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Gardening

Gardening

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Gardening is one of the hottest topics on Hometalk. Whether you're gardening as a profession, or as a hobby, you'll find awesome gardening inspiration on Hometalk. Do you need to identify a plant? Post a photo of it, and a gardening expert will be able to identify it for you. Is your garden blooming in a spectacular way? Share the joy with fellow gardening buffs. All garden talk is welcome on Hometalk; so whether you're planting a flower garden, looking for green gardening tips, or researching the perfect gardening tools, you've come to the right place.



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My Garden and Yard After the Rain

There was a break in the rain this morning, so I ventured out with my camera to capture some of the amazing growth that's happened with all the rain here. Come see our flowers and garden. ...»
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Karen Cooper @ Dogs Don't... Decatur, GA 20 hours ago
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    Tracey T 3 minutes ago
    Such pretty flowers!
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ROSES GROWING BEAUTIFUL WITH COFFEE GROUNDS

MY ROSES ARE LOVING THE COFFEE GROUNDS AND ALL THE RAIN WE BEEN GETTING I LET THE GROUNDS DRY THEN SPRINKLE AROUND THE BASE THEY ARE JUST BEAUTIFUL
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Penny L Lees Summit, MO 19 hours ago
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    Pat gonzales 36 seconds ago
    Most acid loving plants love Coffee. Like tomatoes, roses, . My grandmother also placed egg ...»
    shells around plants it ads calcium to them. She could grow anything. I do it about once a month depending on how much water you give them... I also just learned that if you place baking soda around tomatoes it sweetens them

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  • We took some of our previously dried assorted peppers and crushed them up in a bag. Jalapeño, cayenne and other peppers.
  • After crushing up the peppers, dump them into a boiling pot of water.
  • After boiling the crushed up peppers for maybe 15-20 minutes, pour the solution into a bowl and strain out the crushed peppers. We used a paper towel because it was handy. Put it over the bowl and pour slowly.
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Garden Pepper Spray. An All Natural Alternative To Insecticides.

I posted a question earlier about a problem I had with burnt/brown looking spots and holes in my red bell pepper plant's leaves. One response mentioned making an all natural alternative ...»
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    Pat gonzales 6 minutes ago
    cats hate this stuff as well. They will not go to the bathroom in those area's
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Use Your Old Coffee Grounds in the Garden.

Are you a big coffee drinker? If you are, you will have used coffee grounds. Don't throw them away...used them in the garden.

There are many ways to use them. Camellias, hydrangeas, and roses are all nitrogen loving plants so the coffee grounds help.

The grounds are also a great deterrent for slugs and snails around hostas and other plants that the pests love.

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Carol Speake - The Garden... Raleigh, NC Yesterday
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    Tracey T 10 minutes ago
    All this great advice here from one post. Thank you for sharing your info! Does anyone know if ...»
    this would work on Crotons?

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What is this plant?

This plant (the two bright green spikey-looking ones) grows in the area of WV where my husband is from, but we have no idea what it is. He says it reseeds itself every year and the plant itself gets very tall, around 4 or 5 feet. I would appreciate any comments.
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Lynne Reis-Napier Florence, KY 14 hours ago
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    Lynne Reis-Napier 11 minutes ago
    I agree, Douglas. I've had cosmos before and I do have a burning bush in the front of the ...»
    house so I'm very familiar with that. I just have no idea what this is. It never flowers - just dies out and reseeds. There are actually several here - one tall one, a shorter and smaller ones growing. The birds ate them all last year but this bunch landed here and we haven't moved them since the birds aren't bothering them this year. Really strange. Thank you for your comment!

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Flower Boxes for the Playhouse

With the addition of some flower boxes full of pink impatiens, the play house gets a punch of colour! These inexpensive flower boxes were spray painted to match the playhouse porch ...»
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    Tara @ Suburble 12 minutes ago
    Thank you, Alexandra! :)
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Gardenia or Camellia

Which is it ?? Live in zone 8 and it gets maybe 2 hours of sun in the morning, shade the rest of the day. I just fertilized it 2 days ago and put some straw around it.
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Trent-Tonya Sharp Franklinton, LA 20 hours ago
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    Athena Reynolds 13 minutes ago
    GARDENIA! I love those you are so lucky!
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Peonies

Should the greenery of the peony be cut after it has bloomed? If so, when would be the best time to cut?
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Sandy Wright Independence, MO 12 hours ago
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    We moved into our home last September, after the folage on the peonies were done I trimed the ...»
    bush back since nothing had been done in this yard for over 7 years. My question is how do you separate the bush? Mine appears to have never been split and his massive, not sure how old it is but the home is 70+ years old.

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Gardenia

my Gardenia is so tall ( almost to the top of house) & the limbs are so heavy...can I cut it back & when is best time to do it?
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Dianne Millington, TN 2 days ago
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    Joetta Burton 26 minutes ago
    I have the same bush problem. I haven't trimmed it back in 25 years. ? I didn't know that I ...»
    should trim it back. The leaves and flowers are both smaller for the last several years. How do I treat this problem??

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Sweeten Your Tomatoes With Baking Soda.

Want to grow the sweetest tomatoes around? Use baking soda near your plants in the garden.

Just sprinkle a small amount of baking soda on the soil around your tomato plants. (be careful not to get any on the plant itself and be also careful with young seedlings which are more tender.) The baking soda absorbs into the soil and lowers the acidity levels. This will give you tomatoes that are sweet rather than the tart flavor that store bought tomatoes have. ...»

Carol Speake - The Gardening Cook
Carol Speake - The Garden... Raleigh, NC 2 days ago
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    Michelle Seay 28 minutes ago
    The baking soda is for Live plants. Mix 1 tsp. with a gallon of water and water your tomato ...»
    plants. This will make your tomatoes taste sweeter when you harvest them.

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