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  • mine is about this size but has been growing since march (photo from mylavendergarden.com)

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)
Leah Belverd
Leah Belverd Concord, NC Yesterday
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    Sia@South 47th 10 minutes ago
    Lavender from seed is horrific. Plus, lavenders in general do not like to be overfed with ...»
    fertilizer.

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  • My Prickly Pear is ready to bloom again.
  • It also has lots of near ripe fruit on it, which I plan to try to eat. 1

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 ...»
fruit which I'd like to eat. So I'm looking for a way to rid my plant of ants without poisoning my fruit. Anyone out there have a solution?

Donna Shipley-Richie
Donna Shipley-Richie Mckinleyville, CA Yesterday
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    Mikell Paulson 28 minutes ago
    Cinnamon! Work great and is safe around food and pets!
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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. ...»

But the other day my daughter came running inside screaming, "The patio is swarming with ants!" I went out to see what was going on and I see a ton of ants making a line across the lawn and headed directly for the pomegranate tree. They were climbing up the trunk and crawling all over the leaves! By nature, I'm the "live and let live" type when it comes to insects outdoors. So I left them alone, assuming they could do no harm. But this morning I noticed that many of the tree's leaves have shriveled up and I'm afraid that ants will kill the tree or at least ruin the fruit.

Does anyone have any information that can help me?

First of all, why are the ants suddenly attacking this tree?

Can they do real damage?

If so, what is the simplest way to get them to stop and keep them off of the tree?

I prefer a natural remedy to using chemicals, but if only chemicals will help I'm willing to go that route.

Yair S
Yair S 2 days ago
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    Losvlam 56 minutes ago
    we use quicklime to draw a line around the place, ( people used quicklime to liming the widows ...»
    in the summer to block out the sun out l the greenhouses , so ask in gardencenters or paintshops for the powder) i stay out the garden , i'm allergic, this will not harm the tree or your place, or try to lure them to an other place with sweets

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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??
Jess W
Jess W 2 days ago
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    Jess W 3 hours ago
    Thanks for all the help everyone! I am glad to hear that the black plastic is definitely ...»
    something to remove. I will add a photo once I fix it in the next couple of weeks!

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Gardening: Toadstools

I how can I get rid of hundreds of ink toadstools in my very small , garden , they are even growing under my artificial lawn.
Raylee
Raylee Australia 18 hours ago
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    KMS Woodworks 5 hours ago
    What you see (the toad stool) is just a small part of the "plant". The mush room part is the ...»
    fruiting body (reproductive part) of the organism. The far greater bulk of the fungi are comprised of Mycelium ...these are fine hair like structures. Fungi feed on dead plant matter, so keeping that "out" of the soil will help. rather than leaving grass clippings and trimmings in the garden remove them and compost them "off site". The higher density or critical mass of a compost bin often allows these to decompose at a higher temp via bacteriological methods..temps where fungi are challenged.

    Hand picking early will reduce the spore load for future generations.

    http://www.rolawndirect.co.uk/aftercare-toad...

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  • This is what it looked like when I first transplanted it. It's about 1 1/2 inches taller now and has more leaves on the top. But not much growth to the "trunk".

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 ...»
circumference. Is there something I can do to help it along? I really don't want to lose it as it's an offspring of a very large Maple we recently had to cut down due to disease. Thank you for any advice you can give me.

Donna N
Donna N Weatherford, OK 2 days ago
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    Vickie Foss 5 hours ago
    Donna, I have a Silver Maple in my front yard, and LOVE it! My husband threatens to take it ...»
    down, but he knows how fond I am of it. I love setting at the window watching the birds and squirels and chipmunks !

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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 ...»
able to go into the garden and weed, etc., so I can't crawl into the garden to do that. Any suggestions??? 2 years in a row they have ruined our crop and it is our kids favorite veggie. Thanks!

Jen Pontow
Jen Pontow Combined Locks, WI 2 days ago
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    Sia@South 47th 2 minutes ago
    The tapes, balloons and other hanging things never kept the birds away from my crops out here ...»
    in Northern CA. They must just be used to seeing those types of things, because they fly right through them and have a buffet party LOL

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Gardening: Black roaches in my potted grape vine

Watering this morning, discovered black roaches coming out of soil. What can I use?
Alice Palumbo
Alice Palumbo Corpus Christi, TX 6 hours ago
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Gardening: Composting...

Hi, I'm a new gardener...just love this website. I just started my own composting since a lot of you're talking about it and it seems pretty easy enough. I had some grass cut, kitchen ...»
scraps(all vegs and fruits)...and egg shells. It smell so bad I'm afraid that my neighbors might tell me to move out....any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Jen

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Jenny Waldorf, MD 2 hours ago
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Gardening: I accidently cut down my small trumpet vine

will it grow back this year
Martha
Martha Cincinnati, OH 2 days ago
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    Evelyn McMullen 3 hours ago
    Same things happened with a large crape myrtle, be patient your plant will eventually come ...»
    back on it's own.

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