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Growing Seasons And Tiny Climates

In: Home & Family

27 Nov 2009

November is the month in the South of mid-America when the killing frost puts a stop to all flowering activity in our gardens. By the middle of the month, practically all of the area has been subjected to a killing frost. In some isolated spots there are gardens that escape damage until December. One of the weather phenomena of this area seems to be that if a garden escapes this first surge of winter, it may remain in active growth until after the first of the year.

The Tool For Colorful Gardens

In: Home & Family

23 Nov 2009

Have made that cold frame yet? My, how I wish I could tempt everyone into making a cold frame, even though it were only a little fellow two by three feet. Actually three by six feet is a better size since the cello-glass which you would probably use for covering it comes in three foot widths.

Pretty Flowers Of Peonies

In: Home & Family

14 Oct 2009

The bloom is not the only attractive part. Few perennials are so colorful in May and June and then retain such fine, abundant foliage throughout the growing season as do the peonies. In the flower border, peony foliage provides a bold mass of rich green as a background for later flowers.

May Garden Calendar

In: Home & Family

1 Oct 2009

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Planting Chore For Fall

In: Home & Family

19 Aug 2009

Too many people in the North believe that lawn making is mainly a springtime activity and not many know that late summer is a very good time to come to the aid of an established lawn or build a new one. The weather is ideal for grass seed germination starting early in August in the far North and a week later for each hundred miles southward.

Greener Plants From A Touch Of Iron

In: Home & Family

20 Jul 2009

Iron is necessary to the nutrition of plants. It plays an important role in the synthesis of carbohydrates in the plants. When iron is lacking in the soil for plant nutrition, the leaves begin to turn yellow. In extreme cases the leaves show no green color at all. This is an important problem in many parts of this region.

Pest Control In The South

In: Home & Family

20 Jun 2009

June may be bride’s month to many people, but to the busy southern gardener, it is “groom” month. Lawns – Watering, fertilizing and mowing make up the grooming operations for the lawn this month. The effect of nitrogen fertilizer applied in April will have about worn off by now and a light feeding is necessary.

Lawn Duties for the Southern Landscape

In: Home & Family

14 Jun 2009

Lawns are growing rapidly during May in the South and so are the weeds. Many gardeners are plagued with crabgrass. May is the best month to combat this pest with selective crabgrass killers. The seeds of this annual do not germinate until May in most of the South and the young plants are the most susceptible to the weed killers. If you want to do a complete job of eradicating all kinds of weeds call in the lawn professionals for a complete treatment to kill practically everything but the lawn grasses themselves.

Water Lily Planting Large and Small

In: Home & Family

14 Jun 2009

Most of the really pressing chores should be done by now in the northern garden, so you can take time out to enjoy your garden. I realize that this is a difficult thing to do, for every year I say to myself, “Slow down, take it easy; dont be a slave to the garden and landscape.” But every year its the same old story: In common with about fifty million other gardeners, I always bite off more than I can chew. I have only a little time to really look at and enjoy the late spring beauty of Oriental poppies, delphinium, lilium and the rest of the June flowering perennials.

How To for the Southern May Lawns

In: Home & Family

13 Jun 2009

Lawns are growing rapidly during May in the South and so are the weeds. Many gardeners are plagued with crabgrass. May is the best month to combat this pest with selective crabgrass killers. The seeds of this annual do not germinate until May in most of the South and the young plants are the most susceptible to the weed killers. If you want to do a complete job of eradicating all kinds of weeds call in the lawn professionals for a complete treatment to kill practically everything but the lawn grasses themselves.


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