Are Last Year’s Seeds Still Good?
Most gardeners store their leftover garden seeds for another year… or two years. Or three. But how many years canContinue Reading
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Root Mealybugs: Death From Below
You thought that no houseplant pest could be worse than the common mealybug? That just goes to show that youContinue Reading
How to Read Plant Catalogs
I confess to being a total plant catalog nut… and I’m happily inundated by them right now. Some still come byContinue Reading
Help! My Orchid is Losing its Leaves!
Question: The leaves of my orchid are turning yellow and falling off. Is it dying? Ludivine Answer: Not necessarily. It’sContinue Reading
Choose a Pesticide With the Narrowest Possible Spectrum
The ideal pesticide would be the one with an extremely narrow spectrum, acting on only one enemy and nothing else.Continue Reading
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Stabilized Plants: Death Becomes Them
I first heard of stabilized plants over 30 years ago. At that time, a local company was importing “stabilized bonsais”Continue Reading
The Amazing Maze-Running Spud
Here is a little project you might want to do with your kids or grandkids on a snowy or rainyContinue Reading
Good Fungi Fight Bad Fungi
The importance of beneficial mycorrhizal fungi, or mychorrhizae, to plant growth is fairly well known. (If this is a newContinue Reading
Grow Your Own Coleus Tree
Here is a DIY project for a laidback (because it requires little effort) but patient gardener (because it takes 18Continue Reading
Another Useless Garden Tool
Sometimes tool designers just don’t understand gardeners. They come up with all sorts of devices that look good, but when youContinue Reading