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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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Food grade DE is the best and you can use it in and out of the house. You can also take it ...»
Gardening: Weed?
I have this coming up all through my flowerbed. Can anyone tell me what it is? I can't find anything online that even looks remotely close. I live in the West Central part of Oklahoma if that means anything...
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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Thank you , I have started picking them as they get bigger , will keep doing it, hopefully ...»
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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LOL April! Sure, I'll send someone that way!! (not) :-) Do you think I should repot it this ...»
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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make sure you are not keeping it covered and allow it to go almost completely dry between ...»
Gardening: One Lonely Iris
Last year, I planted a number of iris cuttings from a friend. The only one to bloom has just opened. They are in full sun and I planted them shallow as I've done before successfully. What could be wrong?
Gardening: One of my red maple trees died.
We planted three red maple trees over two years ago and they did well the first year. Last summer two of them had some white powder looking stuff on the leaves. This year one of them did
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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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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: Does anyone have a easy way to get cactus sticks out of people.
Hubby was outside and trying to get weeds away from the cactus. Wind was blowing and he ended up with about 100 little fine cactus hairs stuck on arm and back. I tried baking soda and
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