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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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Read the other day on Home talk that you spray the "scout" ants as they first appear--on the ...»
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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Donna, by the fall it should be big enough to handle the winter. You might want to protect the ...»
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Cedar apple rust and it has nothing to do with iron on the water. Usually it is on leaves and ...»
Can Someone Give Me A Hand?
I've been dying to try my hand at one of the hypertufa hand planters again this year. Last year I tried one and half my fingers fell off, so pretty much anything would be an improvement.
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Super cute!!
Gardening: My Lavender is lackluster! Help?
I'm having great luck with all my flowers/plants so far this spring EXCEPT for my lavender. It's quite pathetic looking, frankly. I'm not sure if lavender is generally a slow-grower but mine is growing at less than a snails pace. Any tips out there for helping my lavender to grow and thrive? I want to help it, but not sure how! Thanks everyone :) (It is potted on my deck)
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Lavender has typically been slow growing for me in PA. Because lavender is a sub-shrub, they ...»
May in Our Cottage Garden
May and June are my favorite times in our garden-everything is fresh and bursting with new growth. We have an English cottage garden here at Oak Cottage. Take a stroll down the garden
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Love seeing your roses! Thanks for sharing....Can't wait for them to start here in PA :)
Gardening: Ants on My Prickly Pear!
A friend noticed some tiny (sugar) ants on my Prickly Pear then told me they would kill it. They are not easy to grow here and I really don't want to loose it. At this time it also has
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