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Gifts ideas for gardeners – Garden Finders
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Plant a Garden Today! Gifts ideas for gardeners. With Christmas a month away, it’s time to start picking out the perfect gifts for the people you love. While winter winds and swirling snow have most of us thinking about just staying warm, serious green thumbs are probably already counting down the days until they can get their first plants into the ground. If you have a serious gardener on your Christmas shopping list, here are some great gift ideas. Nature Hills Nursery Weekly Specials. Lasagna gardenin...
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Gardening: Getting them dang seeds – Garden Finders
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Plant a Garden Today! Gardening: Getting them dang seeds. First have to remove them from whatever vegetable, fruit, flower or herb you want to save. But how you effectively and efficiently remove seed isn’t always obvious. Or easy. Sometimes you have to get a bit creative. Eggplant is a perfect example. Removing seed from eggplant is not an easy thing to do by hand, not like peppers or tomatoes. The seeds are tiny and imbedded in the thick flesh. Could you do it manually? How they garden in Sicily. Deadl...
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How they garden in Sicily – Garden Finders
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Plant a Garden Today! How they garden in Sicily. Winter evenings are made for garden scheming and dreaming. Here, find a few ideas to steal from a recent tour of Sicily, a sun-drenched island sitting off the south toe of Italy. I recently went to Sicily “off the beaten path” and discovered a culture rich in history, wine and olive oil, and a slower pace of life based on outdoor living and dining. Here is some stuff I learned. 2 Add color with paint, tile and garden art. Gardeners in warm climates have al...
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The best of the garden and what to do now – Garden Finders
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Plant a Garden Today! The best of the garden and what to do now. This month is a good time to sow peppers in a heated propagator or on a windowsill indoors at a temperature of 21-27C (70-80F), to give them a head start for summer. When large enough to handle, the seedlings can be pricked out and potted on to individual small pots to grow at 16-19C (60-65F). Harden them off carefully as peppers are extremely frost sensitive. Greenland Gardener 8-Inch Raised Bed Double Garden Kit. Check seedlings growing i...
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Deadly Mimosa Tree – it can kill you! – Garden Finders
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Plant a Garden Today! Deadly Mimosa Tree – it can kill you! They can kill you! Kill you with super deals. Mimosa trees. Bloom through the summer and their unique flowers attract hummingbirds and butterflies. Many people are attracted to the tree for it's fragrance, which some describe the scent similar to nutmeg. You can’t go wrong with the Mimosa Tree for its fast-growing nature and year-round appeal. I guess that also calms the mind and spirit! Find out more about the Mimosa tree. Answers to your garde...
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Want to talk? Get a Hanging Garden – Garden Finders
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Plant a Garden Today! Get a Hanging Garden. Epiphytes open up a fascinating world to gardening. Characterized by their ability to anchor themselves on a support system, their natural growing habit allows for unique design opportunities. Precariously mounted or suspended indoors, they add greenery and make a unique conversation piece in your home. Epiphytes include a wide range of plants. We have come to know and love airplants. Vertical Gardening: Grow Up, Not Out. Tillandsias (air plants) make up one of...
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Give your Gardener a Gift – Garden Finders
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Plant a Garden Today! Give your Gardener a Gift. The best gifts reflect your personal knowledge of the recipient, so take a moment to think about what would please this person the most. For our region, look for books with titles including the words “Texas” or at least “Southwest gardening.” My all-time favorite is “ Doug Welsh's Texas Garden Almanac. Rdquo; This book includes a month-by-month to-do list. Buy a package of three-hole typing paper. Put some of this paper in the journal between the album...
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Sustainable Backyard Tour shows off organic gardening – Garden Finders
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Plant a Garden Today! Sustainable Backyard Tour shows off organic gardening. Mark Kuechenmeister’s rain barrel collected 55 gallons of rainwater in the last few days of storms. His backyard rain gauge measured 0.78 of an inch just on Saturday night. Ldquo;I haven’t had to water the garden at all this year because of all the rain,” Kuechenmeister said. Time To Prune Gardenias And Hydrangeas. The best of the garden and what to do now. Answers to your gardening questions. Your Garden could use Greywater.
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Help! Your Garden could use Greywater – Garden Finders
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Plant a Garden Today! Your Garden could use Greywater. Now that solar panels are so commonplace on rooftops across the country, reusing so-called greywater—that is, the waste water from sinks, showers, tubs and washing machines—for landscape irrigation may be the next frontier in the greening of the American home, especially if you live in an arid region where water use is restricted. Capturing and reusing greywater can also be part of the battle against climate change, given that you'll be helping ...
