How Plants Climb, Climbing Plants, Trellises, Vines. Morning glories and clematis use leaf tendrils to climb.
Shop for Flower Trellises. Growing up rather than out is a good way to save space in the garden. Garden Design Basics. Plant a Cutting Garden. Dahlias are a staple of my cutting garden.
One year I featured just two varieties: Who Dun It and Black Narcissus. Tips for Success Start your own seedlings. You'll get to grow all the best varieties and have an abundance of seedlings for yourself and to share. Pick your flowers often; the more you pick, the more flowers the plants will produce. Backyard Berries, Blueberries, Strawberries, Raspberries. Berries and other so-called small fruits generally don't require as much space as full-size fruit trees.
By growing several different types, you can enjoy home-grown fruit from early summer through late fall. Keep in mind that the term “small” in small fruits refers to the fruit size, not the size of the plant. In many parts of the country, a full-size, highbush blueberry plant may grow up to 12 feet tall and 6 feet wide.
Blackberries can grow 8 feet tall and spread even wider. How to Grow Asparagus. If you love asparagus and want to grow some yourself, waste no time in getting started.
Even with the best of care, an asparagus bed won't hit its stride for several years. But once that happens, the bed will produce an abundant crop of spears spring after spring for at least the next 20 to 30 years. In the old days, gardeners were told to prepare an asparagus bed by digging an 18" deep trench and then backfilling it with a mix of compost and soil. Thanks to plant breeders at Rutgers University in New Jersey and elsewhere, today's improved varieties of asparagus are less work to plant (6" to 12" deep is adequate) and produce almost twice as many spears per plant.
The production increases are due to the fact that these hybrids are all-male cultivars, so no energy is wasted producing seeds. Before planting a new asparagus bed, it's critical to eradicate all the weeds and grasses from the planting area — even if this requires a full year of advance preparation. How to Grow Sweet Potatoes, Potato Grow Bags. Sweet potatoes, just harvested.
LIKE regular potatoes, sweet potatoes are starchy tubers that form underground. But the heart-leafed vine that produces sweet potatoes requires a longer growing season (100 to 140 days) and warmer soil than the kind of plant that produces regular "white" potatoes. Until recently, that's made them almost impossible to grow in the colder parts of the country. The New Hardiness Map, Hardiness Zones. Explore More On its web site, the USDA offers click-and-zoom maps and single-state maps, so you can really zoom in on your zone.
If you don't know your zone, you can find it by zip code. Explore at planthardiness.ars.usda.gov Will that pretty perennial or berry bush grow in my backyard? Growing Calendar - Burpee's Home Garden Advice, When to Grow, Sow, Plant and Harvest atBurpee. Elevated Cedar Raised Bed Kit. Grow Vegetables & Fruit to Feed Your Family. The Internet's Garden Community. Alaska Botanical Garden.
Cooperative Extension Service. The Kenai Peninsula Borough lies directly south of Anchorage, the state’s largest population center.
Covering approximately 25,000 square miles of which 15,700 are land, we are bordered by the waters of the Gulf of Alaska and Prince William Sound, home to the Chigmit and Kenai Mountains with forests, lakes and glaciers. Our diverse economy includes oil and gas industries, commercial fishing and tourism. We are home to several major suburban areas and many rural communities and native villages which grace us with almost 55,000 residents, from our traditional residents to homesteaders to new arrivals.
Extension programming must therefore meet a wide variety of interests. We serve farmers from large scale hay producers and peony growers to home and hobby gardeners. We encourage all to stop by for a visit when you are in the area. Cold frames. Used to protect tender plants or rooted cuttings during the colder months, a cold frame is simply a box with a transparent lid or cover.
It acts as a passive solar energy collector and reservoir. During the day, the sun's rays heat the air and soil in the frame; at night, the heat absorbed by the soil radiates out, keeping the plants warm. A cold frame is useful at other times of year as well. In spring, it provides an ideal environment for hardening off annual flower and vegetable seedlings started indoors. Seeds of many plants can be sown directly in the frame and grown there until it's time to transplant them to the garden.
How to build a raised bed for your garden. Grow a garden journal. Project: Sunset's classic adobe oven. You'll find most of the materials you need at a home center, except for the cardboard barrel, often used by movers.
(You cut it in half lengthwise and use it to form the oven's curving top.)