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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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I love coffee so I always keep my grounds for my plants in garden. Do they help keep deer ...»
Growing Beets in the Garden, Enjoying Beets in the Kitchen
Delicious and beautiful, beets are easy to grow vegetables, which are best planted direct from seed in the garden.
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And so healthy too! Luis Curbelo
Garden Divas
Two new garden divas have joined my garden and are putting on a show for all to see! Hydrangea Macrophylla "Nantucket Blue" (zones 5 to 9) is a reblooming hydrangea that will bloom June
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Empress of Dirt - Melissa ~ have you seen these yet?
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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The burning bush you have is probably the shrub euonymus alatus, a large shrub that leafs out ...»
How to attract hummingbirds
I had such a wonderful response to an earlier question that I decided to ask another. What plants/bushes native to Florida's gulf coast will attract hummingbirds? Simply hanging feeders hasn't proven successful.
Use Your Left Over Potato Water in the Garden.
Don't throw out that left over potato water. Put it to use in the garden. Be sure it is unsalted (salted water will hurt your plants.)
Pour it on the garden near your plants.Starchy potato water will spur the release of plant nutrients in the soil so it makes a great addition. (plants like starch better than your figure does!)
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i make a lot of potatoes each week, this is very helpful!
Is Something Wrong with my Mom's Japanese Maple?
I was up in Indianapolis, IN this past weekend and my momwas showing me her Japanese Maple. Sheis wondering what’s wrong with it. Itold her I would see what I could find out. It has
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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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I sure would not want that in my eyes or on my skin be very very careful!!
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Thank you so much!!!
Poor blooms on Nellie Moser clematis
My Nellie Moser clematis, the kind with the pink and white stripes, did not bloom well this year. The flowers were smaller, color washed out, and didn't last long at all. It did well last year but still isn't a very big plant for as long as I have had it. I have it growing behind a fairly large azalea, to shade the roots, but I am wondering if the azalea is too big, and blocking too much sun from the plant. Could this be the problem or are there other reasons for a clematis to not do well?
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I have had my Clematis for at least 4-5 years now..this year has been the most beautiful ...»