Is frost approaching, but your tomatoes aren’t turning red on the vine? Never fear. You can pick your unripe tomatoes and ripen them them off the vine. While the most delicious tomato is home-grown and ripened on the vine, this is not always a reality, especially if you live in …
Have you gone into your garden on a hot summer’s day and found your once-perfect broccoli has suddenly shot up scraggly stems that have started to flower? If so, then your broccoli has bolted, where they start growing tall and flowering can occur early on instead of growing larger heads …
Deer are a serious problem for gardens, because these uninvited four legged guests eat away at flowers, leaves and young branches of vegetables, decorative plants and even herbs sometimes. But when it comes to herbs, they are not our cervine visitors, and there are quite a few that stags, does and …
“There is no rose without thorns,” goes the saying – and it’s wrong. You can grow beautiful shrubs and climbers of the most famous flower in the world and have all the advantages, blooms, beautiful foliage, colors and fragrance, but without the painful spikes! This is a great plus for …
One of the most exciting parts of gardening is flipping through seed catalogues in the winter and finding new vegetables to grow. As you will quickly discover, a carrot is not “just a carrot” but there are numerous varieties to choose from. There are 5 types of carrots: Nantes, Imperator, …
Peppers are a heat-loving tropical plant that, unfortunately, don’t always grow as fast we hope. You might be getting particularly worried as your long-season hot peppers are not maturing and the first fall frost is quickly approaching. Or maybe your peppers are just growing slowly and you don’t know why. …
There are many beautiful flowers that have an amazing scent, but few can match the intoxicating fragrance of a rose. The fragrance of roses is the sweetest of all flowers, experts say. And when you grow them in your garden they add an “aroma-scented” atmosphere with their wonderfully scented blooms. …
Popular belief has it that roses only grow in full Sun, but some varieties actually tolerate and even thrive some shade. So if your garden does not have lots of sunlight, but you still want to grow these thorny flowers of love, you still can. Your best bet is to …
The Sun that shines in Southern states can brighten up the colors of flowers, and some annuals will bloom all through summer there. Tickseed, petunias and cosmos look great in the light, but not all short lived plants can stand such hot days as you get in California or Florida! …
Growing fragrant and colorful roses that climb over gates, gazebos and pergolas can turn any garden into a little piece of heaven. Close your eyes and imagine them in that sunny green spot you had in mind… I know why you want one now! But we all know the truth: …
