plant care
How To Manage Plants And Cold Frame
If you live in the south you probably won’t need a cold frame. In the north, a cold frame is desirable until you can get your plants well along before freezing weather.
Pansies Rate High Above All Others
Though chrysanthemums and dahlias are making a brave showing, this month is really the windup of the gardening year in the West. It is evident that summer’s wear and tear have taken their toll.
Gourds and What Your Great Grandma Knows
The pioneer mother, long before Civil War days, did not have aluminum or copper containers for sugar, salt or coffee. The fact is, she did not even have the old fashioned tin clipper! The housewife of her time was trained to make such utensils herself. Yes, she was the original “do-it-yourself woman.” How did she make such things she needed for her large family? Easy and simple… by raising gourds.
Learn to Build and Fertilizer Your Soil
Soil is the gardener’s bread and butter, much like dough is for the chef. Without good soil all the effort in the world can come to naught, just as poor dough can lay to waste even the most extravagant culinary effort. Soil varies by area into three broad categories, and also varies in quality from area to area. The categories that soil falls into are claylike, sandy and silt. Ideal soil contains a good mixture of the three types, and is called good garden loam. Clay soil possesses the greatest water-holding capability, while sandy soil possesses the least.
