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Gardening: How do I stop birds from eating our sugar snap peas?
We have an issue with birds coming into our vegetable garden and eating the sugar snap peas that are growing before they the peas actually form. How do I keep the birds out? I need to be
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Gardening: Suggestions for window boxes. No fake plants.
So very hot here in the summer. Any creative ideas for window boxes. No real or fake plants, please.
Gardening: Reclaiming a flower bed...
I need help! I am trying reclaim a garden bed in the side of my house. Someone laid several layers of black plastic down years ago it appears and it has been over grown with moss. I have gotten 3 hostas to take in it. Am I right that I should pull up the plastic, til it and start over??
Gardening: Silver Maple Sapling.
I had a silver maple sapling come up in one of my flower baskets when I brought them inside last fall..It stayed alive in the basket all winter and even had 2 little leaves on it. This spring, I transplanted it in a 5 gallon bucket making sure to get all of the roots even the tap root. It's doing wonderful and now has at least 10 leaves on the top of the "knitting needle" sized stem (or should I say trunk?). It's definitely getting taller but I'm not seeing much growth in the
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Gardening: Tomatoes in South Texas
We are in our second year in San Antonio and last year had very little yield from our tomato plants. This year we put them in the ground early (end of March). The plants have blossoms
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Gardening: What do ido with the dead flowers on my amaryllas plants?
Do I cut the old stems off or leave them?
Gardening: My pomegranate tree is being attacked by ants!
I love looking outside and seeing how well our pomegranate tree is dong this year. We've raised it over the past 6 years from a tiny sapling and now it's producing some beautiful fruit.
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Gardening: Bougainvillea's??
Can I get someone to feed me in on how to care for these beautiful fragile looking flowers? I've never had one, saw them at a market decided to try it since I understand it was a Texas
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