Are you one of the many people who have discovered how relaxing and soothing gardening can be? Horticultural hobbies are enjoyed not only in warmer months, but commonly throughout most of the year. However, while you are planning to create […]
Pool Landscape Design Tips: Transform Your Backyard into a Summer Oasis
Landscaping a pool area is a unique challenge for everyone, just like the design of each home and garden. However, when it comes to selecting pool landscape plants, there are some universal considerations to keep in mind, such as maintenance […]
Watering trees and shrubs
Trees and shrubs need moist, but not thoroughly wet, soil in order to grow well, resist insects and winter injury, and, in some cases, to produce flowers and fruit. If fruiting plants fail to fruit, or produce few fruit, it […]
Helping lawns deal with drought
With a changing climate, droughts seem to be getting more frequent and sometimes of a longer duration. Proper mowing, watering, and fertilizing are some of the strategies you can use to help a lawn deal with droughts and to survive. […]
Garden Strawberry Planting and Care
The Strawberry is our most widely cultivated small fruit. In suitable varieties it is grown in every state, much of Canada, except the coldest regions, and even in the milder parts of Alaska. It is grown extensively commercially in widely […]
Hand-Pollinating Pumpkin Plants
PROBLEM: My pumpkins keep flowering and setting fruit, but the fruits (pumpkins) keep withering up when they are an inch or two long. I’ve tried putting wood under them, thinking they were rotting, but that hasn’t worked. Now I am wondering […]
Porky Pumpkins Tip Scales at 1000-Plus Pounds
Web Alert: Porky Pumpkins Tip Scales at 1000-Plus Pounds By NANCY STEDMAN & STEVE DITLEA October 11, 1996 To the four-minute mile and the eight-foot high jump, add yet another legendary performance barrier, shattered just last Saturday: the 1,000-pound pumpkin. Paula […]
How to Compost Feed Your Pumpkin
Compost Feeding Your Pumpkin (supplement) – by George Brooks(Note: Click on the small images to view a 400×296 image) The first Stage of Pumpkin Mound building, broad tapered sides are formed to capture the Spring sunshine. Next, an area […]
Direct Start Method of Pumpkin Growing
I first developed this method approximately nineteen years ago for growing squash and have been refining it ever since. It is intended to produce the largest vine possible (12’+) by the ideal fruit setting date of June 20 to July […]
Compost Feeding Your Pumpkin
Compost Feeding Your Pumpkin – by George Brooks This article was originally written for a September time frame especially the Compost Section. Keep this in mind and adapt it to what ever time of year you are starting. Start planning […]