for such intense coldness . I woke up one cockcrow and really had to genuflect the Robert Lee Frost off my wife ’s car . The next twenty-four hour period , flurries and amass snowfall covered my neighbourhood , break down a 130 - class - old meteorologic record and making internal headlines ....

December 19, 2024 · 3 min · 536 words · Elizabeth Watkins