Plants. Vegetables. Parthenocarpic Vegetables. Herbs. Indoor. How to Build an Lighted Herb Book Case. Killing an indoor herb plant during the winter is almost like a rite of passage for gardeners.
So don't worry if your rosemary croaked in the past. The problem is most likely your house, not you. Low indoor humidity and light levels have knocked off more than a few indoor herbs, especially when combined with overzealous watering. Experts often recommend growing herbs under artificial light, but who wants a shop light hanging in their living room? So we came up with the perfect compromise: concealing a fluorescent light inside a bookcase.
Grapes. Growing Grapes in the Home Fruit Planting, HYG-1423-98. 2001 Fyffe Court, Columbus, OH 43210-1096 Gary Gao Introduction Figure 1.
A beautiful grape arbor at Stan Hywet Garden in Akron. Grapes are an excellent fruit for fresh use or processing into jam, jelly, juice, pie, or wine. Cultivar Selection Grape cultivars may be of the American, European, or French hybrid types. Depending on the cultivars selected, grapevines will produce berries that may be red, blue, white (greenish-yellow), purple, or black with a distinctive flavor. By selecting and planting different cultivars in the home planting, the gardener can spread the harvest over several weeks. Figure 2. Disease tolerance is another important factor to consider since wet springs, and hot and humid summers tend to favor common diseases that attack grapes.
Figs. Potted Fig Tree Care During the Winter Months. Those container grown fig trees that are moved into a garage or unheated area to spend the winter don’t need much attention but they do require a degree of special fig tree care and an occasional watering even during their dormant rest periods.
Today I wanted to share a technique to water those containers that has been just too convenient with all the snow that we have received this winter. Rather than hauling water to the fig trees, you can simply pack a bit of snow onto the top of the planters wherever you are storing them for the winter.
Actinidia arguta issai. Espaliers. Berries. Blueberries. I grow a slew of both common and uncommon fruits, from apples to kiwis to pears to paw-paws.
I love them all, but if pressed to recommend just one must-grow fruit, it would be blueberries. These native Americans have stolen my heart for many reasons. The fruit is abundant and seductively sweet, especially when allowed to fully ripen on the shrub—a luxury commercial growers cannot afford. The shrubs make beautiful specimens in the landscape, not surprising considering their lineage to the mountain laurel, rhododendron, and azalea. In spring, their branches are festooned with delicate, bell-shaped flowers.
Apricots. Banana. How To Divide Your Dwarf Banana. One of the Tropical Dwarf Bananas that we grow, called Musa Cavendish 'Super Dwarf' is an amazingly fast grower, especially when taken outside during the warm days of summer.
Its typical growing pattern is to send out "side pups" (new banana plants). These side pups are vital for the health and integrity of the main banana plant but only one pup is needed. The other side pups can be divided, re-potted and given away. Banana tree care. Backyard Orchard Culture.
Nectarine. Stark® HoneyGlo™ Miniature Nectarine - Nectarine Trees - Stark Bro's. Pears. Asian Pears. Bartlett Pear. 25+ Clever Ideas Gardeners Won’t Want To Miss. Did you know you can make your own rooting hormone using willow twigs?
Educational. In The Garden with Ron Wilson. Monthly To-Do Lists. Garden Clubs. Garden Girl TV. Generate your own vegetable planting calendar on-line. I've put together a planting calendar that will calculate the planting dates for crops for whatever zone you're in.
Just enter your last frost date, click the button and everything gets calculated. (magic!) It's not quite done yet. I don't think the last few dates calculate yet. Check back to this page and I'll add fall planting too. Please let me know if any planting dates don't seem right. Since I have two gardens with different frost dates, I'm planning to print out a calendar for each and then highlight the crops I'll plant in each garden.
Seeds. Fruit Trees. Design. Plant Combinations. Garden Paths. Vertical Gardening. Containers. Succession Planting. Vegetables & Herbs. Raised Beds. Fountains. Maroon/Reddish Plants. Posted Friday, June 8th 2012 @ 2am If you’d like to add a little pizzazz to your landscape, think about plants that have great foliage colors.
Two colors that really stand out are maroons and yellows. So this week let’s look at a few colorful maroon / red leafed plants that you may want to consider to add pizzazz to your landscape or containers! Click here to continue reading. Although different shades of greens and foliage textures can really make interesting changes and contrasts in the landscape, plants that have colorful foliage (other than green) can really add some zip, contrast, pizzazz, or bring focus to a particular part of the garden, landscape or container. Trees: -Japanese Maple (Acer p. -‘ Red’ Cherry -‘Thundercloud’ Purple Plum.