By Darcy Logan
If you want a more sustainable garden, or if you simply want to learn how to grow your own variety of vegetables, then you need to learn how to save vegetable seeds. Vegetable seeds, once harvested, will be viable for several years if they are stored properly. Learn some basic guidelines about how to save seeds as well as how to harvest seeds from tomatoes, beans, peas, lettuce and peppers. While ...
By Lesley Barker
Shasta daisies bloom in the middle of the summer. Their familiar white petals encircle a bright yellow center to make an orb that is 3 or 4 inches in diameter on top of a 2-foot-high stem. While you can treat them like biennials and allow them to re-seed themselves in the garden, your daisies are more likely to thrive if you propagate them by transplanting them after thinning them. You can do...
By Lesley Barker
Geraniums bloom red, pink, white and orange. Some varieties are scented, like the rose geranium, and produce leaves from which a fragrant tisane can be brewed. The plants thrive in sunny areas with well-drained, average soil. They cannot winter over outside in the garden, but they can be coaxed to produce new plants from cuttings which can be transplanted into the garden after all danger of frost ...
By David Lessem
Most plants need nitrogen, potassium, phosphorous and traces of other minerals from the soil in order to thrive. Particularly in the spring, plants need to use nitrogen to grow new blooms. Although all these elements are naturally present in the soil, their proportion varies. Plants grown in poor soil will grow sluggishly and may not bloom or seed well. To combat this, many growers apply...
By Nannette Richford
Hardy hibiscus blooms from early summer until late fall, when it is killed by frost. This shrub-like plant grows rapidly, reaching a height of several feet, and produces large, showy blooms in a wide range of colors. Although blooms generally range from 3 to 4 inches in diameter, some cultivars produce giant, dinner-plate-size blooms. An herbaceous pant that dies back to the ground in the winter, ...