Not to be confused with the similarly named good guys lacewings, these doily-like insects aren’t a welcome sight, especially on ornamental trees and shrubs. The damage they do to foliage can be confused with that of thrips or spider mites. Luckily, these pets are not nearly as serious or hard to control. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission....
Canna lilies are water-loving plants that thrive in full sun and high humidity. Unfortunately, this growing environment brings specific issues – mainly fungi, bacteria, and pest-borne viruses. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. They are easy to grow and have minimal disease issues – a gardener’s dream! If you have the space and live in USDA Hardiness Zones 7 to 10, I couldn’t recommend these plants more....
Letting your equipment fall into a degraded state is always a waste since you will simply have to purchase new if yours deteriorate to the point that the various devices can’t be brought back into shape. Before giving tips for maintaining your garden tools, we will provide a few important shopping hints. One of the first things to check on a new bit of kit is to see if the handle has been attached firmly....
As a legume grown long enough that it’s often described as ancient, its extensive track record should give you confidence that it can be cultivated with ease. In fact, when it comes to the history of agriculture, favas should be considered an elder, deserving of awe and respect – they have been used as a crop nearly as long as humans have been practicing agriculture. Kind of mind-boggling, isn’t it?...
Sure, you can buy it at just about any store with a respectable range of produce, but growing it takes relatively little effort, and you have a beautiful ornamental in the meantime. Plus, the fresh-from-the-soil rhizome is so tasty. You can also eat the shoots, flowers, and berries of this plant. Try to find those at your average supermarket! We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission....
Leaf lettuce refers to varieties that don’t produce any type of head. They are easier to grow than other varieties – including romaine, butterhead, and crisphead – and produce multiple harvests throughout the season. Homegrown lettuce is also more nutritious and flavorful than anything you will find at the grocery store. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission....
Some have a bushy nature, but most are born to climb and love to scale the heights! The most impressive displays are vertical, where their climbing prowess covers almost anything in their path, including arbors, columns, obelisks, pergolas, poles, posts, and trees. However, for vigorous upright growth, an effective trellis system is needed. When the vines no longer have something available to grab onto, they stop growing, and clematis is particular about the type of support it requires....
Sometimes considered a challenging crop, folks in cold regions with freezing winters often grow plants as annuals and discard them at season’s end. However, when you select the hardiest cultivars, and provide a little pre-winter TLC, your favorite berry-makers can yield sweet and tasty treats year after year. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission....
We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. Here they are: Big Leaf Hydrangeas Big leaf hydrangea, H. macrophylla, is a large species that encompasses three main groups: lace cap, mophead, and mountain. A Profusion of Memorable Blooms And there you have them – 23 spectacular hydrangeas to love in your landscape. It has a flattened “corymb” of showy blossoms surrounding a center of small buds....
But don’t wait until after the festivities are over to begin a good watering routine for your conifer – you’ll want to start right away! Keeping your living Christmas tree properly hydrated isn’t hard, but you’ll need to be aware of this coniferous plant’s moisture requirements to keep it at its happiest. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission....
This nutrient is sometimes referred to as the sunshine vitamin, because we can actually obtain it from sunlight. Aside from sourcing this essential nutrient via sun exposure, it can be found in several food sources, including a plant-based source you can grow at home. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. Here is what we will cover:...
Taller varieties make delightful bed anchors and foundation plantings, providing vertical foliar interest all summer long, before bursting with color come fall. Some are native, others are cultivated varieties, and they have a tendency to spread by self-sowing and through their vigorous root systems. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. Benefits of Division Although asters happily self-propagate, filling a garden and beyond, they are healthier, prettier, and better behaved with periodic dividing....
Anemone is a large genus, and many folks will be familiar with the charm of the daisy-like Grecian windflowers, aka Balkan anemones, that pop up in early spring. They’re soon followed by other species with delightful poppy-like flowers, some that bloom from late spring into summer and others flowering from late summer into fall. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission....
Fast growing, they quickly produce large clusters of delicious fruits all summer – with mild, sweet, or tangy flavors, depending on the variety. The earliest of tomatoes to ripen, the small one to two-inch fruits come in a range of delightful colors including black (in truth, a super-deep purple), green, mahogany, orange, pink, red, white, and yellow. These plants are fun to grow for fresh snacks, and they also make a tasty treat roasted on the grill, on party platters, and in salads....
It’s easy to disregard weeds as a troublesome nuisance to be yanked out or poisoned at the first opportunity. But many weeds are not only edible, they’re also medicinal and can improve your health, as well. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. Today, so many foragers delight in using the leaves, flowers, roots, and even the buds....
A few minutes later, I found a native blackberry, so I snapped a few pictures to share with friends and recorded the location on my phone. What made finding one member of the Rubus genus so exciting and finding another such a negative experience? Location, location, location. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission....
You may be familiar with the blue, pink, and purple shades commonly found in late summer to fall gardens. But, did you know that asters are also available in white? We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. Here’s the lineup: An Entr’acte of White With 11 types to choose from, you’re ready to put asters on your gardening to-do list....
In colder areas, where the ground freezes, they are often grown as annuals. They can be taken out of the ground in the fall, the corms stored during the winter months, and replanted the following spring. In addition, folks in regions that are warm and frost-free, but very rainy in winter, often dig up and store caladiums to prevent them from rotting in perpetually wet ground. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products....
So when they start to look a bit sad and wilty, it’s easy to assume that you’re to blame, and maybe you’ve done something wrong as a gardener. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. Fusarium wilt is an increasingly common problem in chrysanthemums and we don’t have a good handle on it – yet....
When you grow cucumbers, both aspects are important, particularly at harvest time. Sure, you can grow dozens of these cool, crispy veggies on every plant, or pick pounds at a time. But if they’re not crunchy and tasty, what’s the point? Or maybe you’ve gone too far the other way, putting all your effort into a few perfect fruits that are hardly enough for a salad or two. This is especially grim if you had your heart set on enough to make at least a dozen jars of homemade pickles with produce from your own garden....
