Doug Greens Garden : gardening as if my best life depended on it
This is what cold damage (and a bit of wind to add to this plant's misery) looks like in petunias. Peter Petunia took one for the team to share this misery with you. Those white spots aren't a …
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I just couldn't resist. Yes, it's a silly thing but... (seriously folks) we've not had a hard frost in several weeks. And yes, it's April 25 and our regular last frost date is somewhere about 3 weeks …
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I started transplanting annual flowers (petunias) this morning. Well, I started and finished because we only need 200 plants this year for around the top of the stone wall and here and there in the …
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There are three primary causes too low temperaturesold tissues (mostly on older leaves) andphosphorus deficiency. So what to do? Raise the growing temperature.Prune off old leaves.Feed …
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Do You Like The Smell Of Petunias? It turns out that neither do a large number of insects and in fact, it turns out that the isolated compound that forms that smell will kill several important …
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There seems to be some confusion in the minds of folks about the different forms of impatiens out in the gardens right now, so this brief article is intended to set the record straight. To begin with, …
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