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Photo of a hedge apple.

What Are Hedge Apples Good For?

A free range chicken on a farm.

Keeping Chickens Out of Your Garden

Bamboo

Uses for Sweet Gum Balls

Uses for Sweet Gum Balls

Hibiscus Flower

Getting Hibiscus Flowers to Bloom

A large willow tree.

Solutions for a Willow Tree Planted Too Close to a...

A pathway covered in sawdust.

Using Sawdust in Your Garden

A hedgehog nibbling on a mushroom.

Encouraging Hedgehogs in Your Garden

Wood Burning in Fireplace

Uses for Fireplace Ashes

pine trees

Plants and Flowers That Will Grow Under Pine Trees

Blue and pinkish purple morning glory blooms.

Getting Rid of Morning Glory

A person in a wheelchair gardening.

Gardening With a Disability

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Easter Lilies

Caring for Potted Easter Lilies

Trumpet Vine Not Flowering

Trumpet Vine Not Flowering

Scheffelera Outside in Hard Freeze

Avocado Seeds Not Sprouting

ground coffee

Using Coffee Grounds in the Garden

Winterizing a Butterfly Bush

Winterizing a Butterfly Bush

How Many Quarts in a Bushel?

Photo of a beautiful garden on a sloped hill.

Gardening on Slopes

Getting Rid Of Honeysuckle Without Chemicals

What Plant is Also Known as Sheep Shar or Shire?

Plastic Flower Pots

Painting Plastic Flower Pots

Crepe Myrtle Not Blooming

Crepe Myrtle Not Blooming

Rice Water For Plants

Broken Pumpkin Plant Stems

Deer in Garden

Deer Resistant Plants

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Pain from Stepping on Bougainvillea Thorns

Temporary Surface For Under Picnic Table

Puppy in a flower bed.

Creating Flower Beds Where a Dog Previously Peed and Pooped

Harvesting Elderberries

Firethorn Does Not Flower

Close-up view of the iron wire supporting the vine plant.

Make a Trellis Out of an Old Box Spring

Flowering plants at a nursery.

5 Mistakes to Avoid When Shopping for Bedding Plants

Vegetable Garden Growing Young Swiss Chard and Herbs.

Growing Vegetables in the Shade

Protect Ripening Fruit with Newspaper - fruit tree festooned with newspaper wrapped fruit

Protect Ripening Fruit with Newspaper

Garden flowers for sale.

Buying and Transplanting Bedding Plants

Small aloe plant in a green pot.

How to Give an Aloe Plant as a Gift

pile of books in garden.

5 Great Books for Gardeners

Information on a Golden Berry Plant

Information on a Golden Berry Plant

Umbrella in the rain.

Saving Your Garden from Torrential Rain

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The bottom leaves on a sunflower sprout wilting.

Bottom Leaves on Sunflower Sprout Wilting

Honeysuckle flowers on tree

Caring for a Honeysuckle

Euonymus As Foundation Planting - 1 year's growth

Euonymus As Foundation Planting

A mini blind slat with the plant name written on the top.

Using Mini Blinds for Plant Markers

Animal Stole a Blueberry Plant from a Pot

Sweet Gum Tree with sun shining through leaves

Do Sweet Gum Trees Weep Sap?

What Would You Consider an Acid Loving Plant?

Utility pole in a residential area.

Disguising a Utility Pole

Lots of potted plants in large planters filled with tulips and daffodils.

Using Plants to Hide Unattractive Items

Woman on a ladder next to a shrubbery.

Ladder Safety Tips For Gardeners

Tree stump in a yard.

Planting After Removing Pine Trees

Bottle Propagator - plastic bottle with sage cuttings

How to Make a Plastic Bottle Propagator

Small Greenhouse

Planning an Inexpensive Greenhouse

Spider Plants Outdoors

Can a Spider Plant Survive Winter Outdoors?

Couple Tending and Watering in their Garden

Tending Your Garden

Wisteria Vines

Wisteria Vines Won't Flower

Thorny Branch

Picking Up Thorny Branches

Bamboo Stalks

Buying Bamboo Plants

Child and Teacher in School Garden

Starting a School Gardening Project

Woman With Summer Squash Harvest

Summer Squash Not Growing Large

Banana and Tea on a wood surface.

Banana and Tea for Watering Your Plants

Don't Discard Sick Plants Too Hastily - rose recovered from stem rot

Don't Discard Sick Plants Too Hastily

Identifying Bugs on Roses - bug in center of red rose

Identifying Bugs on Roses

Turkey Baster To Transfer Garden Chemicals - turkey baster and garden chemicals in containers

Using Bulk Herbicides and Pesticides

The Long Awaited Wisteria Bloom

Growing Wisteria as a Standard

Close up of a poinsettia plant.

When Do you Bring a Poinsettia Inside for the Winter?

A gardenia bud, not blooming.

Gardenia Not Blooming

Gardenia plant.

Leaves on Gardenia Turning Brown

A melon plant with a yellow blossom.

Hand Pollinating Melons

Watering using a house and sprayer on a sunny day.

The Surprising Facts Behind 10 Gardening Myths

plant rows

Gardening in Small Spaces

Hummingbird Vine

Wintering Hummingbird Vines

Urban gardening

10 Tips for Urban Gardening

A red canna lily.

Canna Lily Leaves Are Ripped

Place Empty Bottles in Garden Pot - planter with plastic bottles in bottom

Fill Planters With Plastic Bottles

Preventing Mud Under Outdoor Faucet

Preventing Mud Under Outdoor Faucet

Woman Buying Plants at Garden Store

Buying Plants Tips and Tricks

tomato suckers

How to Remove Tomato Suckers

Old Panty Hose

Use Old Panty Hose to Tie Up Plants

Juniper

Do Any Plants Smell Like Cat Urine?

Patch of Stinging Nettles

Killing Stinging Nettles

A plastic zipper bag with a seedling inside.

Using Plastic Zipper Bags as Mini Greenhouse

Two goldfish in a tank with green plants.

Uses for Fish Tank Water

Woman Spraying Insecticide on plants

The Right Way To Spray Insecticides and Fungicides

closeup of zip tied plant

Use Zip Ties to Support Plants

Plants with cord wrapped around stem and bamboo stake.

Using Telephone Receiver Cord to Tie Up Plants

A garden bed of orange colored Black-Eyed Susan flowers in bloom.

Drought, Heat, and Cold Tolerant Plants

A rose arbor over a path to a botanical garden.

5 Great Reasons to Visit a Botanical Garden

Transplant Bedding Plants Quickly - river birch and hornbeam

Transplant Bedding Plants Quickly

A hosta with the leaves eaten.

Deer Eating My Hosta Leaves

Growing Tree Form Honeysuckle

Growing a Honeysuckle as Tree

A garden trellis with flowers growing in it.

Choosing the Right Trellis

A calla lily in a garden outside.

Planting a Calla Lily Outside

Building a Frame for Dragon Fruit Tree - simple wooden support frame

Building a Frame for Dragon Fruit Tree

A mole sticking its head out of a mound in a yard.

What is Living Down the Hole in My Garden?

A shoot from a honeysuckle bush.

Honeysuckle Bush Shoots

A creeping charlie with a purple flower.

What is This Plant? Creeping Charlie

Confederate Jasmine

Confederate Jasmine Leaves Turning Brown and Falling Off

A plate and bottle

Protecting Tomato Seedlings

Wear Gardening Gloves For The Unexpected - cut finger

Cutting Pampas Grass

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get the roots

Removing Blackberries Without HerbicidesIn some parts of the country wild blackberries can be very invasive, and difficult to get rid of without chemicals. This is a guide about removing blackberries without herbicides.

air plant in container

Caring for an Air PlantThis is a guide about caring for an air plant. If you have a location with bright indirect light you might want to try growing an air plant. They are fairly easy to care for.

A cutting of corkscrew vine (vigna carcalla) in a glass.

Overwintering Corkscrew Vine (Vigna Caracalla)Some friends have expressed an interest in growing Vigna Caracalla outside and overwintering them inside. I have a tip or two on that subject. These vines are perennials in their native Central American and tropical South American climes. In temperate regions, they require winter protection when grown as perennials.

gloves on table

Homemade Blackberry Pulling GlovesThis is a guide about making homemade blackberry pulling gloves. Removing blackberry plants manually can leave you with lots of thorns in your hands unless you protect them well.

Monarch butterfly on orange flower.

How to Attract ButterfliesButterflies are welcome visitors to the garden. There are various ways to attract these delicate beauties. This guide is about how to attract butterflies.

Corkscrew Vine Bloom Time - flowers beginning to bloom

Corkscrew Vine Bloom TimeI've gotten some private messages asking for further information on the corkscrew vine (Vigna Caracalla). I'm making this post so all who are interested can share this information.

Videos

Homemade Blackberry GlovesWe are constantly battling blackberries in our yard.

Removing BlackberriesTackling blackberries is a pain in more than one way.

Questions

Growing Violas - mostly purple and yellow violas

Growing ViolasI would like to know what to do with violas once they become scraggy? They have been beautiful all winter, but not now that summer is here, is it best to pull them out and plant new in spring?

Scum Forming on Water Line in Plant Container - scum on glass at water line

Scum Forming on Water Line in Plant ContainerI have been growing plants in bottled water for over fifty years. Recently we installed a whole house water filter and I now have a rim of scum (?) on the top edge of the water and on the container. The containers are cleaned thoroughly and the water is changed every month.

Saving an Underwatered Christmas CactusI stopped watering my Christmas cactus for a long time (a couple of months?) and now the leaves are dark red and it isn't growing. Is there any hope that it is still alive?

Accidental Tomato Garden Where Dogs PottyMy backyard has, through no effort on my part, yielded a giant tomato plant. There are tons of healthy tomatoes. However, my dogs go to the bathroom out there (probably why it grew). If I wash thoroughly, are the tomatoes safe to eat?

Black Eyed Susan Vine Stopped BloomimgI have a beautiful black eyed Susan vine. It has stopped blooming. What have I done? I water it and make sure it gets afternoon shade. I have been removing seeds as they appear. Should I be doing something else?

Buying Gourd SeedsWhere can I buy gourd seeds to grow for myself?

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