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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 from seed is horrific. Plus, lavenders in general do not like to be overfed with ...»
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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Cinnamon! Work great and is safe around food and pets!
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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we use quicklime to draw a line around the place, ( people used quicklime to liming the widows ...»
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??
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Thanks for all the help everyone! I am glad to hear that the black plastic is definitely ...»
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.
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What you see (the toad stool) is just a small part of the "plant". The mush room part is 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, I have a Silver Maple in my front yard, and LOVE it! My husband threatens to take it ...»
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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The tapes, balloons and other hanging things never kept the birds away from my crops out here ...»
Gardening: Black roaches in my potted grape vine
Watering this morning, discovered black roaches coming out of soil. What can I use?
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
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Same things happened with a large crape myrtle, be patient your plant will eventually come ...»