What’s eating the bark at the base of trees and shrubs, and can I save my plant? The answer to this question is, “it depends.” Let’s deal with some of the basic questions first. What strips bark off young trees and shrubs? In my experience, there are two animals which do the vast majority of […]
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Introducing Two Website Changes
Just in case you missed it, I’ve just created two new websites. DougGreensOrganicVegetableGardening DougGreensPerennialFlowers.com You can find these links at the top of the sidebar. Why? Well… I could say it seemed like a good idea at the time. Or, I could say it was because most of the posts were never seen – buried […]
What Happens When You Publish 187 Posts All At Once
OK, so I managed to post 187 posts all at once to Facebook and the resulting flood on my timeline was nothing short of spectacular. It was confusing until I figured it out – but spectacular nevertheless. As an aside, every time I post on Facebook, they ask me to advertise the post (“boost it” […]
What’s Eating The Bark At The Base Of Trees and Shrubs and Can I Save My Plants?
What’s eating the bark at the base of trees and shrubs, and can I save my plant? The answer to this question is, “it depends.” Let’s deal with some of the basic questions first. What strips bark off young trees and shrubs? In my experience, there are two animals which do the vast majority of […]
85 Plants for Gardening Under Black Walnut Trees
These are some of the plants that have been reported as growing under black walnut trees. Note that while some of these might live, they might not thrive or grow as well as they would outside of the influence of the walnut. Hormone Secretion For the record, the reason that plants do not grow well […]
You Don’t Have to Do Reality Gardening
As regular readers know, I’ve been doing a series of “real” shots of my gardens and the very real problems I’m dealing with this year. There are precious few glamour “reality gardening” shots because I’m shooting with my cell phone and simply posting what that camera sees. And I’m getting some great feedback – comments […]
I’m Growing The All America Seeds In My 2019 Garden Trials
The seeds that I am testing and growing for the All America seeds this year include: Vegetable Seeds Watermelon, ‘Mini Love’ Watermelon: Cal Sweet Bush Pepper : Just Sweet Potato: Clancy Tomato: Fire Fly Tomato: Red Torch Tomato: Cocktail, Red Racer Flower Seeds Marigold: Big Duck Gold Petunia: Carmen Velour Wave Begonia: Viking XL Red […]
Should I Add Garden Soil To My Garden
I want to improve my garden soil and I want to add garden soil to my garden. Is this a good idea? Many folks think they have to add garden soil to get a decent soil and I see this all the time: Let’s add some soil to make the garden better!” The reality is […]
What You Add To Soil To Grow Acid Loving Plants
If you are trying to acidify your soil for growing acid-loving plants such as blueberries and rhododendrons, it has been traditional to recommend adding either sulfur or acid–based organic material such as pine needles or oak leaves. Recent research has shown that adding sulfur will drop pH over the course of a year, but that […]
Will My Plants Survive The Polar Vortex?
If you live in an area that’s been hit by the recent polar vortex, you may be worried about your plants. Let me give you a few guidelines about what you may expect to see next spring. Always note however these are guidelines and individual gardens will be different so you may find that one […]
Bee Pollination in Tomatoes
File this in the who would have thought it category. Researchers in Australia did a trial on greenhouse-grown tomato pollination using bees and using vibrating hand-wands. Both are routinely used in commercial greenhouses. We already know that wand-pollination reduces seed setting compared to the bees but now the researchers have shown that bee-pollinated tomatoes actually […]
Who’s Doug Green?
Let's cut to the chase here without the usual fluff you usually read on websites about authors. The honest truth is I'm super-curious about most things and I want to know how stuff works. I'm not content to read the usual blah-blah. I want real information based on real data. (just because somebody online says it works is no reason for me to believe it) This means you're going to get the best …
