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 […]
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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 […]
How to Grow Agastache and Pronounce It
Garden author Doug Green tells how to grow Agastache and pronounce it properly with comments on varieties such as ‘Blue Fortune’ and others
Vegetable Studies: Nutrition of Leafy Vegetables
In research at Colorado State University, researchers measured the seasonal changes in the nutrition of leafy vegetables. The specific class of nutrients evaluated were the phenolics in vegetables such as arugula, amaranth, and Pac Choi. First Study Results Other than the amaranth, the levels of phenolics were higher in mid-season and late-season crops than the […]
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 […]
Deer Repellent Trial
Here’s a deer repellent trial we all want to know about. Researchers at Cornell U at Ithaca NY conducted field trials of deer repellants. It was a 10-week trial beginning in early Feb. The target shrub was Japanese yew, a plant favored by deer in this region. Plants were photographed and the images recorded and […]
Bounce Fabric Softener Dryer Sheets and Fungus Gnats.
This is no longer news as it was originally posted in 2011, but I thought I’d repost this as I rebuild the website. Here’s the deal. Raymond A. Cloyd (Kansas State University, Dept. of Entomology) and colleagues hung these dryer sheets around infected plants and found they did have repellant properties. Fungus gnats avoided the […]
Six Critical Things For Water Gardening in Containers
Water gardening in containers is pretty easy gardening. After all, a pond is simply a big container. You have to pick your container (obviously you pick something you like the look of) and it has to be waterproof. I personally like clay pots and I glue-gun some plastic to the bottom hole to make it […]
How To Dry Herbs for Highest Antioxidant Levels
Researchers at the University of Georgia dried freshly-harvested, greenhouse-grown leaves of rosemary (Rosmarinus of- ficinalis), motherwort (Leonuris cardiaca), and peppermint (Mentha piperita) in one of two ways. These leaves were dried in one of two ways – solar exposure in a greenhouse or a forced-air dryer at 104F or in the oven at 158F. All […]
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 …
