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How to Force Tulip Bulbs in Water
A cheerful display of blooming tulips can revive a gardener's spirit during the long, dragging winter months. By planning and preparing tulip bulbs in the autumn, blooms can be coaxed into making their...
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Facts About Elderberries
Elderberry shrubs (Sambucus) can be grown as ornamentals or for their juicy fruits, which offer a multitude of uses. In spring and summer, the shrubs are covered in white flowers and their berries are...
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List of Acid Loving Vegetable Plants
While acidic soil is detrimental to many plants, it is not altogether without advantage. Acidic soil can repel certain micro-organisms and bacteria, which might infect a plant through its roots or...
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Rabbit-Proof Vines
Vines add vertical interest, texture and colorful blooms to the garden. All these attributes won't matter, though, if rabbits eat your vines before you can enjoy them. Careful plant selection and...
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How to Plant a Tortoise Garden
A tortoise garden is a garden planted specifically to provide tortoises with natural, healthy food. Like all animals, tortoises have a specific diet, and these gardens are grown with plants that...
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Composted & Uncomposted Chicken Manure
Chicken manure is a source of nitrogen that is useful for your plants because it helps promote green, leafy growth. It is commercially available in composted form, but some gardeners have access to...
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How to Grow Edible Roses
Using flowers as ingredients for tea may seem relatively commonplace, and rose hips have been used to make a tea high in vitamin C for centuries. Using blooms as ingredients in a meal, on the other...
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How to Check the Garden Shed for Leaks
Garden sheds provide a convenient storage space for gardening tools, lawnmowers and landscaping items while reducing the clutter in your garage. Sheds eventually age and can obtain a musty smell inside...
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Growing Season for Ornamental Peppers
Fast gaining popularity as a bedding plant, container plant or houseplant, ornamental peppers (Capsicum annuum cultivars) have it all, including attractive foliage, extended bloom period, long-lasting...
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How to Build a Walk-Through Garden
Most vegetable gardens are laid out in neat rows, with little space to walk in between. Perennials are often planted in borders edging the perimeters of the yard. Imagine, though, a walk-through...
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Although grubs are a common pest of lawns, they sometimes end up in gardens adjoining patches of grass. Grub species such as the masked chafer (Cyclocephala hirta and C. pasadenae larvae) are often...
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Manure-Tolerant Shrubs
Using manure as fertilizer is an old-fashioned method to add nutrients to the soil. Even though manure has fewer nutrients than man-made fertilizer, it is an organic material that also improves the...
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Kinds of Berry Trees
Berry-producing trees add a splash of color to the landscape, offering a welcome contrast to a sea of green foliage. Berry trees also provide food for wildlife, from birds to deer, and some even...
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Yard Border Installation
Yard borders serve the purpose of dividing the grass portion of the yard from gardens and flowerbeds. Yard edging also serves a decorative purpose. The many lawn edging materials give you the...
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Suckers Growing on Corn Plants
Corn is an easy-to-grow crop if the plants have a sunny location and fertile soil. This warm-season crop produces ears of sweet kernels that quickly lose their natural sugars and yummy flavor after...
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Alaskan Pea Plant Development
Alaska peas (Pisum sativum "Alaska") are a type of English garden pea that contains less sugar and matures earlier than other pea plant cultivars. Alaska peas are sturdy, grow well in cooler weather...
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What Part of the Plant Is the Potato?
Potatoes are some of the world's most important food crops. Two major classes of these are familiar to most Americans, Irish (Solanum tuberosum) and sweet (Ipomoea batatas). Irish potatoes take their...
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Fava Bean Plant
The fava bean plant (Vicia faba) is a cool-season legume grown for its seeds or as a winter cover crop. These annual plants typically reach 2 to 6 feet tall and produce white flowers with dark...
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Can Fruit Trees Grow Next to Black Walnuts?
Black walnuts are large, impressive trees that produce a desirable nut with various culinary uses. Unfortunately, these stunning trees produce a toxin that can threaten the life of certain plants,...
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Do-It-Yourself: Shallow Terrace Landscaping
Terraced landscaping prevents erosion and provides level planting spaces in sloped yards. It reduces water runoff during heavy rains or irrigation, which cuts back on fertilizer pollution in nearby...
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